Growing up in rural Colorado, crop dusters have been a part of every summer. Watching and hearing them as a boy is where the spark and love of aviation was birthed in me. Check out the cool smoke puff coming from the engine exhaust in the photo above. Oil is introduced into the exhaust pipe to make smoke and tell the pilot which way the wind is blowing.
You can't be a crop duster for long without good stick and rudder skills. The effortless ability that they display making 180 turns back and forth over the field makes me strive to continue to be a better stick and rudder pilot.
I might have gotten a little bit of fungicide on me as this aircraft passed over me. But it was worth it, and the potatoes liked it too.
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