Click to open image viewer. The Huff-Daland Duster was designed in 1925 for a new method of controlling agricultural insect pests, aerial crop dusting. The Huff-Daland Manufacturing Company modified ...
Morris Plains, NJ, May 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Low-flying aircraft spraying a fine mist over fields has long been a common sight in aerial crop management. Developed in the early 20th century, so ...
Modern agricultural aviation is vital for crop yield and pest control, relying on highly skilled ag pilots who execute precise, low-altitude aerial applications over millions of acres. Today's crop ...
Rotor Technologies is working through regulatory approval of a remotely piloted helicopter based on Robinson Helicopter’s R44, with hopes of tapping into the aerial crop-dusting market. Unmanned ...
MALTA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wright Electric and Axter Aerospace, leading innovators in electric aircraft technology, are thrilled to announce the successful completion of the maiden flights of their ...
Crop dusting planes are a key tool for keeping banana plantations free from pests, but the practice causes significant environmental and climate damage. A small but growing number of plantations are ...
Guardian’s SC1 aerial-application eVTOL can cover 40 acres/hr. Credit: Guardian Massachusetts-based startup Guardian, which is developing an unmanned electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) crop ...
Deliveries of the Pyka Pelican 2 UAV to Brazil are to begin in August 2025. Credit: Pyka Pyka has won a firm order for 60 autonomous crop duster aircraft to be sold to a Brazilian distributor. The ...
Until I heard from Carlos Gomez, I hadn’t given much thought to agricultural aviation, more commonly known as crop dusting, and its relation to the South Bay. Gomez mentioned his father Antonio once ...