The R550 Sprayhawk can carry up to 110 gal. of payload and cover more than 200 acres per hour. Credit: Rotor Technologies Brazilian civil aviation regulator ANAC has approved the use of uncrewed ...

Summer skies fill with planes and helicopters in rural Illinois every summer as corn and soybean fields need crop protection. However, the risk to aerial applicators was magnified last month with four ...

Modern agricultural aviation is a high-tech and vital industry, relying on highly skilled ag pilots and advanced aircraft equipped with GPS and specialized software to precisely apply products, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of the July 22, 2024, crop duster accident site facing west with the field being sprayed in the background. The ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 17—GRAND FORKS — Eight months after 33-year-old Tylor Lee Johnson died in a Grand Forks County agricultural aircraft crash, ...

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 ...

Wreckage of a spray plane is seen in a cornfield southeast of Ardoch, North Dakota, early Tuesday evening, Sept. 12, 2023. GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. — The fatal agricultural aircraft crash in northern ...