Aerial topdressing is the aerial application of fertilisers over farmland using agricultural aircraft. It was developed in New Zealand in the 1940s and...
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of seed are also included in aerial application. The specific spreading of fertilizer is also known as aerial topdressing in some countries. Many countries...
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converted for agricultural use – usually aerial application of pesticides (crop dusting) or fertilizer (aerial topdressing); in these roles, they are referred...
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Being one of the first aircraft designed for aerial topdressing, the Fletcher has also been used for other aerial applications as a utility aircraft, and for...
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commercially unsuccessful British agricultural aircraft designed for the aerial topdressing market which opened up in New Zealand in the early 1950s. Constructed...
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utility roles, such as cargo and passenger hauling, aerial application (crop dusting and aerial topdressing), and civil aviation duties. Shortly after the...
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derivative of the Fletcher FU-24 (later called the PAC Fletcher) aerial topdressing aircraft, manufactured by the Pacific Aerospace Corporation in Hamilton...
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Canada during the type's wartime years. After the development of aerial topdressing in New Zealand, large numbers of ex-Royal New Zealand Air Force Tiger...
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former NASA Jet Propulsion Lab director Alan Prichard – pioneer of aerial topdressing Bill Robinson – inventor of the lead rubber bearing used for seismic...
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overseas in 1951/52, six more were later imported and converted for aerial topdressing. A single Lodestar served with the Israeli Air Force during the 1948...
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