"His dives were like something out of a war movie," a plane spotter commented on Facebook when querying what the mystery plane was flying "aggressively'" over Kirwee recently.
The plane was not, however, one of the Royal New Zealand Airforce Black Falcons.
The distinctive yellow aircraft was an Air Tractor 504 topdressing plane, and the pilot was Skyfarmer Aviation's Duncan Hart from Methven.
Hart says that although his antics in the sky might look like reckless aerobatics, that couldn't be further from the truth.
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