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Embraer has announced that it is beginning the first flight test campaign for its all-electric demonstrator aircraft. According to the company, early flights will primarily be evaluating the aircraft’s power, performance, control, thermal management and operational safety. Testing will take place at Embraer’s Gavião Peixoto facility in São Paulo, Brazil....

A broad coalition of aviation interests has issued a manifesto opposing the proposed loss of a 30-year exemption from Brazilian import duties and several other VAT-type assessments, which would raise the industry’s tax burden by an estimated $955 million. A legislative committee added the change to a broad tax reform...

Broadacre farmers in Western Australia's grain belt are facing lengthy delays for crop-dusting services, sparking "desperation" amid concern that crops will suffer in a year with record production potential. Pilots say they are racing to clear up to four weeks of work spraying and fertilising paddocks, due to unprecedented demand...

  What started out as a small two-person experiment in 1921 in Ohio is now a multibillion-dollar industry with 1,200-horsepower, turbine-engine airplanes, treating more than 127 million acres of U.S. cropland each year. The agricultural aviation industry gathered at Virginia’s Leesburg Executive Airport on August 3 to mark a century...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of aerial application! Reed Keahey was practically born into the pilot seat. "We're like the doctors for the crops. We get a prescription from our entomologists and then we treat the crops for insecticide, fungicide, and also some glyphosate," Keahey explains. Reed's father, Drew, started...

While the majority of pilots in the ag industry have moved away from using a headset while flying; seeing the benefits of wearing a protective helmet and often spending thousands of dollars to purchase one, there is another area of safe operation that doesn't get the same consideration - wearing...

With residents voicing concerns regarding Tiny's handling of this summer's gypsy moth infestation, council requested that an expert be brought in to provide some insight as to what aerial spraying is, and what the township can do going forward. Paul Zimmer, president and operations manager of Zimmer Air Services Inc., declared to council...

I was working out in my garden last summer when a bright yellow airplane started flying overhead. My subdivision, which used to be a strawberry patch, is surrounded by corn and soybean fields. I watched as the plane would sweep across the nearby field, precisely spraying the corn crop before turning...

Air Tractor joins the National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, from July 26 – Aug. 1 to mark the 100th anniversary of ag aviation at this year’s EAA AirVenture Air Show. “We are excited to return once again to Oshkosh with our friends from NAAA after so many...

KENANSVILLE — Aug. 3, 2021, will mark a special milestone as we reach 100 years of Agriculture Aviation and remember pioneers such as US Army pilot John Macready, who made the first aerial application during an experimental flight on a Curtiss JN-6 “Super Jenny,” in 1921. The development of the...