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HONOLULU – A multi-agency effort to eradicate a coqui frog infestation in a remote mountain area of Waimanalo will use aerial application of a citric acid solution, a formula that has been successful in controlling and eradicating coqui in Hawai`i. The aerial application via helicopter is scheduled for Wednesday, April 20,...

via News-Press Now Floyd McElwain has been helping Midwest farmers prepare their harvests for more than 40 years. He is the founder of McElwain Sprayers, an aerial service that drops fungicide and even seeds on farmland. The “crop dusters” airplane wheels are sometimes only a few feet above the ground,...

via Daily Journal David Kurtz looked out his office at Benoit Aerial Spraying located east of Kankakee and pointed to a part of one of the company’s two grass runways. “You see that the grass is starting to green up,” Kutz said. “In a couple of weeks, winter wheat will...

Via KCCR Radio Online The South Dakota Aeronautics Commission has approved a letter of comment relating to the North Bend Wind Farm. The North Bend project is proposed for an area along the Hughes and Hyde County line near land owned by Michael and Judi Bollweg. Aeronautics Commission Chair Eric...

Opponents of the agriculture industry, particularly those against livestock, always use the term “factory farm” to scare consumers. What exactly would a ‘factory’ type of farm even look like? Some would picture a dreary place that doesn’t care and that’s certainly not what you’d see on the millions of farms...

Safety experts agree that at least 70% of aviation accidents are attributable to the pilot. NASA scientists report that most accidents result from some failure in the pilot’s cognitive performance, with distractions and errors in aeronautical decision making (ADM) most prominent. For example, when a pilot decides to launch into...

Adapted from the TAAA April 1, 2022 Newsletter TAAA held its Spring Board Meeting in Wichita Falls and Olney in early March 2022.  The meeting was very well attended and was one of the best meetings TAAA has hosted in quite a while. Paul Bruton, 2022 TAAA President (above) TAAA...

Sourced from NAAA via FAA. The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Bell Textron Canada Model 206L, 206L-1, 206L-3 and 206L-4 helicopters with a certain part-numbered main rotor (M/R) blade installed under Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) SR02684LA. This proposed AD was prompted by delamination of M/R...

On March 22, 2022, James Howard "Jimmy" Vreeland peacefully took his final flight home. He was born on November 27, 1943, in Milford, Del. to the late Howard and Mary Vreeland. Jimmy was a graduate of Milford High School, class of 1961. At the young age of 15, Jimmy found...

Lyle Younglove, the founder of R&R Flight Service, found his passion for flying in the early 1960s, in 1978 he saw a need to help the local farmers and started the Ag part of R&R Flight Service. He was a lifelong member of the NAAA and the Illinois Agriculture Aviation...