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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aerial topdressing. Maber, John (24 November 2008). "Topdressing – Origins of aerial topdressing". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved...
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Industrial Technology in Japan. The wing design of the Fletcher FU-24 aerial topdressing plane was loosely based on that of the FD-25 Defender. Almost 300...
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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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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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OBE (11 February 1896 – 29 May 1981) was a New Zealand farmer and aerial-topdressing operator. He was born in Gisborne, New Zealand on 11 February 1896...
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Pacific Fleet. In 1945, Avengers were involved in pioneering trials of aerial topdressing in New Zealand that led to the establishment of an industry which...
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served several other roles, being adapted for—amongst other things—aerial topdressing experiments, although to avoid competition with private enterprise...
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in various roles within the civil market, such as air racing and aerial topdressing. Approaches were also made by Miles to introduce the Whitney Straight...
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World War II making use of war surplus planes and ex WW2 pilots for aerial topdressing. The cobalt was mixed with crushed phosphate rock which was obtained...
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was established as part of No. 41 Squadron to conduct experimental aerial topdressing flights using Grumman Avenger aircraft. In mid-1948 three No. 41 Squadron...
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TBF Avengers flown by 42 Squadron pilots were involved in the first aerial topdressing trials carried out in the world, spreading superphosphate fertiliser...
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market for a de Havilland Tiger Moth replacement in New Zealand's Aerial Topdressing industry. From the outset it was intended that a ½-scale model of...
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Squadron received P-3B Orions in 1965. A research flight helped develop Aerial Topdressing.[citation needed] In 1957, the Territorial Air Force (TAF) was formally...
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Arthur Coningham (RAF officer) There had been some experiments with aerial topdressing in the 1930s and these continued after the war. By the early 1950s...
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Zealand and Fiji. Returning to civilian life in 1954, he set up an aerial topdressing company and later undertook conservation work. He died in 2006, aged...
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a replacement for the de Havilland Tiger Moth in the New Zealand aerial topdressing market by Luigi Pellarini for Waitomo Aircraft. The prototype was...
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popular with gliding over the next few years, as a base for local aerial topdressing aircraft operations, and skydiving. Lighting: Nil Fuel: Air BP Avgas...
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crawler tractor, and then oversowing with swedes. In 1951 he began aerial topdressing his farm with a war-surplus Tiger Moth. (Moss 1956) This project expanded...
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which had previously been unsuitable due to low phosphate levels, but aerial topdressing made the land economic. About 2.5 km northwest of the centre of Cooks...
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Aerodrome continued to be used as the local airport with flightseeing, aerial topdressing, and helicopter operations based there. The airport was managed by...
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1950s, Wigley also encouraged the company to involve itself in the aerial topdressing businesses, and on 22 September 1955 he successfully landed on the...
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Fletcher Aviation. Thorp T-15 - 1952 FU-24, agricultural aircraft for Aerial Topdressing market, prototype built by Fletcher Aviation, large scale production...
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