LAFAYETTE, Ind. ― Robert Ray Cottingham took off in his crop duster from an Attica airport about 5:40 p.m. July 22. He had about 50 minutes left to live, according to a preliminary report from the ...

WEBBERS FALLS, Okla. -- Paul Gould is a pilot in a career that could be flying into the sunset. His dad was a crop-duster; he didn't want the same for his son. But Paul loved the work too much. Still ...

Aerial application of pesticides, or crop dusting, is a crucial part of modern agriculture, increasing crop yields and reducing losses by billions of dollars annually. The job of an ag pilot is ...

YUMA — The crop-duster, that icon of both aviation and agricultural history, brings several images to mind. There's the wild-eyed barnstormer in a biplane who buzzes in low over houses and onto the ...

Crop dusters — or aerial applicators, which is their official name — also say they need thick skin to cope with what they call misinformation against their businesses. Environmentalists peg them as ...

A southern NSW farming family has been awarded more than $673,000 in damages after a court found two crop-dusting companies ...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Stephen Austin's job has been up and down since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. On Monday it was down. He and other Bootheel crop-dusters, along with their counterparts nationwide, ...

Top Gun undoubtedly had some of the best air-to-air combat scenes ever put on film, but watching crop duster pilot Butch Fisher skim this field and then barely pull up in time to miss a towering tree ...

The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office received a call Saturday morning shortly after 9:00 a.m. about a crop duster crash.It happened near E. Airline Highway and Oswald Avenue in a field ...

Amid renewed fears that terrorists might wage chemical attacks, authorities grounded crop-dusting planes for a second day yesterday -- causing concerns among California farmers who could lose millions ...