Does this qualify...
May 17, 2020 19:23:15 #
Raybo
Loc: George Town, Grand Cayman
as a bird in flight?
It's finally started raining a bit, and with that comes the mosquitos...and lots of them. The government has a Mosquito Research and Control Unit (MRCU) dedicated to their eradication...or at least reduction. This guy has been out every day the wind has been under about 15 knots spraying. Last few days his flight path has been pretty close to the house. This was taken in the backyard.
If you look close, the funny little marking just above the wing are mosquito "kill symbols"...
Going to keep trying to get one of him looking out the window
It's finally started raining a bit, and with that comes the mosquitos...and lots of them. The government has a Mosquito Research and Control Unit (MRCU) dedicated to their eradication...or at least reduction. This guy has been out every day the wind has been under about 15 knots spraying. Last few days his flight path has been pretty close to the house. This was taken in the backyard.
If you look close, the funny little marking just above the wing are mosquito "kill symbols"...
Going to keep trying to get one of him looking out the window
May 17, 2020 19:30:28 #
May 17, 2020 21:13:55 #
May 17, 2020 21:42:53 #
Clyde 13 wrote:
I wonder if this was a crop duster airplane .
Sure does look like one. We had several of them in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas but they all tangled with high line wires and were killed. Now the ones that are still spraying have moved to helicopters, seems to be working out better for them.
May 18, 2020 07:59:46 #
May 18, 2020 09:03:18 #
Raybo
Loc: George Town, Grand Cayman
Clyde 13 wrote:
I wonder if this was a crop duster airplane .
Yes...its an Ayres Thrush. Not sure which version. The dispersion mechanism on the bottom is quite a bit different than the ones they used in Nebraska where I grew up, but I've heard they use a pellet/granule type product as opposed to liquid. Given the persistent wind we have here, and the fact that he really can't fly as low as a crop duster, that kind of makes sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayres_Thrush
http://blog.covingtonaircraft.com/2018/10/05/a-look-at-the-ayres-thrush-s2r-series/
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