I Do Love this video...my Dad and Husband were 'Crop Dusters" and they retired in their late 70's!!!

An incredible aircraft flown by an outstanding pilot. When I was 12 years old (1977) my family moved to a rural area of NJ. Being an airplane fan I found a local cropdusting strip a mile and a half from my house and would religiously bike there every morning at 6am to watch and learn the craft of those men that plied the trade. I wanted to do the same. Health and other pursuits dictated otherwise. But I still envy those that do so.

To all you younger viewers, this is the result of a man who has taken care of his health and has fantastic dustin' skills. Some guys are done at 50 yet this man at 70 - when this video was taken - proves the value of a job that you love. I would love to sit and chat with this pilot about his close calls. I'll bet he has some doozys! Got to stay active....

Phenomenal talent involved to do this everyday without accidents.

Outstanding video, no ridiculous music, just the sound of that beautiful airplane, well done.

Best pilots ever known 👍👋👏👍🙏👍

This pilot is better than great, credit to the Air Tractor too of course !!

My congratulations to this senior-aged pilot who demonstrates fantastic flying skills!!!

Wow. This guys incredible. It's like there's a magnetic force between him and the ground. So accurate. ....and the sound of the turbo prop. My goodness sounds so awesome.

Jealoooooous!! Awesome flying!!

The fast turning 3 blade wakes up the neighborhood! "Goooood morning"!

4:53 the best sound on a summer morning

Most of the 3000 ag pilots working in America right now are getting up in their 60s and 70s .They just are not being replaced by younger pilots

Good old PT 6 one of the best turboprop engines ever built right here in Canada ! Awesome flying I have 4500 + hours in my log book so I can surely appreciate the skill of the pilot !~

Love how this guy follows NOE. Very talented pilot.

70 years young! Great flying Oom!

Impressive! Very beautiful and challenging work👍👍👍

From 4:26 to 4:45 is simply beautiful. The pilot makes it look so simple, but it is a devilishly complicated and dangerous maneuver. My congratulations to that 70 year old genius!!!! Greetings from Argentina !

God, I want to do this! If I could get my medical back this is how I’d support my family.

I loved watching crop dusters when I was a kid in the Mississippi delta. We never used them on our farm. We just did our spraying with tractors.

Reminds me when I was a kid, and these cropdusters came around the farms around our neighbourhood. Sometimes these planes seemed to almost touch the trees around the agricultural fields they were spraying. Hope this pilot is still flying.

perfect AUDIO!!! Thanks!

5:40, best part of the vid! A rainbow, how he goes behind the hill, vortexes and how he works perfectly with the ground surface... Amazing!

This pilot is Awesome ! I've wanted to do this since I was a child .. outstanding Howdy from Texas

Wow, inspecting the runway, not sure i would even consider that a road. Great flying!

This is great to see. My grandpa got his private at 72 😂

Love the condensation ring from prop tips on take off!

All the man needs is a Thrush 510 and he'd be in business.

The place where I fly gliders has one of these as the tow plane. Quite rugged. They have supports for the wings going from just below the cockpit to about 1/3 the way out the wing. I have seen a pilot go over the fence, about 15 feet above the road, under the telephone wires, up and do a hammerhead stall, flip the plane 180 degrees, fly back under the wires, across the road, over the 6 ft high fence and start spraying.

My god este piloto tiene 70 años increible pero vuela este avion con mucha avilidad como un piloto muy joven excelente video con su sonido original👏👏👏👏👏

You can see the experience very disciplined flying...it showed like he was on rails or something. Great prop sound as well it added to the aviance...

He is one excellent pilot

Always wanted to do that growing up watching them spraying crops growing in that black gold soil in Bele Glade,fla. Never learned to fly but airplanes have been in my blood since I was a toddler. At 62 I still build r/c planes that will never be flown. Just as I have an affection for whitetail antlers and surf boards. All 3 are just beauties to behold. I could fall asleep w either one of those 3 things sitting on my lap.

Don't need any music if you have a turbine to listen to ! Best sound there is. And of course that of a radial....

Very nice. Awesome tractor, the pilot is an artist, and the scenery is beautiful. Thank you for posting.

Great flying - keeps you young

Some mighty DAMNED good flying

Amazing. His maneuvers could still have had some "Gs" in them.. At his age, I envy and congratulate him.

The sound you hear on take off is mostly the prop not the engine! The PT-6's are fairly quiet! Our first turbine was a 402, They are real work horses!

Super flying skills. Keep sharp. 70 is getting up there for this stuff.

No reverse when lands...thats a pro my respect...

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perfect video, i love it

Best job in the world... fly fast, aim low!

Looks just like Arizona 😊

man thats a cool looking plane

Awesome... and bless the old feller's heart!

Man, those passes were buttery.

MR. Young by my houes was the same age 70 years old his plane was not a Turbin but it had a Pratt & Whitney 1340 Radial I would allways watch him working that old plane when I was a kid till I was about 33 years old he was out working seeding a rice field down the Miller Lake road I was out there filming him with my camera he made a full passes on the sixed pass he started making a turn and the plane just made a nose dive strate into the ground in the rice field all could say was O MY GOD O MY GOD running to the plane crash when I got there got on the plane to help him his face was all busted up bleeding took my shirt off to put on his forehead to stop the bleeding and he just died right there in my hands I found out three days later that it was a heart attack that was the cause of plane crash may you RIP MR. Young.

And that is not even the biggest; they make an 802. They had an airport in my area where they serviced them for a time and those things are enormous. A friend had a crop dusting service next to one of our farms and it was fairly small compared to them. We lease our farm lands out now and they are sprayed, but I can't really tell the models; amazing to watch. I am old enough to remember bi-planes and a guy with a stick and rag marking each pass for the pilot.

Dit is ons land se beste pilots

Thank you for the nice video, that bird sounded beautiful.

Absolutely amazing 👏 !!!!

This PILOT is definitely ahead of this bird!

one of the best engines

that some serious terrain hugging

I like sound turbo pro engine

Poetry in Motion. He has GOD as his co-pilot.

WOW.. a 10' wide airplane on a 12' road and centered...............good job !

Aplausos para los huevitos de estos pilotos !

It's almost like he's using a 'terrain following' kit in it, the way he's hugging the ground.

БРАВО👍🔊🌐💞🌺🎈

Looks like Dusty is a real farmer.

I AM ONLY 73 AND 3000 HOURS FLYING AGRO AN-2 AND MI-2 ALSO IN AFRICA EGIPT AND ETHIOPIA. MY SKILS HAVE NOT EQUAL.

Wow. He is following the terrain variations like it was computer controlled but it is not. Great to watch.

THANKS

I always love this part 06:38

The new aged pilots address themselves as an “802 pilot” indicating they aren’t capable of flying anything smaller. 😂

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Retired military ace? I think so! Mad skills like no other.....

Dream job.

As they used to say in the Royal Air Force, "A good landing is one that you can walk away from."

That's the way we boomers roll. LOL

Nice

I sure do miss the legendary Ag Cat with 600HP Radial engine

That air frame is to nice to be called an "Air Tractor", something like Farm Fighter would be more suitable I think.

The last takeoff I can see how much right Rudder he had to give it to compensate for the torque of the engine

When that aircraft is unladen the power/weight ratio must be laughable.

Well done . airstrip

If you like this vid, check out Scott Palmer on youtube. He flies these and makes some sick vids of the flights, on board, etc. Crazy how few guys getting into flying realize how many awesome jobs there are out there, as a pilot...at least I didn't. In generally you just think of airlines and corporate, flight schools, etc. Hunting, sightseeing, skydive schools, agriculture especially....some real cool jobs out there flying.

Q buena avioneta caray

Real Pilot, not a bus driver.

I don't understand what's so skilled about him. It flies 4m above the field. I should come to Argentina where and see how to fly at a height of 1 meter at most.

0:26 The real life version of Dusty Crophopper is here.

Nice following contures of field and missing trees and wires

Well apparently there are old and bold pilots

0:48 Dusty is coming in for a landing.

My dream job for me

70 ain’t that old, he’s still got another 20+ years of flying

Better get some fifties mounted on those wings times are changing.

Meu sonho e ser um piloto

Now that is true CC chasing cows flying

I appreciate the footage, but I wouldn’t want to be the one out there holding the camera and getting sprayed lol

Wow

I want to fly this air tractor..

We have a lot of cropdusters here in South Texas. With our fields close to the house we get to experience this often. By the way, I always assumed South Africa to be flat. What mountains are those??

He must have good vision to escape electrical wire.

Git er done

I want to do this so bad

Watch out for birds!