Mid-air in New Zealand

[george]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3567413a10,00.html

[Jim Logajan]

"george" > wrote:
> http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3567413a10,00.html

Pretty crowded skies: no less than four aircraft involved. First a near
miss with a helicopter, then a collision of the two planes at 450 meter
altitude, and the wreckage raining down in front of a "top-dressing plane
[flying] just metres above the ground."

What's a "top-dressing plane?"

[jwilljr]

Jim Logajan wrote:
> "george" > wrote:
>
>>http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3567413a10,00.html
>
>
> Pretty crowded skies: no less than four aircraft involved. First a near
> miss with a helicopter, then a collision of the two planes at 450 meter
> altitude, and the wreckage raining down in front of a "top-dressing plane
> [flying] just metres above the ground."
>
> What's a "top-dressing plane?"

Crop Duster

[Gene Seibel]

A very fast crop duster - 150 meters in less than a second - 291 knots.
--
Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.

[george]

Gene Seibel wrote:
> A very fast crop duster - 150 meters in less than a second - 291 knots.

Yeeah right. :-)
around 95-120 knots might be a little more accurate..