Sunday, May 11, 2008

Aerial Planting

I hadn't heard of this. Planting the rice fields by plane.


During planting season, usually from late April to mid-May, many pilots work 15-hour days, seven days a week, strafing hundreds of flooded acres per day. A busy rice flier might make as many as 100 takeoffs and landings a day along narrow dirt airstrips cut between paddies.

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