So I never really realized...

ChadW346

ChadW346

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How serious Grand Forks was about mosquito control until I saw this buzzing the town, tonight:

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I had been familiar with this guy, though, but had never seen the plane (the pic is probably too big to post on here):

http://www.grandforksgov.com/publichealth/programs/environmental/12_000.JPEG
 
come to the south and see what a mosquito HAWK is......they are H U G E down here and are ruthless......damn Missip river!
 
they were out spraying on monday or tuesday night as well.

bad part about tonight was i could taste it in the air :(
 
I don't know if you guys were here two summers ago when the C-130 was doing the job of spraying. I remember it buzzing my university apartment and you could literally see the flight crew inside. That thing was louuuuuuud, I loved it.
 
AngelFuree said:
I don't know if you guys were here two summers ago when the C-130 was doing the job of spraying. I remember it buzzing my university apartment and you could literally see the flight crew inside. That thing was louuuuuuud, I loved it.
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i remember that
 
That Skymaster was spraying alot last summer too. It's a welcome sight believe me!! I live near the banks of the mighty English Coulee, whose waters don't exactly flow majestically.
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AngelFuree said:
I don't know if you guys were here two summers ago when the C-130 was doing the job of spraying. I remember it buzzing my university apartment and you could literally see the flight crew inside. That thing was louuuuuuud, I loved it.
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That was pretty spectacular. I remember I was upstairs in my apartment building doing laundry. I used to live on an air base that had c-130s so I know the sound all too well. I looked out the window and it was barely clearing the treetops. Man that would be a pretty spectacular job, even if it meant you had to come to GF for a few days out of the year.
 
that thing flies real low. I remember taking walks around outside of smith and I think I see it buzz right on top of the Chester Fritz auditorium.
 
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A crop-spraying plane crashed northwest of [Fergus Falls, Minnesota] this morning but the pilot escaped injury.The plane [flew out of Fergus Falls and] crashed shortly after 8 a.m. about a mile and [a] half west of the junction of Highway 59 and Interstate 94.
A state trooper at the scene said the pilot was not hurt, but the plane was totaled.
Otter Tail County Sheriff Brian Schlueter said the pilot encountered a problem after taking off from the Fergus Falls airport and tried to land in a cornfield.
The plane hit a soft spot, flipped over and began leaking fuel and chemicals. Cleanup was under way.
The name of the pilot was not released.
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I fixed the grammar errors for the Herald writer. :D
 
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