The US Air Force plane that crashed into a field in Oklahoma late Thursday afternoon was a new special operations light attack aircraft that the service first received earlier this year. The new OA-1K ...

Autonomous crop-spraying aircraft are leading the way in pilot-free flying.

MALTA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wright Electric and Axter Aerospace, leading innovators in electric aircraft technology, are thrilled to announce the successful completion of the maiden flights of their ...

Morris Plains, NJ, May 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Low-flying aircraft spraying a fine mist over fields has long been a common sight in aerial crop management. Developed in the early 20th century, so ...

Deliveries of the Pyka Pelican 2 UAV to Brazil are to begin in August 2025. Credit: Pyka Pyka has won a firm order for 60 autonomous crop duster aircraft to be sold to a Brazilian distributor. The ...

Wireless Estimator reports that the pilot, who has been named as Gus Macy, suffered major injuries on Thursday morning after his aircraft hit a Basin Mediactive, LLC AM radio tower. The tower is one ...

Rotor Technologies is working through regulatory approval of a remotely piloted helicopter based on Robinson Helicopter’s R44, with hopes of tapping into the aerial crop-dusting market. Unmanned ...

Guardian’s SC1 aerial-application eVTOL can cover 40 acres/hr. Credit: Guardian Massachusetts-based startup Guardian, which is developing an unmanned electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) crop ...

PARKERSBURG, Iowa (AP) — An ambulance carrying a person who had been sprayed by a crop duster aircraft was sprayed with more chemicals on its way to the hospital. Grundy County Sheriff Rick Penning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A US Air Force special ops plane converted from a crop duster crashed in Oklahoma yesterday. No injuries were reported amongst the ...