Sentence examples for spray plane from inspiring English sources

In southern Indiana, for example, a group of farmers joined forces in the summer of 1959 to engage a spray plane to treat an area of river-bottom land with parathion.

"It is very important that our residents are aware that the aircraft in question was an agricultural spray plane (bi-plane) flying to a field to apply a product.

Young discounts the ability of spray plane navigators to know where they were or pilots to accurately spray their targets thereby dismissing the utility of the voluminous spray records available, despite much evidence to the contrary.

Twelve Americans rotate in and out to fly spray planes.

Their role is to protect spray planes and destroy coca-processing laboratories in the jungle.

Escort helicopters that accompany spray planes and search-and-rescue helicopters are also staffed by American pilots and medics.

"The whole project is carrot and stick: they see the spray planes and sign up for manual eradication," says Anne Patterson, the United States' ambassador in Bogota.

An American study found that the manual teams pulled up an average of 20.5 hectares a day, while the spray planes covered 734 hectares a day.

Americans working in Colombia are constantly exposed to danger, critics note, with three American pilots killed since 1997 when their spray planes crashed.

Though coca planting continues, American officials contend that they have the spray planes, the will and the tactics to continue hitting coca, wherever it might sprout up.

The Dallas area has too many miles of roads to cover with mosquito-killing spray trucks, so the state has spent about $3 million — virtually all from the federal government — flying pesticide spray planes at night, Dr. Lakey said.