I got a job on the ground mixing chemicals and loading aircraft with granule fertilizer to obtain the necessary 'experience' and hopefully be a crop dusting pilot the following season.
The company who gave me the inglorious job of chemical mixing is the operator mentioned in the above article.
The pilot / owner of this outfit was lucky to hobble away from the mentioned accident....but then he is a resilient character with a genuine seventies pron star moustache to match.
All I learnt during my season on the ground was that crop dusters have plenty of incidents with there low flying all day everyday and decided I could easily be killed if I did this occupation.
I have elaborated more specifically on the lunacy and cowboy lifestyle of the crop dusting industry in my future book 'Rice, beans & flying machines'.
...After my first season I packed my bags and shipped off to East Africa for two years flying Caravans.
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