The Heavies of the Aerial Topdressing World
New Zealand Wings Magazine , Volume 38, Issue 11
Pages 14-21
01 November 1974
Pages 14-21
01 November 1974
THE use of large machinery on a farm has always been on the minds of most New Zealanders. For some reason a large and impressive looking piece of machinery is always better than a rather smaller unit designed to do the same job.
It is little wonder then that New Zealand farmers, brought up with the healthy "the bigger the better" attitude, advocated the use of large aircraft for aerial top-dressing.