So I never really realized...

[ChadW346]

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




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/publich...al/12_000.JPEG

[SeatClutcher]

Mosquitoes in ND and MN are the size of hummingbirds and fly in packs like schools of fish - of course they're serious!

[MSUDAWG]

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!

[BuickCFI]

they were out spraying on monday or tuesday night as well.

bad part about tonight was i could taste it in the air

[JEP]

Originally Posted by SeatClutcher

Mosquitoes in ND and MN are the size of hummingbirds and fly in packs like schools of fish - of course they're serious!

Well, It is our state bird....

[AngelFuree]

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.

[BuickCFI]

Originally Posted by AngelFuree

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.

i remember that

[RyosukeFC]

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.

[Screaming_Emu]

Originally Posted by AngelFuree

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.

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.

[CaptainChris87]

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.

[MrLeisure757]

Oops.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/arti...x.cfm?id=41545

[TheShocker]

Originally Posted by MrLeisure757

Oops.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/arti...x.cfm?id=41545

Username: forumsucks@noregistration.com

Password: forumsucks

Sucks for the guy but crop dusters usually fly to the beat of a different drum.

[JaceTheAce]

Originally Posted by TheShocker

Username: forumsucks@noregistration.com

Password: forumsucks

Sucks for the guy but crop dusters usually fly to the beat of a different drum.

LOL, for newspaper registrations go to www.bugmenot.com

Here's the one I entered in a while back

Username: grandforkssucks@dodgeit.com
Password: ihatepasswords

[JaceTheAce]

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.

I fixed the grammar errors for the Herald writer.

[TheShocker]

Originally Posted by JaceTheAce

LOL, for newspaper registrations go to www.bugmenot.com

Here's the one I entered in a while back

Username: grandforkssucks@dodgeit.com
Password: ihatepasswords

He He yeah! I just picked the first one from the list at Bug Me Not!

[JaceTheAce]

RyosukeFC made my laugh so hard just now! (from a Facebook Graffiti wall post he made):

[AngelFuree]

hahhaaha YES! that was on mine, I was cracking up. We were both out riding when the plane smoked us up.

[TXaviator]

sidenote: skymasters are really cool planes. id like to drive one.

[CaptainChris87]

Originally Posted by TXaviator

sidenote: skymasters are really cool planes. id like to drive one.

Be careful what you wish for you may end up working for them in GFK....for the rest of your career.....:P

[juxtapilot]

Originally Posted by JaceTheAce

I fixed the grammar errors for the Herald writer.

Holy God it needed it too!!

[Stinger]

I've never had to learn why brackets are used in some writing. Anyone know?

[Micaoct]

Brackets are used to enclose words and phrases independent of the sentence; as in, explanatory notes, omissions, and comments that are not written by the author.

[UAL747400]

YEAH, the C-130 was flying around again. That was damn sweet.

I was trying to get a picture of the pilot's face to see if they were just having a great time, but I couldn't zoom in that close and get a good picture.

[JaceTheAce]

Originally Posted by UAL747400

YEAH, the C-130 was flying around again. That was damn sweet.

I was trying to get a picture of the pilot's face to see if they were just having a great time, but I couldn't zoom in that close and get a good picture.

You don't have an 86 megapixel camera with .000000000000001mm X .0000000000000001mm sized CMOS, that's why.

(sorry, inside joke between Angel and I hehe)

[RyosukeFC]

Here are some pictures I got of the C-130 last night