Shiver wrote:
Shiver wrote:


A little pricey at a million dollars

Slight addition here folks.

The million buckies is for a military version with all the bells
and whistles.

The initial machine design was requested by the Japanese government
for crop spraying and that version sells for about one hundred
thousand buckies.

** Shiver
This came out about 10 years ago and not much has been done with it. It
doesn't have a lot of application unless you are going to go into a
really high threat environment (like spraying weeds that glow in the
dark around Chernobyl) and its limited load makes it impractical.
Once again the Japanese came up with an ingenious solution to a non
existent problem!
I trained a number of Japanese pilots for All Nippon Airlines, and
Japan Air Lines. One of them became Chief Pilot at ANA and some are
still flying there as senior pilots. They could be trained for ag work
if they desired but like many, ag flying is such a special field that
it takes special people to hack it.
Cheers
Rocky
still doing flight instruction now with phyxed wing doing some basic
stuff with new Marine/Navy officer pilot selectees.

The government found that young people didn't want to get into
agriculture so they asked Yamaha to design a machine that was
highly automated, easy to fly, cheap to operate and would
interest young people to stay or get into agriculture.

The hopper holds 11 litres.