Aerial application

Aerial application, or what was formerly referred to as crop dusting, involves spraying crops with crop protection products from an agricultural aircraft. Planting certain types of seed are also included in aerial application. The specific spreading of fertilizer is also known as aerial topdressingin some countries.

Agricultural aircraft are highly specialized, purpose-built aircraft. Today's agricultural aircraft is often powered by a turbine engines of up to 1500 hp and can carry as much as 800 gallons of crop protection product. Helicopters are sometimes used, and some aircraft serve double duty as water bombers in areas prone to wildfires.(These aircraft are referred to as S.E.A.T. "single engine air tankers").

History

Aerial Seed Sowing 1906

The first known aerial application of agricultural materials was by John Chaytor, who in 1906 spread seed over a swamped valley floor in Wairoa, New Zealand, using a hot air balloon with mobile tethers. Aerial sowing of seed still continues to this day with cover crop applications and rice planting.

Cropduster (disambiguation)

Cropduster refers to a plane used in Aerial application

Cropduster may also refer to:

Riot Act (album)

Riot Act is the seventh studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, released on November 12, 2002 through Epic Records. Following a full-scale tour in support of its previous album, Binaural (2000), Pearl Jam took a year-long break. The band then reconvened in the beginning of 2002 and commenced work on a new album. The music on the record featured a diverse sound, including songs influenced by folk, art rock, and experimental rock. The lyrics deal with mortality and existentialism, with much influence from both the political climate after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the accidental death of nine fans during Pearl Jam's performance at the 2000 Roskilde Festival.

The band supported the album with a politically charged concert tour in 2003. Riot Act was the band's last album of all-new material for Epic. The album received mostly positive reviews, and has been certified gold by the RIAA in the United States.

Recording

Producer Adam Kasper was brought in to work with the band on its seventh album. Kasper had engineered other Pearl Jam albums, and was brought to produce following a suggestion by drummer Matt Cameron, who worked with Kasper on his previous groups Wellwater Conspiracy and Soundgarden. Riot Act was recorded in two sessions in February 2002 and April 2002 at Studio X in Seattle, Washington. The album was mixed by Brendan O'Brien at Studio X.

Fail-safe

A fail-safe or fail-secure device is one that, in the event of a specific type of failure, responds in a way that will cause no harm, or at least a minimum of harm, to other devices or to personnel.

Fail-safe and fail-secure are similar but distinct concepts. Fail-safe means that a device will not endanger lives or property when it fails. Fail-secure means that access or data will not fall into the wrong hands in a failure. Sometimes the approaches suggest opposite solutions. For example, if a building catches fire, fail-safe systems would unlock doors to ensure quick escape and allow firefighters inside, while fail-secure would lock doors to prevent unauthorized access to the building.

A system's being "fail-safe" means not that failure is impossible or improbable, but rather that the system's design prevents or mitigates unsafe consequences of the system's failure. That is, if and when a "fail-safe" system "fails", it is "safe" or at least no less safe than when it was operating correctly.

Failsafe (UK band)

Failsafe are an English melodic rock band whose current line up has been together since 2005, although the foundations of the band were laid in 2000. They are based in and around Preston, England. So far they have released three albums independently, with their third produced by Dave Eringa.

History

Beginnings

Based in the North West England city of Preston, the various members brought their own individual influences and styles to the band. Forming in spring 2000, the school friends were originally known as Duck Hunt after the NES game.

After a number of line up changes the band began to tour, sharing the stage with the likes of Paramore, Cute Is What We Aim For, A Wilhelm Scream, Idlewild, The Bouncing Souls, Flogging Molly, Boysetsfire, Allister, Rx Bandits, Belvedere, Capdown, The Aquabats, Spunge, A Day To Remember, Armor for Sleep, Anti-Flag and Phinius Gage.

The debut album, What We Are Today, was released late in 2005 and received positive reviews from magazines like Metal Hammer, Kerrang! and Big Cheese.

Failsafe (American band)

Failsafe is an American mainstream rock band from Kansas City, Missouri, that was formed in late 2007 by Dylan Sean Maloney. Failsafe has become known for their energetic live performances and catchy, hard-hitting songs.

History

Formation (2007)

Failsafe is a mainstream rock band from Kansas City, Missouri that was formed in late 2007 by vocalist/guitarist Dylan Sean Maloney. The band, originally a trio consisting of Maloney and long-time friends Nick Faulconer (drums) and Chris Ellis (bass), soon added guitarist Brett Johnson to the team in search of a fuller sound. Beginning their career as a cover band, Failsafe played numerous local shows covering various songs by their favorite artists, while working on their own original material.

In a radio interview with KC Music Live, Dylan Sean Maloney speaks of the origin of the name Failsafe:

"The name of our band is Failsafe. The music we write as a group often deals with real-life problems and complicated issues that young people go through every day. Although we don't explicitly talk about these issues, the meanings can be found in our music. Since the word 'failsafe' essentially means 'fallback,' or simply 'backup plan,' it symbolizes our way of expressing the angst, pain, joy, and confusion of dealing with life's issues. So in that way, writing, recording, and performing music is our 'fallback,' or Failsafe."