The Helicopter as an Agricultural Tool

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The aviation industry has not yet given much attention to the development of rotary winged machines as specialist agricultural tools which would help to make farming easier, more efficient and more productive. The emphasis is, and naturally has been, on the development of the immediately bigger markets for military aircraft. It is understandable, if unfortunate, that the farmer has to wait his turn well down in the queue of various armed forces specialists. He is waiting for aviation to turn the focus, some day, of its technical knowledge and research resources onto the way that the versatility, manoeuvrability and usefulness of the helicopter can be used to grow more food, timber, wool and other natural products.