Flying the Ayres Thrush S2R-T45

In this video I am in west Tennessee spreading seed in an Ayers Thrush S2R-T45. This plane has a 500 gallon hopper with a 1000shp Pratt and Whitney PT6-45. That big motor made this plane a really nice plane to work. Unfortunately later in the year that I shot this video another pilot ran it out of fuel and totaled the airplane. The pilot was un injured but the plane will never fly again.

[@Breenild]

Awesome flying skills!

[@JB_Hobbies]

Was cool to see how the power is set and stays that way for the entire routine.

[@pcohen85]

Doing dry work there aren't many power setting changes. This particular plane there were more than most because it would fly VNE with a full load and it you left the power at that setting it would break the sound barrier as the load came off.

[@turtleyurt1481]

First

[@WhetstoneCreek]

Bring back commentary!

[@pcohen85]

Haha, I have a bunch of old videos without commentary that I post every now and then. This vid was recorded in 2017

[@josephking6515]

I hope the clown who ran her dry never flies again either. Running out of fuel is inexcusable.