CROPDUSTER PILOT (2)
Among my father's countless adventures, this one has a special interest. Describes a near death experience, product of those dangerous flights of agricultural fumigation. This event took place in March of 1958, in one of the fields of the so-called Hacienda "Golondrinas" in Piura, northern Perú, when my father flew for the CAFA company. I heard this story dozens of times throughout my life and each time it became more real and detailed. It was not until my father-somehow-recovered the photographs that were taken from his crashed airplane that the story and the drama involved came to life . I could write it by heart, but I prefer to stop at this point and make way for my father so that, from the pages of his book "Pilot of the FAP" is he himself who can relate this chilling episode, the accident he suffered on an "Stearman" airplane modified for agricultural spraying work. The Hand of Death From the book "Air Force Pilot" by Ped...