08-11-2014, 01:41 AM
Dynamic was previously known as K & K Aircraft. They took military planes and modified them to operate as crop sprayers, firefighting planes, etc.
http://www.dynamicaviation.com/about-us/...y-history/
Virgil Gottfried in a K&K Aircraft at its home airport in Bridewater, Virginia, 1998.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/K-&-K/Ham...ffbfbf65a0
Modifying government planes to be used as sprayers...you can't help but think of the US Forest Service airtanker scandal...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Forest...ng_seizure
Did Virgil Gottfried ever work for the US Forest Service at K&K? Apparently so. They received Forest Service contracts to manage insects, mentioned here on the Forest Service website.
http://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/techno...mplete.pdf
In the Forest Service's record of air accidents, we see Virgil Gottfried mentioned here:
http://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/aviati...0-2010.pdf
http://www.dynamicaviation.com/about-us/...y-history/
Quote:In 1967, Karl Stoltzfus, Chris's son, established K&K Aircraft, Inc. Shortly thereafter, he led the company in purchasing a fleet of Beechcraft BE-18s and Douglas DC-3s. These aircraft were tanked for aerial application, and began operating throughout the United States.
Over the years, Dynamic Aviation has continually found creative ways to meet our customer's most challenging requirements. For example, in 1992 we released our first sterile insects to control, and in some cases eradicate, various pests. Dynamic Aviation has since established an excellent reputation for quality and service, and is now recognized as the international leader of sterile insect release operating aircraft worldwide.
Virgil Gottfried in a K&K Aircraft at its home airport in Bridewater, Virginia, 1998.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/K-&-K/Ham...ffbfbf65a0
Modifying government planes to be used as sprayers...you can't help but think of the US Forest Service airtanker scandal...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Forest...ng_seizure
Did Virgil Gottfried ever work for the US Forest Service at K&K? Apparently so. They received Forest Service contracts to manage insects, mentioned here on the Forest Service website.
http://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/techno...mplete.pdf
Quote:In November 1991, a contract for $2,000 was awarded to K&K Aircraft (Bridgewater, Virginia) to modify the flake dispensers or develop another system for use on larger aircraft.
Quote:The prototype system for dispensing flakes from large aircraft developed by K&K Aircraft needed extensive modification (e.g., to widen the effective swath and achieve a more uniform distribution of flakes across the swath), but the modification was not pursued due to anticipated limited use of large aircraft to apply Disrupt II over large areas in the next five years. As a result, dispenser development by K & K Aircraft was discontinued.
In the Forest Service's record of air accidents, we see Virgil Gottfried mentioned here:
http://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/aviati...0-2010.pdf
Quote:K & K pilot Virgil Gottfried, went to the landing site to check out the aircraft and the site for a safe take-off.