Embraer’s Ipanema Fueled by Crops It Dusts

Embraer’s 37-year-old application aircraft, the Ipanema, has a new lease on life as green as the crops it sprays. Developed in the late 1960s by Brazil’s Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica with financing from the country’s agriculture ministry, the Ipanema first flew in 1970 and was awarded...

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