Early one spring morning, Michael heard a loud rumbling noise. He sat up in his bed and said, "What's making all that noise?" He looked out the window and saw a bright yellow plane. The plane was going back and forth over the fields. Something was falling from the plane, it looked like rain.

After a couple of minutes, the pilot landed the plane on the airstrip by Michael's house. Michael ran out to the airstrip to talk to the pilot.

"Wow! What kind of plane is that?"

The pilot climbed out of the cockpit and said, "Hi, My name is Timmy and this is a crop duster. Crop dusters are used to plant seeds, fertilize crops, and spray weeds and pests. Would you like to go for a ride with me?"

Michael excitedly replied, "Hold on! I'll ask my mom." Michael came running out and told Timmy he could go. A big truck was filling up the plane. Michael asked, "What are you filling up with?" Timmy explained that they were using a loader truck to fill up the hopper with seeds. Michael wanted to know if they loaded anything besides seeds. Timmy answered, "Sometimes we fill it full of fertilizer for the crops or we fill up with pesticides to spray for pests." They jumped into the cockpit and buckled up. After they buckled themselves in, both of them put on helmets. Timmy turned the crop duster on and took off. He had to watch out for trees, telephone poles, and other planes.

Timmy told Michael not to touch anything. Michael asked, "how do you steer the plane?"

"The crop duster is steered by a joystick. If you pull back, the plane goes up. If you push it forward, the plane goes down. Push to the left and we go left and same goes for the right." They flew back and forth over the field. Timmy opened and shut the gate lever. He did that so the seeds would fall out of the hopper. After a couple of fields, Timmy shut the gate lever.

Michael asked Timmy what the little television screen was doing in a cockpit. Timmy explained that it was a satellite. A satellite helps the pilot line up the plane in the correct position. It also helps a pilot make sure that he hasn't overlapped or skipped any part of the field.

Timmy called Michael's mom and told her to meet them at the hanger. When they got back to the hanger they parked the crop duster inside the building. Michael jumped out and said, "Thanks, Timmy, I'll never forget that I went for a ride in your crop duster!"