It zips and zooms. It dives, rises and banks like a fighter jet bringing incendiaries to a helpless target. And after it’s done, it lands smoothly at the Pender airport.

But its payload is the farthest thing from destructive. It’s a state-of-the-art crop duster armed with a turbo prop and the latest GPS computer hardware fit to bring fields of soybeans, corn and wheat the highest possible yields at harvest.