Ayres' Combat Cropdusters Combat Crop Dusters: the Turbo-Thrush NEDS and the V-1-A Vigilante For much of the last quarter century, the United States government has been fighting a secret air war in the jungles of Southeast Asia and in the cloud forests of Central and South America. But in this case, the usual fleet of small, unmarked aircraft are not manned by USAF Special Operations crews or CIA mercenaries, and the enemy is not international communism. Instead the pilots are contractors working for the United States Department of State, and their enemies are plants—specifically, marijuana, opium, and coca. The ...