Coletador para produtos sólidos aplicados por avião.

Abstract

In order to study the uniformity of granular fertilizer distributions applied by aircraft, as well as to evaluate the performance of spreaders, the authors developped a catcher for dry materiais. A plastic bucket uas adapted, making ease the re colletion of the material to be weighted. The catching area is 0,0765mz and the conversion factor of grammes of catched materi al to kilos per hectare is 130,72. The test indicated a recove ry rate of 81,60%. A graph is shown with the observed swath pat tem.