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To: Fundamentally Fair

That kind of skywriting requires five or more planes — somebody paid a pretty penny for their attack ad.


10 posted on 01/01/2016 10:26:45 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Look, someone is getting, shall we say, concerned here. This is actually a good thing. Flak over the target. Nobody is going to be convinced by smoke in the sky.


16 posted on 01/01/2016 10:30:29 AM PST by fhayek
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I didn't realize it required 5 planes.

Wikipedia...In 1946 the Skywriting Corporation found themselves with a fleet of surplus World War II planes and developed "dot matrix skywriting", or sky typing. Skytyping is the process of using five planes in formation to choreograph puffs of smoke being released from each plane. The messages, written at 10,000 foot altitude, can be up to 1,250 feet tall and over five miles long. Traditional skywriting letters are 3,000 feet high and take longer to write.

SkyTypers says it costs $1,500 per message and "variable copy a minimum of 10 times" (not sure what the last phrase means).

So it really doesn't take deep pockets. It wouldn't take much to get a few FReepers together to put up our own sign.

40 posted on 01/01/2016 11:30:32 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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