How do skywriters write words in the sky?

Answer 1

Skywriting is an aviation technique created by vaporizing fluid in the plane’s exhaust system to form letters in the sky. Skywriting is an advertising medium in which aircraft spell out trade names and sales slogans in the sky by means of the controlled emission of smoke.

The traditional handwriting has a single plane, maneuvering through the sky to form letters. The white smoke that remains like writing across the sky is composed of a special oil, which combines with the plane’s exhaust. The average message is up to six characters long.

The Super-size skywriting uses five to seven planes. They fly rigidly parallel and equidistant courses as nearly in perfect unison as possible. The message to be written is arranged on a master control panel, and as the planes fly abreast electronic signals cause the smoke-emission mechanism in each plane to release puffs of smoke accordingly. Super-Size Skywriting is carried out by a squadron of planes that are coordinated to print different segments of the message simultaneously. Every four seconds a new letter or logo is finished. The average message is up to twenty (20) characters and can stretch five to eight miles long.

Each letter is about one-mile high, and the average four to six character message is written across a 10-mile slate of sky. Super-Size Skywriting messages are approximately five to eight miles long. Each character is over 1,500 ft. tall. Messages can be up to 25 to 30 characters and can be written in various languages.

On a clear day, each letter can be seen for up to 30 miles in any direction from the ground. That’s over 3,000 sq. miles for each message written. As the wind drifts the sky written words, even more people see them! A single writing is readable over a seven to eight mile radius. Typically, writing is performed between 7,000 and 17,000 ft. Each character takes 60 to 90 seconds of carefully choreographed flying that includes precisely timed turns and different bursts of skywriting fluid.

The technique was first developed (1922) by J. C. Savage, a pioneer English aviator. Sky-written ads date back to the 1930s when Pepsi put its message up among the clouds from coast to coast. Pepsi has continued its extensive Skywriting program to this day with their fully dedicated aircraft Skywriting its trademark brand over thirty plus major markets per year. There are less than six veteran Skywriting pilots available Worldwide that would be considered to perform your job.☺

Answer 2

I think that skywriters originally wrote with a smoke trail in script. They must have been aerobatic pilots.

A couple of years ago, I actually saw some modern skywriting in New York City. (It was actually Queens.) There was a small airplane towing a a bar behind it that could release eight or so puffs of smoke at once. It could print characters just like a dot matrix printer! It was obviously under computer control. The pilot just had to fly a straight line across the sky and print his messages.

Answer 3

How Does Skywriting Work

Answer 4

They use smoke created by spraying oil into the exhaust of the airplane that they're flying.


Doug

Answer 5

Get on a 747 with pen an paper in hand...then write a novel. ha ha ha

Answer 6

Most of them use airplanes.