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High
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 The
first skywriting I saw, when I was 16, read, Pepsi Cola Five
Cents. I was hooked-couldn't wait to buy a plane and go into
the business myself. Now I have 50 planes, all over the
country.
Later on, that pilot who did the Pepsi
message taught me a lot. I learned from him how to check my
work by watching the letters' shadows on the ground. It's
confusing at first because skywriting is mirror writing -
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messages
are upside down and backward on the pilot's flight plan. Each
2,500-foot-tall letter is made by oils we inject into the plane's
exhaust.
The length of a message is rarely a
problem. Will You Marry Me Mia was only nine miles wide.
But the content matters a lot. We'd never write anything
offensive. After all, kids are our biggest fans. And our
next pilots. |
