[GreenKeys] Skywriter

[Richard Knoppow]

      Someone operated this system in the Los Angeles area a very long 
time ago.  It was interesting to watch but not as attention holding as 
old fashioned sky writers.  At some point I started to resent the visual 
polution. I guess others have too because I have not seen a sky writing 
plane for years.  Maybe its the oil smoke. We now have light planes 
towing giant banners.  When I was a little kid I saw the famous Camel 
sign in Times Square that blew smoke rings (it really did) but it went 
away because the smoke was too poluting.

On 3/14/2015 7:40 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
>
> I was at a hamfest this morning, and some fellow dropped off a couple
> of old issues of Popular Science magazine that he didn't want to take
> home.  I flipped through one and saw an article about Skywriter. At
> first I thought it was some kind of teleprinter for use in airplanes.
> But, no, it was a patented system in which seven airplanes fly in
> formation side by side and release puffs of smoke to spell out words
> across the sky in dot matrix.
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