Skywriting Expertise
Skywriters
Canberra in Oz has just observed the expertise of a Skywriter at around 0900.
Pilot formed well shaped upper case letters spelling out DOMA ????? HOTELS in white smoke against a clear blue sky flecked with short trails formed by RPTs climbing south out of Sydney through a thin conning band.
Skywriter was at about 12,000 in a stable air mass moving SE at about 100 Kts.
How do you guys do it?
Ever use running writing?
What aids do you use? GPS any use?
What oil do you inject into the exhaust?
Do you pop up or down between letters to see what you have just written.?
Can you do it solo or do you carry a nav?
Are Oz and NZ the last places in the world with skys clear enough?
Is it a good earn?
You must be like a one armed paper hangar keeping track of everything.
Must be like trying to write upside down on paper with your eyes at paper level.
Last century a RAAF pilot found a band of conning air and managed to draw a huge phallic thing over Perth.
Claimed at his court martial that he was authorised for general flying and he was only practicing steep turns.
Anyone out there with a picture?