Banner Towing
Joined: Aug 1999
Aviation Qualifications: ATP+Mil
Posts: 4,411
Likes: 83
From: Gold Coast, Australia
Mr Walker's website:
I must find out why I have banner towing entries in my logbook from 1989 in Melbourne, and as for this photo that I took in about 1972, I guess that doesn't count 
We invented the concept of helicopters towing banners about 10 years ago;
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 2
Likes: 0
From: Auckland, New Zealand
Concede that one...
I'm not to sure if that '72 tow does count - it's not really a banner, is it? More a small rag.
Interesting anyhow... Should I have said that I invented the banner concept with the first safety system approved for over city flights...got the FAA in Los Angeles to first approve it in 1994.
A lot of prgress since then - and my inference about the Aussie designs referes to the big slow sheets of cloth I've noted they fly to often - there's a right way and wrong way to make them, and fly them.
We fly at 50knots, are capable of tight manoeuvres...and we still fly with trained flight-rigger assisting the pilot.
The safety systems has been refined and has been 100% reliable over all the years.
Interesting anyhow... Should I have said that I invented the banner concept with the first safety system approved for over city flights...got the FAA in Los Angeles to first approve it in 1994.
A lot of prgress since then - and my inference about the Aussie designs referes to the big slow sheets of cloth I've noted they fly to often - there's a right way and wrong way to make them, and fly them.
We fly at 50knots, are capable of tight manoeuvres...and we still fly with trained flight-rigger assisting the pilot.
The safety systems has been refined and has been 100% reliable over all the years.
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 483
Likes: 0
From: The Dark Side
My God there's a lot of wankers on this site - and the biggest of the lot are the f'ing kiwi's - as I said on another thread - the petty jealousies that make up the Australiasian helo scene absolutely leave me gobsmacked - well done John E you are streets ahead of the rest of the pups!!
GAGS
E86
GAGS
E86
Joined: Dec 1999
Posts: 118
Likes: 0
From: Aberdeen.
Originally Posted by John Eacott
We have been flying flags for >10years, although only over water. One operator has approval for an overland system in Australia.
Largest that I have flown was about 35,000 sq ft.
Largest that I have flown was about 35,000 sq ft.
PS Pavlov played with dogs, Pavlova a scrummy pud named after a ballerina
Joined: Aug 1999
Aviation Qualifications: ATP+Mil
Posts: 4,411
Likes: 83
From: Gold Coast, Australia
Originally Posted by Blind
John, I'd really love to know what 35,000 sq ft is, can you give me a clue in standard british tabloid measurements of football pitches, nelson columns or double decker busses? Cheers!!
Brian Walker:
I'm not to sure if that '72 tow does count - it's not really a banner, is it? More a small rag
Banner Towing ?
The Veloceraptor of Lounge Lizards
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 339
Likes: 0
From: From here the view is lovely
Sorry guys, read the rest of the thread. The ONLY company allowed to do this task in the UK are Cabair at Elstree. The others sub-contract to Cabair when required and there is always a Cabair pilot on board. The job is always done under the Cabair AOC. Last year I flew a heck of a lot of it. My back is only just starting to lose the twin squirrel seat shape