Fun With Shorts! Sky Billboards
Added 2017-09-13 00:29:59 +0000 UTCThis movie about skywriting is all about skywriting and how one might go about writing in the sky with some sort of skywriting vehicle. Skywriting.
I'm uploading a little early this week since I'll be out tomorrow night (seeing Close Encounters on the big screen!) Stay tuned at the end for a new patrons shout-out. Something I've been meaning to get in there for a while now.
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Hi, Lisa, I'm happy to read that skywriting still happens, and I guess it was mostly for a slower-paced time. Thanks for letting me know.
Bill Lemmond
2017-09-25 22:52:33 +0000 UTCVery rarely I'll still see skywriting, but I seem to recall the last time I did that there was pushback over the traffic slowdowns it caused on the freeway, as people tried to look up while driving to read it.
arcanetrivia
2017-09-25 22:32:42 +0000 UTCHad to watch again, right away. I guess enough people still go to seashores and lon the Great Lakes, but now there are long banners that only need one pilot flying straight and level. And car advertising seems to have been most of that. It's changed, and fragmented. People will look at screens on their handheld devices, instead. Thanks for preserving some history. :)
Bill Lemmond
2017-09-20 02:53:26 +0000 UTCHi, Josh, This one means a lot to me, because my Dad was a single-seat, single-engine jet fighter pilot for over 20 years. Many times, Mom drove out to the Air National Guard base, outside Richmond, to pick up Dad, and I'd get to see the planes land. We also went out to send him off on cross-country training flights, but that meant a long, sad wait for him to return. I got to walk around inside the hangar, on a catwalk, looking down at maintenance work. It made up for some of the teasing I got in school. Dad made plastic models of various aircraft, from all eras, so I had biplane models hanging from my bedroom ceiling, by thread. I will want to watch this video, again and again. I can only remember seeing sky writing once or twice, over the Virginia seashore, the only place where enough people outdoors might look up and read. In later years, biplanes just pulled long banners with one-sentence ads. It was still pretty neat. Thankds for the memories, and I'm happy to keep supporting you. :)
Bill Lemmond
2017-09-20 02:42:32 +0000 UTC
