Above Disney World Right Now

[Shami-Amourae]

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[Cebu_4_2]

Almost looks real tho I can't imagine how they would do that before the letters blend out.

[brosil]

Almost looks real tho I can't imagine how they would do that before the letters blend out.

I got this one. The skywriters use 5 or 6 planes flying in formation. The computer controlled smoke system releases the smoke like a dot matrix printer. Since all the smoke puffs tend to be in the same layer of air, they all drift the same and stay in formation. I've seen skywriting like that still be readable after an hour though it usually seems to last about 15 minutes.

[PatColo]

I've seen those jobees above SF a couple times the past few months. One I watched being created. Weird thng was, the 4-5... drones I'm guessing, flying parallel, were all but invisible. Must've been very small. And perhaps it was even a single flying wing, with multiple "white smoke" outlets; coz of the uniformity of their distance apart as the lines/dots were left. This one i watched was 2 weeks ago, Navy fleet week here, and the Blue Angels gave shows in the afternoon over the bay. These sky writing drones, or single wing drone, would need to fly in that blue angels like formation to create their messages.

[Cebu_4_2]

I got this one. The skywriters use 5 or 6 planes flying in formation. The computer controlled smoke system releases the smoke like a dot matrix printer. Since all the smoke puffs tend to be in the same layer of air, they all drift the same and stay in formation. I've seen skywriting like that still be readable after an hour though it usually seems to last about 15 minutes.


Appreciate that, looks to be quite complicated to get that all together in a short term.

[brosil]

Appreciate that, looks to be quite complicated to get that all together in a short term.

Actually, it's not that hard. You just have to maintain distance and speed from the lead aircraft. The computer is no different from what we use. Just type in what you want to say. It's a lot easier than single plane skywriting. It does require a substantial investment in aircraft.

The drone idea is interesting but I don't think the FAA would buy that one.

Most operations around here just pull signs.

[PatColo]

^ i'm sure i could search something up if i weren't so lazy; but recalling what i saw a couple weeks ago, there was no "lead plane"; the letters were formed from left to right with a uniform front "writing edge". If they were individual planes/drones/aircraft, they'd need to be maintaining almost impossible wingtip to wingtip proximity Blue Angels style; not the '>' formation with a lead plane up front. And given the hoops/precautions the Blue Angels must endure to give a show over an urban center, i find it implausible that some sky-writer biz would get green lighted to write some "Eat at Joe's" message over an urban center, if great precision/risk were involved.

The msg I saw being written was most likely done off the West/Pacific coast of SF. I was a bit west of center of the city (Geary/Masonic area) looking west where it was being done.