I love it
I like how the smoke is just a bunch of little poofs. It makes me imagine the pilot pretended to fart and giggle every time.
oh its 5 planes? I thought this was some kind of laser that somehow activated the sky’s icecrystals like … sigh … "chem"trails. (they are not ‘chem’ trails, they are atmospheric disturbances caused by planes)
couldn’t drones do this?
Contrails
Most of them are 5 planes. But you could do this with one plane “printing” out 5 rows of clouds. It could be a drone printing them out very close, or a manned plane further away.
It could also be photoshop.
can prob have a bunch of drones to do it but the visibility could be a problem
works best in night sky i think
More likely, one person spent time and effort, and someone else spent money.
SomeoneA hero. The words you meant to use are “A hero”
When did skywriting go from analog to digital?
When people got rich enough that the upper-middle class can afford to hire 5 airplanes instead of 1…
How does one do this? Asking for a friend.
How about FUCK U/SPEZ instead? That’d be hilarious.
You’re underestimating the number of people with money and lots of time in their hand. There are people who dont have to do 9-5 to pay rent or mortgage. They were born with fuck you money.
Proud of them
Stuff like this makes my day bearable
A millionaire spending fuck you money to sky type deez nuts? Weird.
If it’s a half hour job, 5 planes x $200/hr (conservatively high) x 1/2 hour = maybe $500… And very likely by the company that owns them to get people to talk about it.
Actually a really cheap ad in that case. I’d rather something funny in the sky than yet another annoying ad (costing way more wasted money) on TV…
You realize Google is a thing, correct?
Skytyping can cost more than regular skywriting, starting at $25,000. Skytyping uses five planes instead of one, but it’s a more accurate form of aerial advertising that ensures legibility. A personal skywriting message can cost upwards of $6,000–$8,000, depending on where the few skywriting planes are located at the time you want the message written. Skywriting rates are generally charged per flight hour. A one-hour flight over a major city can cost anywhere from $500 to $5,000.
Again, very few non fuck you money are spending 5k at the low end on deeze nuts. Conservativly high 🤦♂️
You’re not wrong, but think of the number of people this brought joy to.
Is it wasteful? Sure. Is it a bit of a face slap to people living paycheck to paycheck, assuming they’re even that well off? Sure. But is it a net negative? Who can say? Unlike most fuck-you-money splurges, this one probably at least lightened some people’s days for a moment, and that’s not nothing.
Gottem
This is very different from the old sky writing. Is there a giant computer controlled bar that releases the smoke at the right time?
It’s just snoop dogg breathing out at regular intervals
It uses multiple aligned planes (or perhaps drones at this point?) and yes, it is all computer-controlled.
It’s like a dot matrix printer for the sky
That’s exactly what it is.
It’s called skytyping. It’s more expensive than regular skywriting because it needs 5 planes but it’s easier to read.
i expected it to be like a long bar with exits you can open and close by computer and that way you could then control it… isn’t 5 planes a bit complicated?
Still cheaper than a smoking daisy wheel.
You seem knowledgeable about this stuff… where can you go in the United States to see actual skywriting? I’ve never seen it, but I’ve always lived the middle of nowhere.
Frequently at popular beaches.
Some things just need to be said.
