About Skywriting

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Suzanne Asbury-Oliver
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About Skywriting

DEFINITION:	Skywriting is an aviation technique created by vaporizing fluid in the plane’s exhaust system to form letters in the sky.
DIMENSIONS:	Each letter is about one-mile high, and the average message is written across a 10-mile slate of sky.
VISIBILITY:	On a clear day, each letter can be seen for up to 30 miles in any direction from the ground. That’s over 2,800 square miles for each message written. As the wind drifts the skywritten words, even more people see them!
ALTITUDE:	Typically, writing is performed between 7,000 and 14,000 feet. Air temperature drops 3.5 degrees for every 1,000 feet of altitude. On warm days, skywriting must be done at higher altitudes.
WEATHER:	Ideal conditions are clear, blue skies.
EXECUTION:	Each word takes about 10 minutes of carefully choreographed flying that includes precisely timed turns and bursts of skywriting fluid.
SKYWRITING FLUID:	An environmentally-approved,oil-based fluid that is vaporized in the 1,500 degree heat of the exhaust of the aircraft’s engine.
SKYWRITING TEAM:	Suzanne Asbury-Oliver Occupation: Pilot Born: 1958 Hometown: Forest Grove, OR Steve Oliver Occupation: Pilot/Mechanic Born: 1946 Hometown: Rutledge, MO Pax Occupation: Official "Meeter and Greeter" Born: ? Discovered: May 1997 in the Salisbury, MD pound