skywrite
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Check it out on Twitter — #promposal will show you some of the outrageous ones, with Richie Riches hiring helicopters to descend on the lucky girl or planes to skywrite “Prom?”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2015
You might as well skywrite your questions to a press spokesman as put them in an e-mail.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2011
When Sinatra failed to respond to a barrage of calls and telegrams from Yorkin and Lear, they hired a plane to fly over his house and skywrite their phone number.
From Time Magazine Archive
One ad agency is talking of hiring an airplane to skywrite ads for its clients' products directly above the shrine.
From Time Magazine Archive
A full-on craze in the early days of aeronautics, skywriting faded over the decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
During the album’s opening number, “White Dress,” she pirouettes across the upper edge of her vocal register, her airy falsetto evaporating into the space around her like a fleeting, soon-to-be-illegible piece of skywriting.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2021
What would Whitney Houston, or Mariah Carey, or Mary J. Blige, or Beyoncé have done with their voices were it not for all of Franklin’s impossible skywriting?
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2018
That's a problem for the 35-year-old because his small skywriting businesses only really works in the air, and when Mr Trump's in town a 10-mile no-fly zone comes with him.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2017
“The kid’s about as gifted as a caterpillar. He brings home a B and it sets off six days of skywriting and fireworks.”
From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman
Across seven miles of sky, in letters half a mile high, Airman Jacobson skywrote: "Wiggie loves Helen."
From Time Magazine Archive
