Sky Scribe

Examining several lines of Arabic script, I was struck by how easy it would be to skywrite Arabic letters with my single engine Focker Wulf bi-plane - just a few flicks of the aircraft's tail amid the clouds would be all that is required to compose most average slogans and advertisements for local Arabic businesses who might require such aeronautical public relations services. Conversely, of course, considering the expert degree of artistry and measure of precision involved, airborne Chinese calligraphy would be extremely difficult to execute.

Comments

[Fcb]

I hope,in your classic FW bi-plane, you would be writing in the traditional manner, excepting of course that you'd have to fly backwards for arabic script?

The skywriters of Los Angeles totally cheat these days - they fly in a straight line with an eight-point smoke dispenser hanging out their rear. They fly, and print, in the manner of those noisy old dot-matrix printers that used to foul up our offices so. One half expects the message to resemble a payroll ledger.

[Mrs. Peperium]

There's a major drawback. Danger would have to trade in her silk scarf for a Bhurka.

[Mrs. Peperium]

There's a major drawback. Danger would have to trade in her silk scarf for a Bhurka.

[Mrs. Peperium]

Why do I echo on your blog?

[Mrs. Peperium]

Why do I echo on your blog?

[Quicquid]

It's the flicker-fast clicking action of the devastatingly dextrous digit of the divine diva Mrs. P.

[stephenesque]

Which Mrs P would that be, then? I know of none that answers to that description!

[carter]

The wind could easily blow your Arabic skywriting into the shape of a blasphemous phrase without you even knowing it until you landed and found your Focker being pelted with Falafel or worse by an angry (is their any other kind?) Arab mob.