A New Twist On Skywriting

Nugget writes "The advent of Internet-based flight tracking technology enables an entirely new kind of skywriting. Gulfstream Aerospace sent up one of their $50M business jets today on an 8.5-hour test flight spanning 11 states for the sole purpose of leaving their mark on the Net in the form of a flight track that spells out 'GV' (the nickname of the Gulfstream V aircraft being flown) when viewed online."

Someone

[giorgiofr]

Someone give these guys something to do, STAT! :D

Re:Someone

[AxminsterLeuven]

How about "Aliens Attack Here -->" across a hemisphere you don't like?

So...

[cp.tar]

... are we looking at a new type of spam?

Can't wait to read "Enlarge your peanus" right above some skyscraper...

what to sell...

[Anonymous Coward]

ok lets see, with the target demographic of someone likely to be going through flight paths... you are likely to advertise internet dating sites or burkahs.

-Sj53

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They missed a V

[Bob Cat - NYMPHS]

GVV for global vvarming.

My only thoughts are

[Timberwolf0122]

It looks a bit wobbly and crap, also couldn't they have spelt out more than 2 letters? I mean they had the entier US air space!

Howlong befor a wealthy geek writes All You Base Are Belong to Us?

Re:My only thoughts are

[Arimus]

Just so long as the pilot doesn't have to crash at the end :)

Ugly font

[Anders Andersson]

With a size of 3 billion points, breaking an earlier record [gpsdrawing.com], couldn't they have afforded a slightly more sophisticated typeface, such as Courier?

My browser (Firefox) doesn't go beyond 72 points. Is there a skywriting plugin available somewhere?

Ob Futurama

[LarsWestergren]

Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: "Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no sir."

her book? or his movie?

[way2trivial]

here is a quote from the net.. Can you figure out without hitting the link who it's referring to?For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:HB_qxPVZ4AsJ: underthenews.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html+ snopes+ecology+irony+author+private+jet&hl=en&ct=c lnk&cd=1&gl=us [209.85.165.104]

Re:My only thoughts are

[Arimus]

Or with vista, just stand by the cockpit and shout stop stop stop or eject eject eject ;)

Re:What a disgusting waste of fuel

[Vr6dub]

What's worse than that is I actually did a google search on this magic fuel you mentioned and then it dawned on me.