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A New Twist On Skywriting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the air-apparent dept.

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."

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  1. Someone by giorgiofr · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Someone by AxminsterLeuven · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. So... by cp.tar · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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

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  3. what to sell... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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

  4. Re:What a disgusting waste of fuel by pandrijeczko · · Score: 4, Funny

    You seem to forget that the private jets of $500,000+ salaried business executives use special Toorichtogiveashit patented non-global warming fuel unlike the economy class "Two or three times a year" passenger planes we prolls fly on.

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  5. They missed a V by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 4, Funny

    GVV for global vvarming.

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  6. My only thoughts are by Timberwolf0122 · · Score: 2, Funny

    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?

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    1. Re:My only thoughts are by Arimus · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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    2. Re:My only thoughts are by Arimus · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  7. Ugly font by Anders+Andersson · · Score: 5, Funny

    With a size of 3 billion points, breaking an earlier record, 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?

  8. Ob Futurama by LarsWestergren · · Score: 4, Funny

    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."

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  9. her book? or his movie? by way2trivial · · Score: 2, Funny

    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

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  10. Re:What a disgusting waste of fuel by Vr6dub · · Score: 4, Funny

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