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How Skywriting Works

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The History of Sky Writing

On a clear day, you can see sky written messages for something like 30 miles. Captain Cyril Turner was the first person to write a sky written advertisement in 1922. After John Clifford invented this, somebody's like, "Let's charge companies money to advertise their stuff in the sky"

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