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How Skywriting Works

Stuff You Should Know

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How to Make a Silly Message

In the 40s, Andy Stennis was like, I'm just going to put five planes in the service together. And then you print out basically a message that way. The thing is though, it's going to look neater than your hand drawn one. It's not going to look like a five year old drew it. Well especially since in the 60s, they introduced computer programs that control it too.

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