I worked at a banner towing company and once the bottom pole (which is a weighted carbon pipe with cement or metal and weighs 20 pounds) had fallen 1000+ ft and went about 6 ft through 2 ft of cement. And then the company 2 weeks after I quit had a plane in disrepair, the fuel gauges did not work nor did the tac. The pilot (whom was late teens) had ran out of fuel and crash landed killing a woman. That company is still running to this day
Didn't realize how expletively tricky amazing and interesting this work is. I'm working on an animation featuring a banner tow plane and curiosity drew me to find out.
The airport down the road from my brother does something like this. I remember being down there one time and seeing a small plane take a steep nose dive and pulling up before seeing it gain altitude again with a banner behind it. I remember it being kind of fascinating once we realized what it had done. This just explains it in more detail with some cool camera perspectives.
Great information on how this is done. I have seen planes tow banners at many ballparks because I am a baseball fan and aviation buff and always wondered how pilots set up and prepare how banners are towed from aircraft. Thanks
Yesterday i saw one of those planes for the first time and years and thought, "I wonder how they take off and land with those." Today this pops up on my recommended. So eerie.
A friend of mine used to fly an AG-CAT towing a huge text banner... one day on the pickup the banner broke in half, it was pretty fun to see the messed up message.
How interesting. I'd wondered how the pickup was done. The plane in the video reminds me of the crop dusters I see from time to time. Back in the day my brother flew a small plane that had lights under the wings that would produce words / pictures / advertising (only for night flight of course. He did a fly over at my sisters home during her birthday - oh so many years ago! Thanks for the posting.
I love nothing more than enjoying a nice relaxing day at the beach, sun bathing and swimming only to be greeted by a MASSIVE. FUCKING. ADVERT. IN. THE. FUCKING. SKY.
Here in Nigeria this method is used for campaigns, my younger brother has never missed the rope but twice the banner was upside down.🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
"You can't miss the billboard that flies by" "creates top of the mind awareness" "people want to get away from the big cities" "we go to where the people are" We wouldn't want you to escape advertising or anything.....
Mr. President #trump2020 #keepamericagreat Cuz it doesnt fit in the plane, you would need to adapt your plane so not only the banner fits in, but it also deploys correctly... its much cheaper with a tow hook like this
This seems unnecessarily complicated. If i had to guess how its done, I would have thought the ads were like rolled up and connected to the bottom or back of the plane, then after takeoff the pilot just pulls some sort of cable and hook mechanism to release the ad
in the jersey shore area, people bring their own planes, they use durable vinyl banners (they only advertise local businesses!) that they take off with, and they're paid quite well, so i guess this only really applies to the RI area?
I watched as a tow hook bounced off the ground, caught the lead rope as the pilot pulled up. The tow hook cable wrapped around the rudder horn, when the line went taunt it kicked the rudder hard over. immediate stall/spin into the ground from about 400'
why not have the banner folded up in a package on the side of the plane? the pilot pulls a string and it opens or why not have the banner already attached? this seems way too complicated and dangerous
why not attatch a custom tail to the plain that could fit the banner inside it or make a larger hull so that it can fit the banner inside then release through a hatch in the back when fast
