Love in the Sky is a painting by Bruce Nutting which was uploaded on June 4th, 2015.
Love in the Sky
The beginnings of skywriting are disputed. In a 1926 letter to The New York Times, Albert T. Reid wrote:... more
Title
Love in the Sky
Artist
Bruce Nutting
Medium
Painting - Digital
Description
The beginnings of skywriting are disputed. In a 1926 letter to The New York Times, Albert T. Reid wrote:
A newspaper paragraph says skywriting was perfected in England in 1919 and used in the United States the next year. But Art Smith, who succeeded Beachey in flying exhibitions at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, after the latter had been killed, did skywriting, always ending his breathtaking stunts by writing "Good night." This was not a trial exhibition, but a part of every flight, and was always witnessed by thousands.
Major Jack Savage, former RAF pilot and a writer for Flight magazine, had a successful skywriting fleet of Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 aircraft in England. He flew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, bringing the practice to America as well. The first use of skywriting for advertising purposes was on November 28, 1922 over New York City.
However, commercial skywriting in the United States was developed in the early 1930s by Sid Pike, founder of the Skywriting Corporation of America in 1932.
One of the first major clients was Pepsi-Cola, which used skywriting to reach a mass market. A tremendous number of flights were contracted by Pepsi-Cola, with 2,225 flown in 1940,.[5] Skywriting has also been used at times by artists. Skywriter Wayne Mansfield flew for John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and he appeared as a sky artist over the Biennale in Venice, Italy. Artist Vik Muniz used skywriting for his "cloud cloud" project.
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