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[shamrock]

How is the banner kept flying vertically? What's to prevent it from ending up more horizontal so that only people directly under you are able to read it?

I've been at a golf tournament this week and all the banners flying around made me wonder.

Thanks.

 

[FracCapt]

Weights on the bottom of the banner.

 

[shamrock]

Yeah, I guess that would work!

And here I was trying to think of all the fancy aerodynamic ways to do it.

 

[garf12]

do they just take off with the banner dragging behind them on the runway? How about landing?

 

[falcon20driver]

The company I towed for used a small plastic fin on top of the weight that you could adjust to angle the banner down at the folks on the beach.

 

[GravityHater]

do they just take off with the banner dragging behind them on the runway? How about landing?

They take off, then come back around and hook the banner, yanking it off the ground, climbing like crazy on the stall.
On return they release it over the field then land normally.

 

[falcon20driver]

They take off, then come back around and hook the banner, yanking it off the ground, climbing like crazy on the stall.
On return they release it over the field then land normally.

Whoa, I never got anywhere near a stall in my Super Cub or 180 horse J-3 Cubs!

 

[LR25]

They take off, then come back around and hook the banner, yanking it off the ground, climbing like crazy on the stall.
On return they release it over the field then land normally.

Actually, we dont get a stall on the pick up. You pick it up with a lot of energy and by the time the banner starts flying you are just at a normal slow flight, only the bad banner pilots stall on a pickup.

And if there is any stalling on a pickup, its usually an accelerated stall through the poles, not on top of the pickup, meaning you pulled to hard.

 

[turpentyine]

how much does a job like that pay?
and how much do companies that do this business make?

 

[Beatrix_Kiddo]

Of course it varies between operations, although speaking from my experience pay was $12/hour, flying on average 8 hours/day, 7 days/week. The owner made a large profit considering he did not spend much money to maintain the aircraft.

 

[turpentyine]

i wonder how hard it is to start your own business doing that