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Writing the sky with the GPS logger

Hat tip to Steven of the A mile of runway will take you anywhere blog for noting a recent post by Lynol Amero on EAA’s Oshkosh365 Forums. Lynol planned and flew a route in his Ercoupe in order to spell out "Merry Christmas" and he captured the result with his GPS logger. As you can see from the result, it took a considerable amount of planning and precision flying to achieve:

GPS_Merry_Christmas

To see an interactive version of the GPS track, simply click here.

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  1. TJ Shembekar says

    December 17, 2010 at 03:51

    I was inspired by Steve's post and plan to try "simplified" skywriting myself this weekend.

    See for yourself here: http://www.tjflyingadventures.com/2010/12/planing…

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