COMMERCIAL BANNERS FOR DRAGGING
In the past 15 years, LITE FLITE has been manufacturing a lot of commercial banners for dragging by plane.
If you would like to order a commercial banner, please keep in mind that your message should be visible from a kilometers distance. Anything closer will just be an advantage. This means, that the simpler the message is, the better it will be seen. Any small prints will not be seen. Black letters of 2 meters height at a white background can be read at a kilometers distance. White letters at a black background is not very good, as the letters optically drowns in the black surface.
There are some limitations regarding the size of a commercial banner. The limitation is very much due to the aircraft pulling power, and in practice the limit is around 100 m2. In Denmark, most of the planes approved for dragging is of such a size where 80 m2 is the limit.
There are three methods for creating a commercial banner: Application, printing and painting.
Application means that the message, i.e. text and logo, will be sewn into the banner in diverting colors. This method provides the sharpest, brightest and durable result. Application has some limitations, complicated logos and images in multiple colors are either impossible to make or extremely costly.
With modern multicolor printing technology almost everything is possible. The printed image will be sharp and bright and has every color right. As the printing colors are placed at top of the fabric, they will be subject to the force of wind at 100 km/h. The colors will degrade and over time the image will be blurry.
Painting means that the colors are applied as paint by hand. When it comes to expenses, this is the cheapest way. At the same time, this method is not very accurate, and letters and images will be a bit blurry. Seen from a kilometers distance, this can not be seen but it is not optimal. In addition, the colors will be exposed for the same forces as the printed banner, and colors will quickly degrade.
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