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Aerial Sign Company tows ads and joking messages
By LYNSLEY ROLLINS
"Your Mamma Sleeps in Teague." No, it is
not an insult; it is half time at the Carolina
State football game and a pilot from the Ae
rial Sign Company is circling Kenan Sta
dium, towing a banner overhead.
Murray Willits, manager of the Aerial Sign
Company, sends airplanes from Raleigh to
Chapel Hill towing advertisements and some
times joking messages 10 to 12 times each
football Saturday. His company is based in
Myrtle Beach, but he keeps a couple of
planes at an airport in Raleigh to cover
school and other events in the Triangle Area.
Some of the banners are entertaining;
others are romantic.
"Your Mamma Sleeps in Teague" has
flown two years in a row. Occasionally fra
ternities get together and send satiric com
ments, Willits said. The pledge class of Tau
Epsilon Phi fraternity surprised their rivals
during a recent game with "ZBT says TEPS
are tops."
Pilots from Aerial Sign Company have de
livered a couple of marriage proposals to the
Hill as well. Once a pilot towed "Susie, will
you marry me?" And later, "Susie says yes."
For a cost of about $250, a pilot circles
four times above a chosen audience with an
advertiser's message. Willits said that he ac
cepts advertising for all types of outdoor
events. "We do elections, outdoor concerts,
anywhere with a crowd," he said. His com
pany also does skywriting.
Aerial Sign Company tows many of its
banners within the Carolinas, but also flies
elsewhere. "We fly from South Florida to
Cape Cod," Willits said. "We do pro football
games, across the country, but since the
strikes we've been limited to college
games."
Aerial Sign has done many Atlanta Fal
cons games from the Myrtle Beach office.
There are two offices in other parts of the
country as well Miami, Fla. and Ocean City,
Md. The Miami office flies at Miami Dol
phins games. The Maryland office has
handled advertising during Baltimore Colts
games.
Willits said that his company gets a lot of
repeat business from advertisers. "We get
proven results here on the beach," he said.
"There's a captive audience. At stadiums,
too there's a lot of students."
Students may recall seeing ads in the air
for Chapel Hill businesses such as Papagayo,
Universal Printing, Woofer and Tweeter and
radio stations WRBX, WRAL and WCHL Wil
lits added that his business was the largest
band
and oldest banner towing company in the
nation.
Anyone wishing to purchase an ad can do
so through Ed Jenkins, who works at Woofer
and Tweeter in Carrboro, Willits said.
Lynsley Rollins is a staff writer for The Daily
Tar Heel.
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high, squeaky sounds of the Go-Cos "We
Cot the Beat". Outfitted in tight purple pants
and a purple and white striped shirt, Kilburn
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