Article: Advertising Flier; For Skywriter Wayne Mansfield, the Winds of Change Altered His Course

While a relentless onslaught of sunny days has many Washingtonians praying for rain, skywriter Wayne Mansfield would like a little less haze.

After postponing his latest stunt several times this summer due to overcast skies, Mansfield stitched his letters into a near-cloudless sky just south of the Mall yesterday afternoon, as tourists in line at the Washington Monument tried to guess the message.

"Compare? Company?" offered Cindy Kalbfell after seeing the first three letters spelled out. Both she and her husband, Ed--in town from Ohio with their two boys--are private pilots as well as avid sky- divers. Neither had ever seen skywriting in action.

Ed Kalbfell tried to imagine writing words in ...

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