Arthur Roy Smith was an American pilot. After Charles Ames, he was the second overnight mail service pilot to die on duty.
Art Smith (pilot)
Art Smith posing in the muzzle of a 12-inch mortar at the Presidio of San Francisco during the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition
Airmail pilot Arthur Roy Smith in 1924
Art Smith with his mother in Honolulu, Hawaii, aboard the Siberia Maru
Skywriting is the process of using one or more small aircraft, able to expel special smoke during flight, to fly in certain patterns that create writing readable from the ground. These messages can be advertisements, general messages of celebration or goodwill, personal messages such as a marriage proposals and birthday wishes, or acts of protest.
Skywriting over Oshkosh, Wisconsin during EAA's Airventure in 2008.
G-EBIB, one of the S.E.5 former fighter aircraft used for skywriting by Major Jack Savage's company between 1922 and 1934.
Dot matrix skywriting
Aircraft towing a banner with a marriage proposal