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DQ News: Aerial Advertising That Anyone Can Do

A Connecticut man has turned his motorized parachute ultralight flying machine into an advertising opportunity. He’s renting advertising space on his inflatable wing:

As the ultralight aircraft swept down near the cannons on Tuesday, the underbelly of the 500-square-foot parachute boasted in huge letters, “Westport Wash & Wax 203-CAR-WASH.”

Scott Tiefanthaler, owner of the car wash on Post Road East, had not seen the parachute before Tuesday night, and he inspected it gleefully as Ruggles unfurled it prior to takeoff at Wakeman.

“He’s a customer at the car wash, and he doesn’t live too far away,” he said of Ruggles, a Hillspoint Road resident. “We began talking, and he said he was interested in turning his hobby into a business and one thing led to another.

“From an advertising standpoint, it’s hard to cut through all the clutter on the Internet, but this they’ll see,” he added.

Tiefenthaler said he believed in the concept so much that he sprung $5,000 for his own “chute” with the company logo and phone number emblazoned across.

“They call it a chute, but basically it’s an inflatable wing,” Tiefanthaler said.

Ruggles said he has tried other ways to turn his recreation into a moneymaker, doing candy drops at birthday parties in Westchester County and filming aerial footage of outdoor weddings.

But advertising, he says, is the course he has charted, and says that future parachutes will not be as costly.

“Basically, the sky’s the limit,” he quipped about business possibilities.

Unfortunately, Ruggles says he cannot just replace the lettering on each parachute since it is built into the fabric.

Photo by pmarkham.

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