Banner Tow USA uses Piper PA-25 Pawnees to tow the banners, which are a variety of sizes and can be as much as 40 feet tall and 110 feet long. The planes fly 500 feet above the beach at about 60 ...

Then you hear that familiar noise. The rumble of a single-engine prop plane and buzz from low-flying propellers causes you, and most everyone else on the sand, to look up. Then there it is.

Since Monday, planes carrying large banners with phrases like "We're over LW. I'm moving on" and "I needed more than u (sic) gave, LW," circled downtown Columbus every day at around noon. A banner ...