Love is in the air.
A Kansas pilot withstood some serious G-Force to spell out the perfect marriage proposal to his girlfriend on the flight tracking database she regularly checks to make sure he’s safe.
After meticulously plotting out the perfect route, Terry Williamson took skywriting proposals to a new level on Wednesday by spending two hours twisting and turning at high velocities at around 7,500 feet in the air to pop the question to his girlfriend, Taylor Burcham.
“Will you marry me, Taylor?” the route spelled out in cursive.
“Of course, I did say yes,” Burcham told local KAKE.
Burcham said she was blown away by the stunt when she did her regular check-in on Williamson’s flight while working at a coffee shop.
“I always view the Flight Radar just for safety, mainly just kind of to see where he’s going, how fast he’s going, elevation, things like that,” she added. “I was pretty surprised. It was unexpected.”
Williamson, who described the feat as the “most difficult flying” he’s ever done, said he was inspired by the classic skywriting proposals when he came up with his plan, but he wanted to take things further.
It was only while he was in flight on his Bonanza P-35 plane that he learned why most skywriters typically opt for a simple, “Marry Me,” message.
“After about the middle of the second word, I found out why they only do two words,” Williamson said. “I felt like I was going to get sick.
“There was a lot of Gs, a lot of turns, and it was very strenuous. It was really rough, but definitely worth it,” he added.
The pilot noted that the message came in clear on his flight tracker and on Flight Radar, but not so much on FlightAware. The two-hour strip spanned more than 30 miles from Pratt to Arlington.
While the couple doesn’t have a date set yet for the wedding, Williamson is hoping to host an aviation-themed party for the special day.
