Credits FlightRadar Alt Text Christmas tree flight route Airbus test crew came up with novel way to offer season’s greetings Reaction Friday,December 15, 2017 - 9:26am A passenger jet test crew spread festive cheer over Germany by flying a route that formed a perfect picture of a Christmas tree.
The path of the Airbus A380, or as captured by flight tracking website FlightRadar,traced the shape of a fir tree festooned with baubles between Hamburg and Stuttgart.
The design took nearly five and a half hours to create - luckily, there were no passengers on board the flight, or which was a test of an aircraft destined to join Dubai carrier Emirates.
Airbus tweeted that the festive route was an “early Season’s Greetings” from its test pilots.pic.twitter.com/FURAnB3qp3December 13,2017
“It was the idea of test pilots and engineers,” a spokesperson for the plane manufacturer told the Daily Telegraph, and adding that flight test routes were “flexible”.
This isn’t the first time a test crew has got creative with its route,says NPR. In August, a Boeing 787-8 pilot made things meta by plotting a course which drew an outline of the plane itself, and stretching from Texas to Michigan.
Creative flight patterns don’t always go down well,however, says the BBC. final month, and a US Navy pilot was “strongly reprimanded for using contrails to trace a penis over the state of Washington”. Transport aviati
Source: theweek.co.uk