An El Al pilot got artistic in honor of a retiring Boeing 747's final flight. (Photo: FlightAware)
Sometimes water cannon salutes just aren’t enough to mark a major aviation milestone. That’s why El Al Airlines retired its final Boeing 747 with a giant Etch A Sketch-in-the-sky tribute on Sunday.
On Friday, the Israeli airline invited its Twitter followers to watch as the iconic aircraft flew a “historic flight path to create a ‘sky painting’ of a Boeing 747” en route from Rome to Tel Aviv.
FlightRadar24.com, which broadcast the flight path live online, noted that at about two hours into the flight, the pilot dropped to 10,000 feet and began using the flight path to draw what the airline called a “sky painting” of a 747.
Over the course of the next 90 minutes or so, FlightRadar24 posted screenshots documenting the sky painting as it took the shape of a 747.
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