A skilled pilot embraced the Christmas spirit with a festive stunt while flying over Germany and Denmark.
Flying the world’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, the pilot drew the outline of a Christmas tree – complete with decorations – in the sky on 13 December.
An outline of the flight path at 40,000ft was shared by Flightradar24, a site which tracks air traffic in real time, after the plane took off from Hamburg for the five-hour flight.
A spokesperson for Airbus explained it was a normal internal test flight before the delivery of a new aircraft, adding: “There are hundreds of these flights every year.
“The routing of these flights is flexible, they take-off and land at the Airbus Airport in Hamburg-Finkenwerder,” they told The Telegraph.
An early Christmas gif from the @Airbus A380.
See how Airbus drew their tree at https://t.co/YQPtQ179tG pic.twitter.com/ah1eBzFGGY
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) December 13, 2017
“Thanks to the co-operation of the air traffic controllers (Eurocontrol and DFS), it was possible to fly that Christmas tree flight path.
“It was the idea of test pilots and engineers – an Airbus greeting to all aviation fans during this Christmas period.”
They joked the flight, in which they tested systems like in-flight entertainment, was an “early Season’s Greetings” from one of the flight test teams in Hamburg.
The best tree topper is definitely an airplane. https://t.co/CEadIGqKtt pic.twitter.com/bhyxebQkWt
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) December 13, 2017
The plane later headed towards northern Denmark to create the Airbus A380’s ‘tree topper’.
Flightradar24 confirmed: “This is a test flight that would be conducted regardless of the particular flight path.”
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