A skilled pilot embraced the Christmas spirit with a festive stunt while flying over Germany and Denmark.<\/p>\n
Flying the world\u2019s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, the pilot drew the outline of a Christmas tree – complete with decorations – in the sky on 13 December.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Airbus explained it was a normal internal test flight before the delivery of a new aircraft, adding: \u201cThere are hundreds of these flights every year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe routing of these flights is flexible, they take-off and land at the Airbus Airport in Hamburg-Finkenwerder,\u201d they told The Telegraph.<\/p>\n
\nAn early Christmas gif from the @Airbus A380.<\/p>\n
See how Airbus drew their tree at https:\/\/t.co\/YQPtQ179tG pic.twitter.com\/ah1eBzFGGY<\/p>\n
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) December 13, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cThanks to the co-operation of the air traffic controllers (Eurocontrol and DFS), it was possible to fly that Christmas tree flight path.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the idea of test pilots and engineers – an Airbus greeting to all aviation fans during this Christmas period.\u201d<\/p>\n
They joked the flight, in which they tested systems like in-flight entertainment, was an \u201cearly Season\u2019s Greetings\u201d from one of the flight test teams in Hamburg.<\/p>\n
\nThe best tree topper is definitely an airplane. https:\/\/t.co\/CEadIGqKtt pic.twitter.com\/bhyxebQkWt<\/p>\n
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) December 13, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The plane later headed towards northern Denmark to create the Airbus A380\u2019s ‘tree topper\u2019.<\/p>\n
Flightradar24 confirmed: \u201cThis is a test flight that would be conducted regardless of the particular flight path.\u201d<\/p>\n
– Meet the pilot who loves to create beautiful sky art<\/p>\n