Boeing Made a Plane With a Plane So It Can Plane While It Planes

From Popular Mechanics

Late Wednesday evening, a Boeing 787 took to the skies from Seattle, Washington to embark on a nearly 18-hour flight with a planned distance of nearly 16,000 miles over the United States. That's more than enough distance to go coast to coast more than once, so what was it doing? Drawing a giant plane in the sky:

Boeing does not appear to have released any information on the purpose of this particular flight, though it's almost certainly a test flight, perhaps one being used to test new Rolls Royce engines. Boeing is no stranger to using its test flights to draw designs in the sky for flight trackers, as the Washington Post points out. Earlier this year, a 737 MAX wrote the word MAX:

As of the time of this writing, the plane is about two hours from landing. Well, the smaller one. The larger will just keep flying westward over the US forever.

H/t Ryan Radia

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