Boeing Dreamliner "drawing" a Dreamliner over the USA

[Wokkafans]

Nice bit of advertising if a bit costly. Any ideas on why?

Flight BOE044

https://www.flightradar24.com/BOE004/e54ad6b

https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/893075721194745857

[KRviator]

Not the first time. Check out their skywriting while doing the initial ETOPS testing for their 787.

At least someone at Boeing has a sense of humour!

[Cazalet33]

[tdracer]

A lot of the FAA required flight testing consists of little more than flying around at various cruise conditions for hours (e.g. the ETOPS testing KR referenced).
I don't know anything specific about this flight, but if you need to go fly around for several hours to please the feds, why not do something interesting...

[Big Eric]

Interesting "test" flight by a 787 today.

[PAXfips]

Right now a 787-10 is doing the boring version of it:
https://www.flightradar24.com/BOE036/e56ffe5

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Check R&N - it's on there too.

[luchtzak]

Airbus immediately responded to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner sky art drawing

[hoss183]

Actually it looks more like he drew a meat + 2 veg

[J.O.]

Originally Posted by Wokkafans

Nice bit of advertising if a bit costly. Any ideas on why?

A 17-hour engine test. When one has that much time to kill, one must get creative.

[KelvinD]

And in Jet Blast too. 3 threads for the same topic?

[Wokkafans]

Mods moved it