https://www.businessinsider.com/lufthansa-pilot-drew-15-mile-long-penis-shape-sky-diversion-2023-8
After a Lufthansa pilot was asked to divert their aircraft, they spent 16 minutes doing loops in the shape of a penis over Sicily's east coast.
I wonder what's the chance the was random. With all the planes that have made holding patterns over the years, I'm sure some look phallic by chance. Or maybe the tower usually makes sure not to accidentally draw that?
Yep. 90 degree turn, 90 degree turn, hold.... 90 degree turn, 90 degree turn, hold... Repeat as long as necessary. From day 1 of flight training. It's also standard when waiting your turn to land, maintaining altitude to keep different planes in their envelopes.
Circles run the risk of losing altitude and/or airspeed.
Simple, you lose energy and get disoriented when changing direction. When flying in a circle, you're constantly changing direction and at an angle to the ground. So you are consistently being disoriented as well. So you're constantly on the throttle or have to rethrottle up to gain altitude doesn't make for constant holding pattern.
planes uses air pressure from the air below to lift using their wings. merely having the plane tilted to one side makes it so there's less air pressure holding the extremities of the wings, and less so on the wing whose end has the least altitude. the result is that the tilted plane slowly yaws continuously more to the side it's tilted to, which causes more roll, causing more changes to the force on the wings, causing more yaw, on a feedback loop that ultimately makes the plane lose altitude.
combine that with the plane continuously pointing its wings upwards relative to itself, and you get a constant air pressure that is pointing more directly to the bottom of the plane and less efficiently to the rotors and turbines whose job is to propel the plane forwards, which then makes the plane lose speed.
"Guys...I...I think we just drew a dick in the sky!! I COULD FEEL IT!" - One astute passenger nobody believed
If they didn't want pilots to draw dicks in the sky with multi-million dollar aircraft they wouldn't make them so easy for pilots to draw.
i think it's one of the largest airlines in the world, their hub is Frankfurt iirc so they offer flights almost anywhere and if you connect it's via Frankfurt
No that’s a looftlighter. Lufthansa was the kid who got lost in the forest with his sister Luftgretel.