El Al airlines 'draws' Boeing 747 outline over Mediterranean Sea in honor of retiring fleet
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An aircraft with El Al Isreal Airlines just “drew” what is probably the largest self-portrait ever created.
El Al, Israel’s national carrier, paid tribute to its soon-to-be-retired fleet of Boeing 747s by outlining the shape of the popular plane in the sky over the Mediterranean, as seen in a diagram of its flight path.
As a send-off to its fleet of Boeing 747s, El Al arranged to "draw" a portrait of one in the sky. (FlightAware24)
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Nov. 3 flight, which departed from Rome and landed in Tel Aviv, diverted just west of Cyprus and lowered its cruising altitude by 10,000 feet before starting its plane-shaped flight path, Business Insider reported.
The outline itself appears nearly as wide as the island of Cyprus; a legend provided at FlightAware24 indicates it measured over 100 miles long.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The stunt also took around an hour to perform, as calculated by One Mile at a Time, based on previous Rome-to-Tel-Aviv flights.
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The Nov. 3 flight marked El Al’s final flying of a Boeing 747. El Al is reportedly replacing the planes with Boeing 787 Dreamliners, per the Jerusalem Post.