Airbus A400M Test pilots in Spain draw a Giant ‘Dick In A Box’ In The Sky.
Just when you thought we had reached the peak of flying phallic expression, an A400M transport flying out of Seville, Spain went ahead and traced what appears to be a massive ‘dick in a box’ over the Gulf of Cadiz.
This drawing, like the Marine Corps drawing over Southern California last month, wasn’t visible to the naked eye but could be clearly seen via flight tracker.
A partir de ese momento, el vuelo fué muy relajado. #A400 👌 pic.twitter.com/2PniEGsqm5
— AirspottersORG (@airspottersORG) November 16, 2018
According to the tracking software, the aircraft responsible for this omage to Saturday Night Live’s famous “Dick in a Box” music video starring Andy Sandberg and Justin Timberlake was an Airbus A400M Atlas — a military transport aircraft used to replace dated airlift platforms like Transall C-160s and older Lockheed C-130s in European military forces like Germany, the U.K., and France. Airbus maintains a manufacturing plant for the A400M in Seville, Spain; so this piece of modern art was likely the handiwork of Airbus test pilots operating out of the plant.
Two Marine Corps pilots who have not been identified have reportedly been grounded after drawing a similar phallus over the Saltan Sea with their T-34C single-prop training aircraft last month.
Although we can’t know for certain, but this flight is very likely a test flight as Seville is where assembly of A400Ms take place. So maybe testers got into the Christmas spirit a bit early and decided to pay tribute to Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake’s greatest gift of all.
There’s always the possibility that this is just some crazy fluke, but I think it’s pretty safe to say that the chances of this being a coincidence are very low.
