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It's not so much skywriting as it is skydoodling.

To pass the time during a routine test flight, a team of Boeing pilots used their own flightpath to draw a giant outline of the very plane they were flying -- a 787-800 Dreamliner. The picture they sketched stretched over 22 U.S. states and took 18 hours of flight time to complete.

"The nose is pointing at the Puget Sound region, home to Boeing Commercial Airplanes," the aircraft maker said in a statement.

"The wings stretch from northern Michigan near the Canadian border to southern Texas. The tail touches Huntsville, Alabama," it added.

There's no word on how flight controllers reacted to the rather unique flight path. But the folks at Flightradar24, a flight tracker website, took note when all but the trailing edge of the starboard wing was complete.

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/893073858797948928

And they weren't the only ones to notice. 

Back in February, a team test flying a Boeing 737 'Max' pulled a similar maneuver, writing the plane's moniker in the sky.

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/893123687234375680

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A team test flying a Boeing 787-800 over North America decided to have some fun with their flight path. So over an 18-hour period, they drew an outline of the plane over 22 U.S. states.

Boeing Dreamliner crew draws enormous outline of their plane in the sky

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