A Halifax pilot and longtime Blue Jays fan has taken his assist of Canada’s baseball group to new heights — actually — by tracing the group’s brand throughout the skies over Nova Scotia.
“I wished to root for the Blue Jays, I wished to root for the followers, I wished to do it myself,” Dimitri Neonakis mentioned.
The 2-and-a-half-hour journey, Neonakis says, took about three hours to plan and map out earlier than taking off from Halifax Stanfield Worldwide Airport at 11:27 a.m. native time on Tuesday.
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He began by outlining the maple leaf – the trickiest half, he says – earlier than fastidiously tracing the fowl within the group’s brand with its Cirrus SR22 plane. His route stretched for about 570 kilometers, going from Halifax to the city of Debert and again.
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Whereas he was nonetheless within the air tracing the fowl, Neonakis mentioned somebody texted him asking if he was the one behind the drawing.
“I mentioned, ‘I am an enormous fan. In fact I’m,” he mentioned with amusing.
The 27-year-old pilot says this flight path has attracted extra consideration than most on-line, nevertheless it’s not the primary of its type.
He says he has accomplished practically 30 of those “sky drawings,” some in assist of lacking youngsters or to honor folks like George Floyd, Terry Fox and Jennifer Casey, the Snowbirds member killed in a 2020 accident.
Sometimes, as with the Jays, he flies off for enjoyable – drawing hearts, vacation greetings or Father’s Day needs.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Oct. 17, 2025.
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