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Some Air Force Cadets Got in Trouble for Drawing Penises in the Sky

The flights themselves weren’t unsafe, but Air Force officials would rather their very expensive equipment wasn’t used to draw genitalia.

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It is every pilot’s duty, at some point in their career, to safely and securely—without putting anyone at risk—use flight tracking systems to draw some penises in the sky. Not with skywriting smoke. That would be gauche. But with GPS tracking. It feels like a rite of passage. Unfortunately, it’s a lot less acceptable when you’re a professional pilot or a military pilot, which is exactly the problem facing a group of cadets from the Finnish Air Force.

During a training exercise on April 13, cadets flying out of Tikkakoski used their flight paths to create shapes that, according to publicly available tracking........

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