Police helicopter makes penis-shaped flight path – but not on purpose

A police helicopter service accused of making a penis-shaped flight path insisted it was accidental.

The police air service NPAS denied that the phallus-like figure ffsb appeared on aircraft tracking websites was intentional.

Some residents in the Hampshire countryside were woken up by the helicopter on Monday evening after it is said to have circled low for several minutes.

One of them was Gordon Bird, 53, from Ancells Farm in Fleet, who said his daughter was woken up by the aircraft, which he claimed was circling for at least 15 minutes over houses.

When he checked online for the flight path, he said he was left ‘shocked’ after seeing the shape it had made.

A tracker shows a shape resembling genitalia above Blackbushe Airport.

He told the BBC: ‘The actual buzzing around our estate lasted for 15 or 20 minutes, the actual drawing of the phallus … took about half an hour, and the overall flight, as per flight radar-type websites, show it as being an hour.

‘I’m not angry, I am upset at the waste of resources.’

But NPAS said its flights do not follow any planned paths and that it was assisting police officers on the ground tracking a car refusing to stop.

A spokesman for NPAS, which covers England Wales, said: ‘Flights do not follow defined or predetermined flight plans as they, by their very nature, are dynamic and respond to ever changing, and unpredictable, circumstances on the ground.

‘The flight was conducted for a legitimate policing purpose, in support of Thames Valley Police.’

However, there have been incidents of flight tracking used to draw funky shapes on purpose.

In August, a pilot flew in an eight-mile-long formation above Clacton-on-Sea to draw a bin in a nod to Count Binface, who was challenging Nigel Farage in the snap by-election.

Another aviation enthusiast pulled an iconic stunt in Poland when he proposed to his fiancée by creating the words ‘marry me’ on the Flightradar24 website.

The Finnish Air Force made headlines earlier this year after cadet pilots drew phallus-shaped flight paths in central Finland.

The force said the pilots were students from the military reserve course and that they would face ‘disciplinary’ measures.

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