{"id":220688,"date":"2025-10-17T21:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220688\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:29:13","slug":"halifax-pilot-draws-blue-jays-logo-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220688\/","title":{"rendered":"Halifax pilot draws Blue Jays logo in the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\tBy Fatima Raza<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted October 17, 2025 5:12 pm<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated October 17, 2025 5:13 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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A Halifax pilot and longtime Blue Jays fan has taken his support for Canada\u2019s baseball team to new heights \u2014 literally \u2014 tracing the team\u2019s logo through the skies over Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI wanted to cheer on the Blue Jays, I wanted to cheer the fans, I wanted to do it for myself,\u201d said Dimitri Neonakis.<\/p>\n

The two-and-a-half-hour trip, Neonakis says, took about three hours to plan and map out before he took off from Halifax Stanfield International Airport at 11:27 a.m. local time Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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He began by outlining the maple leaf \u2014 the trickiest part, he says \u2014 before carefully tracing the bird in the team\u2019s logo with his Cirrus SR22 aircraft. His route stretched roughly 570 kilometres, looping from Halifax to the town of Debert and back.<\/p>\n

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While still in the air tracing the bird, Neonakis says someone messaged to ask if he was the one behind the drawing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m a big fan. Of course I did,\u201d he said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

The pilot of 27 years says this flight path has drawn more attention than most online, but it isn\u2019t his first of its kind.<\/p>\n

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He says he has completed nearly 30 of these \u201csky drawings,\u201d some in support of missing children or to honour people such as George Floyd, Terry Fox and Jennifer Casey, the Snowbirds member killed in a 2020 crash.<\/p>\n

Occasionally, like with the Jays, he takes to the air for fun \u2014 sketching hearts, holiday greetings or Father\u2019s Day wishes.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 17, 2025.<\/p>\n

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