This Private Pilot Is The Hero We All Need - View from the Wing

On Tuesday evening a private pilot took this flight over Maryland. His single engine 1969 PIPER PA-28-140, tail # N98131, made a real statement.

Now this is a family site, and even though the 'NSFW' moniker doesn't mean very much when no one is going into the office these days small children walk by while we're hunched over our keyboards at the breakfast bar. So I'm going to block out part of the first word, but you get the idea.

Credit: FlightAware.com

You can see this aircraft's actual flight at FlightAware.com and at FlightRadar24.com.

The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds performed a joint flyover, the Navy and Air Force squadrons performed a tribute to health care workers over Philadelphia, Trenton and New York. But this one solo pilot, I think, truly did the country proud.

The plane is registered to a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. Here's video of the aircraft when it was on the market in 2017.