Interesting contrail pattern

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/navy-acknowledges-aircrew-drew-a-penis-in-the-sky-over-washington/article/2641024

I didn't see this posted here here yet, but it's worth sharing. This is actually hilarious. I'll refrain from making any Navy jokes though. I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time...

 

The Navy's response: "The Navy holds its aircrew to the highest standards and we find this absolutely unacceptable, of zero training value and we are holding the crew accountable,” Navy officials said in a statement."

I would argue the no training value part. Perhaps they were just doing instrument maneuvers. I'm sure you could figure out a series of vertical S's that would give you that shape. In fact, I distinctly recall in pilot training that one could plan a T-6 MOA instrument profile in the simulator that would result in a profile view (as opposed to what I guess is a plan view seen here) on the sim control console.