Pilot Benjamin McDaniel traced the GTA 6 logo with his Cessna's flight path over Arkansas in an 8 h 08 flight, Numerama reports.
Sources numerama.com · fr.ign.com
Eight hours in the air for one logo. According to Numerama, a pilot reproduced the GTA 6 emblem with the track of his Cessna, as shown in a Flightradar24 post on X dated November 6. IGN France covered it the same day.
The pilot is Benjamin McDaniel, nicknamed "The Pilot Picasso". Numerama says he flew a Cessna R182 Skylane RG, a small single-engine propeller plane. It took off from Bentonville, Arkansas, on November 5 and landed 8 h 08 later at the same airport, per Flightradar24's history.
Around the logo letters, the track also draws a helicopter, a palm tree, an alligator, a car and an armed woman: the usual Vice City landmarks, in one continuous line.
IGN France stresses the unbroken line from start to finish. In a comment under a Numerama Instagram post, the pilot says he flew everything by hand, without autopilot. That detail comes from the pilot himself; we have no second confirmation. GTAVI_Countdown also shared the project on X, where it passed 17,000 views within hours.
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This is not a Rockstar operation: the sources mention no partnership or commission. It is a fan tribute, like the city ads covered in our piece on the Berlin, Singapore and Melbourne billboards.
Nothing changes for the game, still due November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. But thirteen days out, the wait is producing works you can follow live on a flight tracker. See the release page for the countdown.
Sources numerama.com · fr.ign.com
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