IT'S A ROCKETSHIP!!!

A Navy pilot decided it would be fun to do a little creative skywriting, and this was the result:

Look! Up in the sky! It's a...

Here's a better look.

The plane and its crew are based at Naval Air Station Whidbey in Washington State and are going to have some 'splaining to do.

One the one hand it is kind of funny (not to mention someone has wicked flying skills) but it's also terribly inappropriate, especially with all the political and celebrity sex scandals in the news these days. I'm not sure what made the pilot think this was a good idea. Plus, can you imagine being outside with your child and having to come up with an explanation when they ask you what's that thing in the sky?

Personally, I'd use this one from the criminally underrated (IMO) 2002 film Death to Smoochy:

Wait for it...

Pics snicked from the linked article.

Updated: Here's another article that I just had to link to because they brilliantly referred to the pilot not only as a "Maverick-wannabe", but also as "cocky". I wish I'd thought of that. #writerenvy