Michael Jones at the controls of the plane he piloted around southwestern Ontario Wednesday in a path that draws out the perfect shape of the Maple Leaf.
In a bit of fancy flying that was in equal measures patriotic, precise and polite, an Ontario pilot showed Donald Trump exactly what he thinks of the U.S. president's recent moves to challenge Canadian sovereignty.London pilot Michael Jones took to the skies over southwestern Ontario and flew in the shape of a maple leaf on Feb. 5, 2025. The trip took 2 hours and 3 minutes, covering 426 km.
The path of the 426-kilometre flight, which began and ended at London International Airport, draws the stem and three points of a perfect maple leaf. The perimeter of his path covers a wide swath of land between lakes Huron and Erie. Once he had the idea, Jones got out a paper map of southwestern Ontario and plotted out a rough path that would draw a maple leaf.
Jones owns the plane but leases it to the Diamond Flight Centre, which in turn rents it out for flight training. Not happy with how U.S. President Donald Trump is treating Canada, Jones used his maple leaf flight path to send a pointed but polite message to people in the United States.
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