A Canadian pilot flew a flight path in the shape of a raised fist in honor of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter movement

• A Canadian pilot flew in the shape of a raised fist on Thursday to show support for George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement.
• Dimitri Neonakis flew on the almost two and a half hour flight path across Canada and posted images of the pattern on social media.
• "Today I flew this 330 nautical mile flight pattern which took the shape of a movement symbol which I respect and support," Neonakis wrote on Facebook on Thursday.

A Canadian pilot took to the skies on Thursday to show his support for the Black Lives Matter movement and George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for over 8 minutes.

Dimitri Neonakis designed and flew on a flight path shaped like a raised, clenched fist, a symbol that has become associated with the Black Lives Matter movement.

The flight path, which started and finished near Halifax, Canada, lasted a total of 2 hours and 25 minutes, according to tracking data from FightAware, a flight tracking data company. Neonakis told Business Insider that it took him about four hours to draw the pattern on an app.

Neonakis posted images of his flight path on Facebook and wrote that he flew 330 nautical miles in the pattern of "a movement symbol which I respect and support."

The image of the fist could not be seen by viewers on the ground and was only discernible through radar technology. FlightAware posted a video to Twitter that tracked the shape of the flight path.

Neonakis told Business Insider that this project was his way of doing his part to speak out against racism. He added that he has done many similar flight pattern drawings in the past.

"A lot of people took out on the streets to protest, support, and show their support and everything," he said, adding, "I pretty much did the same thing, didn't I? But I used the air as a means."