Why not a banana over Texas?

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a . . . giant banana?

A 300-metre airship shaped like a banana is expected to be released in Mexico late next year and allowed to drift across the border into Texas airspace, an unconventional art project that has received funding from the Canadian government.

If all goes according to plan, the helium-filled balloon made of bamboo and synthetic paper will circle over Texas for up to a month. It will drift in a low orbit some 20 or 30 kilometres above the Earth until it disintegrates.