By plane through two tubes: the Italian stunt pilot Dario Costa was the first person to fly through two road tunnels near Istanbul on Saturday. Costa started in a specially modified racing plane in the first tunnel – at an altitude of less than a meter, surrounded by solid concrete.
“It was very emotional. We worked on this project for more than a year. As long as it’s not finished, you don’t know what’s going to happen. You don’t know what to expect. You don’t know whether it will go well. Me I’ve never flown in a tunnel in my life. Nobody has ever done it. So I had a big question mark in my head whether everything would be as we expected or if there was something to improvise, fix, too improvise. “
After the 360 meters of the first tunnel, he caught the entry into the second tube – 1160 meters long – perfectly. The flight through the tunnel took only about 43 seconds, with an average speed of 245 km / h.
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