Italian stunt pilot Dario Costa did something incredible on his way to bag a Guinness World Record. He didn¡¯t seek the heights but the depth of a tunnel.??
By flying through the two tunnels on the Northern Marmara Highway in Istanbul¡¯s ?atalca district, Costa broke the world record of longest tunnel flight by plane, Euronews reported.?
He flew his specially modified?Zivko Edge 540 racing aircraft through the tunnel Pass system on Saturday.?
Precision skill was needed as Costa maintained an altitude of less than three feet with solid concrete surrounding his aircraft on all sides as he flew through?two tunnels on the Northern Marmara Motorway in Catalca Mevki.
His flight through tunnels T1 and T2 lasted for a total of 43.44 seconds. The daring pilot soared staggeringly low with merely a meter (3.28 feet) above the ground and had only 4 meters on either side of his specially made plane. The whole length of the flight was 1,610 meters.??
Costa passed through the two tunnels at an average speed of 245 km/s, setting a Guinness World Record.
The tricky part of the record attempt was the open space between the tunnels, usually hitting with hard winds, but Costa mastered that challenge and celebrated the occasion by doing a loop after his success.??
¡°I¡¯d never flown in a tunnel in my life ¨C nobody had ever done it ¨C so there was a big question mark in my head whether everything would go as we expected,¡± said Costa. ¡°It was a big relief, of course, but big, big happiness was the main emotion. For me, it¡¯s another dream come true,"?Dario Costa said after his remarkable feat.?