What does it take to land a plane on a tiny helipad 700 feet above Dubai? Watch racing pilot Luke Czepiela do it for yourself. 🛬
Publicity stunts have become something of a side trade for the 56-story Dubai tower.
In preparation for the flight, the carbon-fiber STOL had been modified by US aviation builder Mike Patey, who dropped nearly 150 lbs. from the overall weight. The Carbon Cub weighed just shy of 1,000 lbs. for the record flight. “Mike also added a nitrous-oxide system that gave me the equivalent of 230-hp for ten seconds—perfect for takeoff,” says Czepiela. The extensive planning behind the flight, he added, made it “crazy but not stupid.
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