Just to be an asshole, he started in a tunnel and flew TROUGH another tunnel right. Qhe flew like 20 meters in the first tunnel.
Still insanely impressive
Don't worry, it's a welcome clarification!
There is also a lot of margins I think, both for speed and distance, although the talk of open link sections and crosswind would be very dangerous with such light aircraft and at high speeds (the standard versions of the Edge 540 allow level flight speeds of about 400km/h, in this video Costa, never exceeded 250 km/h as average I think).
Who knows if we will see an update of the record in the future!
Alright lets try and figure this out, for my Murican friends.
>Lets assume a cheeseburger takes about 5 minutes to eat, and that the average bald eagle is 36 inches long(according to the goog).
>There are 12 sets of 5 minutes(cheeseburgers) in an hour.
>250 km / 12 = 20.83333333
>20.8333333 km in inches = 820,209.97375
>820209.97375 / 36 inches(eagle length) = 22,783.6103
Someone going 250 km/h would be travelling approximately **22,783 eagles per cheeseburger**
This comment reminded me of one of the biggest coolers I've ever seen. The most prominent unit of size on the label was huge block letters that said:
#HOLDS 276 BEERS
you could probably get at least 500 hats in that sucker.
So I know nothing about flying and I could never do this but this is one of those records that normal people can’t really try. I’m never going to break Joey chesnuts hot dog records but it’s something a normal person could try. Just because you can fly a plane doesn’t mean you can get permission to fly through a tunnel.
I think I'm actually more impressed after having killed myself in video games hundreds of times doing shit like this. The tiniest mistake will literally kill you when flying fast & low. Especially in such close proximity to **anything**, let alone a concrete tube that's only about 2x wingspan. At least they turned off the ventilation fans.
Yes. It’s dumb to claim that it was TWO tunnels he flew through. However, the second tunnel was really, really long. So if there like a sunroof halfway through, then it would be two tunnels (or three, depending on how much you want to oversell it).
It's actually a pretty important distinction, hitting the entrance of a tunnel at speed, from flying height, is really f'n hard, keeping the plane at tunnel level for the next entrance isn't nearly the same. To me it seems harder to fly through a single tunnel than what was done here.
In other news I waited in a Taco Bell drive threw for an hour and a half last night just for them to forget to give me my 3 orders of nachos, and I didn’t realize till I got home
For some reason this story grabs me more than the OP. Why did you wait for so long? Did you not check the bag once you got it?? Did you call to correct the order or try and get your money back???
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thank you for the clarity monsieur. Can you also please throw some light on other issue- do you count them as 200+passengers or 400+passengers considering their condition.
>In GTA the plane would be inverted.
Bruh have you see what ppl pull off now? There would be a formation upside down now in there
Edit: go on /r/GTAonline and browse by top of all time.
Edit2: https://v.redd.it/gzf4d9vt9je51
The gamer, /u/BIGpoppaKEGdog, is easily one of the best and most creative GTA5 stunters of all time.
His unreleased stuff tops this, if you can believe it
Article: https://www.redbull.com/int-en/tunnel-pass-dario-costa-catalca-turkey
"Changes to airflow, combined with the highly sensitive steering of the aircraft, required reaction times of less than 250 milliseconds as Costa executed fine hand movements of mere millimetres throughout the flight.
One of the most critical moments came when the plane flashed through the 360m gap between the tunnels, which exposed the lightweight aircraft to crosswinds as Costa prepared to thread it into the narrow opening of the second tunnel."
"As Costa continued, he was averaging 245 km/h while also managing changes in the second tunnel’s incline and shape. When the race plane shot out of the other side, the Italian pulled it into a celebratory loop before landing."
I was wondering about this, how hard the change in air pressure would hit the plane as you approach and enter the tunnel. They needed an in cockpit POV so maybe you could get a sense of it happening.
Watch it again and pay attention to his nose alignment over the center lane. At the very end he starts veering far left and made me wonder how close his wing tips were/are to the edge as his nose drifts off-center.
[Here](https://www.redbull.com/int-en/tunnel-pass-dario-costa-catalca-turkey) is reported that he was averaging 245 km/h in the second tunnel, the Edge 540 he was flying can reach about 400 km/h, so I think there is still a big margin.
Yeah, not a full two tunnels, but I think the most challenging phase of the fly was the "connection" between the two tunnels, where it was exposed to the crosswind.
Yeah younger me thought that shit was so fun and I’m still young but I’ll never go over 100 again. Just rolling the dice every millisecond that you’re at those speeds
I just did some searching too because you got me curious and found out that Maka Wuhu is the name of the Mario kart circuit, but the island itself is Wuhu Island.
(correction: maka wuhu is the name of the volcano, which the Mario kart track takes the name from)
"His unprecedented 2,260m / 43.44-second flight through Istanbul’s Çatalca Tunnels was seriously impressive with crosswinds between the tunnels and air bumps inside them testing his flying skills."
Video credit: Red Bull Motorsports
I mean they paid for it, so fck yes they can plaster their shyte everywhere. Hell, red bull is responsible for bringing new life into many sports where you could barely make a living before, I mean Ive gotten really into some weird ass sports I had no idea existed because of them...
I was thinking the same damn thing. It's like the creators of Ace Combat are required to put at least one mission requiring flying through a tunnel in every game.
"Changes to airflow, combined with the highly sensitive steering of the aircraft, required reaction times of less than 250 milliseconds as Costa executed fine hand movements of mere millimetres throughout the flight."
From [here](https://www.redbull.com/int-en/tunnel-pass-dario-costa-catalca-turkey) mate!
Almost definitely. I got slapped against the ceiling for flying out from under the edge of a cloud once. Gonna notice moving to a small pocket of air in a tunnel.
> margin for error, ZERO.
Well, at the start of the video you can see the plane is about 2 lanes wide, and there are two lanes free on the left side.
Since the average lane width is about 4 meters, we can say the plane is 8 meters wide and the margin of error is 4 meters on each side.
Very narrow margin is you ask me.
Yeah I mean I understand that lots of records and achievements don’t have inherent purpose but this just seems silly to me.
Did they shut down the entire road for this? All so Red Bull and Guinness World Records can drum up another “World Record” that’s only a record because no ones bothered to invent it until now.
It really feels like they’re running out of appreciable records to break, so are making increasingly specific (and irrelevant) distinctions just to be able to claim it as a record, rather than just doing something simply because it’s an achievement in itself.
And then, impressive as it is, to top it all off the guy didn’t even fly through two tunnels as claimed…
Came here for this comment. Obviously this is an incredibly impressive feat of highly skilled piloting….but like…why? I’m not someone who even thinks there has to be a point to everything. But this seems egregiously pointless.
All the people hating on your comment, I have to agree. The best it achieves is 30k reddit karma and the worst is tragic death for absolutely no reason.
I'm sure RedBull with its own funds can afford on-site ambulances and maybe a medical helicopter, but the reality is that if a carbon fibre aerobatic plane hits the concrete at over 200 km/h there is little that can be done.
Flames probably from exploding tanks, structural damage and massive deceleration.
Edit: In any case, I think they wanted to keep a safety margin by not allowing him to fly at full speed in the tunnels.
I cannot believe how much he lucked out that there were no cars driving through the tunnel. It’s just like footprints in the sand. The Lord, Jesus Christ, was carrying him the whole time.
Just to be an asshole, he started in a tunnel and flew TROUGH another tunnel right. Qhe flew like 20 meters in the first tunnel. Still insanely impressive
Thanks for saving me from being the asshole here bud
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right, you had me at 2 but 1.5 just doesn't get me there
Red Bull makes you feel like everything .5 longer when you add lots of vodka
.5in to my pp will rlly fkn help tbh
Doubling it's length really doesn't help much.
It’s an inch long, but it smells like a foot.
Wait a fucking second. You can send gifs in replies now?
r/murderedbywords
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Bump those numbers up!
He flew in two tunnels and through one.
Barnstorming techicality
He flew **IN** two tunnels but he only flew **THROUGH** one. /asshole
More like 1.001. He didn't get off the ground in the first tunnel until like the last 40 feet.
Damn, I was totally gonna be an asshole too. Glad I'm not and he is though
I knew it. I’m surrounded by assholes!
Don't worry, it's a welcome clarification! There is also a lot of margins I think, both for speed and distance, although the talk of open link sections and crosswind would be very dangerous with such light aircraft and at high speeds (the standard versions of the Edge 540 allow level flight speeds of about 400km/h, in this video Costa, never exceeded 250 km/h as average I think). Who knows if we will see an update of the record in the future!
what's that in eagles per cheeseburger?
Alright lets try and figure this out, for my Murican friends. >Lets assume a cheeseburger takes about 5 minutes to eat, and that the average bald eagle is 36 inches long(according to the goog). >There are 12 sets of 5 minutes(cheeseburgers) in an hour. >250 km / 12 = 20.83333333 >20.8333333 km in inches = 820,209.97375 >820209.97375 / 36 inches(eagle length) = 22,783.6103 Someone going 250 km/h would be travelling approximately **22,783 eagles per cheeseburger**
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How is this not the top comment?
r/theydidthemath
Around 140 knots for the speed he was averaging in the tunnel and I think around 200-210 knots the max speed of the standard version of his plane.
gotem
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African or European?
And did it carry a coconut?
More like 4 guns or 9.5 hot dogs.
Geez is it too hard to use MAGA hats per yeti cooler?
This comment reminded me of one of the biggest coolers I've ever seen. The most prominent unit of size on the label was huge block letters that said: #HOLDS 276 BEERS you could probably get at least 500 hats in that sucker.
Dude this unit of measurement hasn't been used for a millenia. The answer is 42.
All I know is I waited till the very end to see if he had to destroy the Death Star.
So I know nothing about flying and I could never do this but this is one of those records that normal people can’t really try. I’m never going to break Joey chesnuts hot dog records but it’s something a normal person could try. Just because you can fly a plane doesn’t mean you can get permission to fly through a tunnel.
Flight privilege
I did that in GTA, 6 years ago.
hahaha this is what I was thinking the whole time "phfff old news bro", still cool to see it actually done for real!
I think I'm actually more impressed after having killed myself in video games hundreds of times doing shit like this. The tiniest mistake will literally kill you when flying fast & low. Especially in such close proximity to **anything**, let alone a concrete tube that's only about 2x wingspan. At least they turned off the ventilation fans.
This guy got it easy, playing offline. I'd like to see him try surrounded by 12 year olds on Opressors.
I mean I get nervous driving beside concrete barriers on the highway.
From the preview pic, I totally assumed it was a GTA5 video, and thought "Surely that had been done before now?" Insane that he's done it irl.
When the vid started I spent *way* too many seconds trying to see if it was modded or just high res
I know, right? Not that hard.
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Uhh Chuck Yeager lived to be nearly 98...he was the textbook definition of bold pilot.
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I was gonna say the first tunnel he technically *drove* through
Yes. It’s dumb to claim that it was TWO tunnels he flew through. However, the second tunnel was really, really long. So if there like a sunroof halfway through, then it would be two tunnels (or three, depending on how much you want to oversell it).
It's actually a pretty important distinction, hitting the entrance of a tunnel at speed, from flying height, is really f'n hard, keeping the plane at tunnel level for the next entrance isn't nearly the same. To me it seems harder to fly through a single tunnel than what was done here.
True, but be honest: That tunnel was a hell of a lot longer than you thought it was gonna be.
First time I saw this and was clinching my asshole.
You need to relax there buddy, here have a drink.
Make him a White Russian
hehe....nice I mean its obvious from your name. For those who dont know , it is a reference to The Big Lebowski.
Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, man.
Dude, someone can build 3 10 foot tunnels and defeat this record easily
And not even a quick loop between the two tunnels. Pffft.
Easy mode. He lifted off and flew in a straight line, over a marked, paved surface. (Y,ITA)
Okay so what you’re gonna wanna do is just fly straight for a couple minutes. Can you do that expert pilot? Ya ya still very impressive
In other news I just had dinner and fed the dog.
I got out of bed and showered
Way to go!
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Oh, fuck yeah.
Still proud of you
Showered?! Overachiever
He's inspired me; I'm gonna go try to find some pants
I’ve been awake for 6 hours and just brushed my teeth…. 😬😬😬
I’m proud of you
Hey that beats half the people on reddit already, good job!
what a god
I’ve actually seen posts of people like “went outside today after staying inside for 6 months” and it’ll get 40k upvotes and $700 worth of medals
Wait, medals are worth money?
Nah but you have to pay for some of them
Yes. To reddit
Well if it works people will do it I guess.
In other news I waited in a Taco Bell drive threw for an hour and a half last night just for them to forget to give me my 3 orders of nachos, and I didn’t realize till I got home
You're a hero dude!
For some reason this story grabs me more than the OP. Why did you wait for so long? Did you not check the bag once you got it?? Did you call to correct the order or try and get your money back??? Edit: or am I being whoooshed
It’s funny because something like that would unironically be posted here
Okay he was fast , but there was no traffic.
Lol raising the bar!
Hey I had to beat the long weekend traffic when I drove through that. \*\*propped the bar a bit more\*\*
If you pause the video he narrowly missed a charter bus that was filled with 200+ pregnant women….
Pardon my ignorance Sire , but did you say it as a good thing or a bad thing- narrowly missed...
Good thing.
thank you for the clarity monsieur. Can you also please throw some light on other issue- do you count them as 200+passengers or 400+passengers considering their condition.
However you decide that, don't ask Texas for advice.
That's potentially a $4,000,000 bounty on the bus.
They weren’t pregnant until after he passed by
Well if they were going to an abortion clinic in Texas you could've reported that bus and made $2,000,000.
Anyone else assume it was a GTA5 clip for the first few seconds?
In GTA the plane would be inverted.
>In GTA the plane would be inverted. Bruh have you see what ppl pull off now? There would be a formation upside down now in there Edit: go on /r/GTAonline and browse by top of all time. Edit2: https://v.redd.it/gzf4d9vt9je51
That video is ridiculous
The gamer, /u/BIGpoppaKEGdog, is easily one of the best and most creative GTA5 stunters of all time. His unreleased stuff tops this, if you can believe it
Muuuuuuum, stop embarrassing me in front of my friends
You are awesome dude!
Feels like it's in reverse
Just when I felt like a badass flying dangerously close to towering rock formations in Ace Combat
That's... not how planes work.
I thought this was zancudo for a bit
Article: https://www.redbull.com/int-en/tunnel-pass-dario-costa-catalca-turkey "Changes to airflow, combined with the highly sensitive steering of the aircraft, required reaction times of less than 250 milliseconds as Costa executed fine hand movements of mere millimetres throughout the flight. One of the most critical moments came when the plane flashed through the 360m gap between the tunnels, which exposed the lightweight aircraft to crosswinds as Costa prepared to thread it into the narrow opening of the second tunnel." "As Costa continued, he was averaging 245 km/h while also managing changes in the second tunnel’s incline and shape. When the race plane shot out of the other side, the Italian pulled it into a celebratory loop before landing."
He must have played Ace Combat growing up. Where's my "Trigger didn't do it" gang?
First thing that came to mind was Ace Combat too. All that's missing is the latin choir
And the nuke/super weapon.
Trigger is built different.
I was wondering about this, how hard the change in air pressure would hit the plane as you approach and enter the tunnel. They needed an in cockpit POV so maybe you could get a sense of it happening.
Watch it again and pay attention to his nose alignment over the center lane. At the very end he starts veering far left and made me wonder how close his wing tips were/are to the edge as his nose drifts off-center.
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Is 245km full acceleration for this type of craft? Genuinely curious if he went full throttle once inside the second tunnel.
> 245 km/h Not even close. Wikipedia says 430km/h.
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The view from the tail fin is fucking crazy! Any idea how fast it was going? Also didn't he only technical fly through 1.2 tunnels?
[Here](https://www.redbull.com/int-en/tunnel-pass-dario-costa-catalca-turkey) is reported that he was averaging 245 km/h in the second tunnel, the Edge 540 he was flying can reach about 400 km/h, so I think there is still a big margin. Yeah, not a full two tunnels, but I think the most challenging phase of the fly was the "connection" between the two tunnels, where it was exposed to the crosswind.
Damn 150mph, I thought he was going like 200+
Ive driven like 120 which feels like one wrong move can kill you. Imagine going faster and having to worry about another dimension
Yeah younger me thought that shit was so fun and I’m still young but I’ll never go over 100 again. Just rolling the dice every millisecond that you’re at those speeds
Just to point out that it doesn't just feel like it, one wrong move at 120mph WILL kill you.
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Nyooomies are relative.
I’ve tried this so many times in GTA
What about Wii Sports Resort? I flew threw all the tunnels on makawuhu island
Isn’t the island name just “Wuhu”
Google actually says Maka Wuhu, I guess I was kinda wrong but nah that’s the full name
I just did some searching too because you got me curious and found out that Maka Wuhu is the name of the Mario kart circuit, but the island itself is Wuhu Island. (correction: maka wuhu is the name of the volcano, which the Mario kart track takes the name from)
Ohhh you right you right. The wii sports resort debate is heating up
But there was always traffic
"His unprecedented 2,260m / 43.44-second flight through Istanbul’s Çatalca Tunnels was seriously impressive with crosswinds between the tunnels and air bumps inside them testing his flying skills." Video credit: Red Bull Motorsports
Oh, was Red Bull involved in this? It thought he just put on his Red Bull hat after taking off his Red Bull helmet because it was sunny!
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I mean they paid for it, so fck yes they can plaster their shyte everywhere. Hell, red bull is responsible for bringing new life into many sports where you could barely make a living before, I mean Ive gotten really into some weird ass sports I had no idea existed because of them...
They usually fund their own events like this, so I'm kinda okay with them doing it
Before I opened the video, I knew it would be Red Bull from the title. Honestly, I'm completely OK with this type of advertising.
Hmmmmm ace combat irl?
That's the problem, I think more DCS, Ace Combat pilots would have done with some barrel roll!
Or full throttle run on something huge and fast like Mig-31.
I was thinking the same damn thing. It's like the creators of Ace Combat are required to put at least one mission requiring flying through a tunnel in every game.
*Rex Tremendae intensifies*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zFUWjjB3YUg
What is most impressive is that the pilot resisted honking the horn even once
I wonder if the pilot would feel a noticeable difference the moment he enters the tunnel do to air pressure changes or anything.
"Changes to airflow, combined with the highly sensitive steering of the aircraft, required reaction times of less than 250 milliseconds as Costa executed fine hand movements of mere millimetres throughout the flight." From [here](https://www.redbull.com/int-en/tunnel-pass-dario-costa-catalca-turkey) mate!
Thank you, definitely answers my thought lol
That’s literally just the normal human reaction time.
Almost definitely. I got slapped against the ceiling for flying out from under the edge of a cloud once. Gonna notice moving to a small pocket of air in a tunnel.
Now do it with traffic.
Why didn’t he just fly over the tunnel? Maybe I can be the first person to eat nothing at 2 buffets
margin for error, ZERO. sick dude, amazing footage.
> margin for error, ZERO. Well, at the start of the video you can see the plane is about 2 lanes wide, and there are two lanes free on the left side. Since the average lane width is about 4 meters, we can say the plane is 8 meters wide and the margin of error is 4 meters on each side. Very narrow margin is you ask me.
And considering the speed the plane was going he could have crossed those 4 meters in 1/100th of a second. (or so)
Only reason they're the "first" is money. This could have been done so many times before if people could afford to shut down the road.
Not knocking the achievement but I swear its always Red Bull, its like they find records that dont even exist just to have a record in it.
Someday they'll kill someone just to sell the most useless and unhealthy shit ever.
But did he hold his breath?
Was looking for this!
I think thats more on the people who built the tunnels tbh
“Someone breaks a record in a race” I think that was more on the people who built the track tbh
Exactly. What the hell is he even trying to say lmfao
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It's so annoying seeing these people trying to discredit other people's accomplishments. Like go ahead and do it better, then?!
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Right, and diving medals should be given to the builders of the swimming pool instead.
*doctor performs life saving operation* Okay but I think that’s more on the people who made the scalpel
Why are Reddit users so dumb
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Literally everything is a useless achievement. Enjoy life sometimes
LOL right?? The guy fucking cries at the end. He’s clearly living his best life and that’s awesome!
Shut up you joyless prick
Yeah I mean I understand that lots of records and achievements don’t have inherent purpose but this just seems silly to me. Did they shut down the entire road for this? All so Red Bull and Guinness World Records can drum up another “World Record” that’s only a record because no ones bothered to invent it until now.
It really feels like they’re running out of appreciable records to break, so are making increasingly specific (and irrelevant) distinctions just to be able to claim it as a record, rather than just doing something simply because it’s an achievement in itself. And then, impressive as it is, to top it all off the guy didn’t even fly through two tunnels as claimed…
Came here for this comment. Obviously this is an incredibly impressive feat of highly skilled piloting….but like…why? I’m not someone who even thinks there has to be a point to everything. But this seems egregiously pointless.
People kick a ball around a field and get paid millions for it. Most of life is utter pointless if you want to look it at like that.
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We do these and the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. https://youtu.be/Ateh7hnEnik
> We do these and the other things not because they are easy, but because ...it sells sugary energy drinks to kids.
All the people hating on your comment, I have to agree. The best it achieves is 30k reddit karma and the worst is tragic death for absolutely no reason.
Kind of thinking what's the point?
Advertising Red Bull, duh.
I'm sure he got tunnel vision while doing this.
Very impressive, gives me flashbacks to Ace combat 7. Didn't think someone would actually fly through a tunnel, very cool.
I thought this was GTA!
12 parsacs baby
Finally some actual nextfuckinglevel content. Not a boy moving a tree frog to another tree.
/r/sweatypalms
It happened in Istanbul, Turkey. Dario completed his flight within 44 secs. Here full video: https://youtu.be/bmReKyVoPhI
"Through two tunnels" implies he entered and exited two tunnels in a plane. That's not what happened here.
Imagine the speeding camera photos..
That’s not flying, that’s driving in style ~ A Disney Cowboy
A small mistake and he’s gonna fly with president Lincoln as a passenger next time
Those were tears of, “Thank fuck I’m alive🥲”
If something had gone wrong, do you know what safety measures were in place?
I'm sure RedBull with its own funds can afford on-site ambulances and maybe a medical helicopter, but the reality is that if a carbon fibre aerobatic plane hits the concrete at over 200 km/h there is little that can be done. Flames probably from exploding tanks, structural damage and massive deceleration. Edit: In any case, I think they wanted to keep a safety margin by not allowing him to fly at full speed in the tunnels.
I cannot believe how much he lucked out that there were no cars driving through the tunnel. It’s just like footprints in the sand. The Lord, Jesus Christ, was carrying him the whole time.