A small plane lands on the ‘helipad’ of a skyscraper hotel in Dubai/Red Bull
2023.03.18 Sat posted at 16:30 JST
（ＣＮＮ） A Polish pilot has successfully landed a light aircraft on the roof of the famous Burj Al Arab Jumeirah hotel in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE). .
The 56-story hotel’s helipad is located 212 meters above the ground and has a width of
27 meters.
Pilot Lucas Chepiera took on the challenge by operating a specially made light aircraft capable of landing and stopping at a distance of 21 meters. “The biggest challenge was the lack of any external landmarks to gauge distances and such that you would normally find at an airport with a runway several hundred meters long,” he recalled.
The acrobatics, which is sponsored by energy drink company Red Bull, is planned from 2021 and has completed 650 landing trials so far.
Chepiera’s original occupation is a pilot of the Airbus A320. But he is also known for feats like landing a plane on a wooden pier in his native Poland, as well as being a World Champion in the Red Bull Air Race.