Red Bull pilot Dario Costa has completed what is being described as “a world-first” aviation stunt – landing and taking off from a moving cargo train traveling at 120 km/h in Afyonkarahisar, Türkiye.
The thrilling daredevil stunt took place on February 15, 2026, along a 2.5 km railway section, where Costa piloted a Zivko Edge 540 aerobatic aircraft onto the ninth container of a moving freight train before accelerating into a vertical climb from the same platform. The entire sequence – approach, landing, stabilization and take-off – was completed within a 50-second window.
To match the train’s maximum operational speed of 120 km/h (65 knots), Costa reduced the aircraft to a near-minimum controllable airspeed of 87 km/h (47 knots), significantly below its usual landing speed of 148 km/h. [Read more…] about Red Bull pilot lands plane on moving cargo train and takes off again in ‘world-first’