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By Ben Hooper
Sept. 7 (UPI) -
- An Italian stunt pilot created a new Guinness World Record when he flew a custom-modified plane 1.4 miles through a pair of tunnels in Turkey.
Dario Costa, 41, took his modified Zivko Edge 540 race plane for a 1.4-mile flight through the twin Catalca tunnels
along the Northern Marmara Highway in Turkey, setting the Guinness World Record for the longest tun- nel flown through with an airplane.
Costa said it took about a year of practice to pre- pare for the 43.44-second flight.
"I'd never flown in a tunnel in my life
-- nobody had ever done it -- so there was a big question mark in my head whether everything would go as we expect- ed," Costa told Red Bull, which sponsored the attempt.
"It was a big relief, of course, but big, big hap- piness was the main emotion. For me, it's another dream come true."
Miami Couple Who Helped Save Falling Cat Say They Bring American Flag To Every Game
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By Edmund DeMarche | Fox News
The Miami couple who helped save a cat by using their American flag as a safety net told local media that they bring the flag to every Hurricane home game they attend in Hard Rock Stadium.
"My wife takes the U.S. flag with us to all of our football games, and we normally Zip-tie it to the handrail, and so we snatched it off the handrail and used it to break the cat’s fall," Craig Cromer told WSVN.
Cromer, a 21-year U.S. Air Force veteran, and his wife Kimberly spoke about the "eventful" night on "Fox & Friends" Monday.
"My wife and I looked up and we could see the butt of a animal, we couldn't tell what kind it was," Cromer said. "I think it was trying to be saved from up above, which was actually driving it
further down. They couldn't reach it. And the students were very passionate about, you know, saving the cat."
Video taken by fans during Saturday night's game against Appalachian
State went viral.
Footage showed the cat dangling about 50 feet in the air -- on the side of a balcony. The cat eventually fell and -- much to the crowd's delight --landed in an extended American flag below. The crowd erupted as though the Hurricanes connected on a game-win- ning drive.
Kimberly Cromer said she didn't know where the cat came from or how it got to the balcony during the game but it was wearing a collar.
The WSVN report said the cat eventually left the venue with a woman on Saturday night.
Stunt Pilot Flies Through Turkish Tunnels, Sets Guinness World Record