They say very few aviation records are left to be broken, but here’s one that’s never been tried before, at least as far as we know. Wakeboarding world champion Bernhard Hinterberger recently became the first person ever to skim across the water while being towed by an airplane in flight.
Hinterberger and his team accomplished the feat on the Po, Italy’s longest river, behind a Zlin Savage kitplane. The Cub lookalike pulled Hinterberger at speeds of around 45 to 55 knots, far faster than wakeboarders normally travel on the water behind boats.
