Red Bull 'bullies physics' by pulling off another world first as pilot lands a plane and takes it off from a moving train

Red Bull once again studied the laws of physics and then ignored them to pull off another plane stunt.

This time, they landed on a moving train.

Somehow, the landing was actually the easy part, because the second phase of the stunt was perhaps even more difficult.

This explains the top-rated comment below the video – probably one of the cleverest YouTuber comments you’ll have read.

Red Bull will never run out of ideas

There’s actually some debate about the definition of Red Bull as a company.

Is it a drinks company that does marketing on the side? Or is it a marketing company that just happens to also sell energy drinks?

Red Bull made a fortune with energy drinks, and then used it to buy soccer clubs, an F1 team, and a long list of other businesses.

But it’s always used marketing as a phenomenal weapon.

The company has done some incredible stunts over the years.

They’ve taken F1 cars to the desert, filmed a freestyle motorcycle rider jumping between moving trucks, and even flown helicopters upside down.

And now they’ve outdone themselves again.

How they landed a plane on a train

For their latest stunt – in partnership with Rimac, by the way – they asked pilot Dario Costa to land his race aircraft on a moving cargo train before lifting off again in a vertical climb, also from the same moving train.

Easy.

Filmed in the mountains in Türkiye, they used a relatively old train and a Zivko Edge 540, a 400hp aircraft designed specifically for acrobatic stunts.

The pilot was able to land on a tiny container at around 120km/h (65 knots), and took off just seconds later.

It all went well, obviously, which is food for thought.

Because what we’re looking at here is a nine-minute video that shows a plane stunt that only lasted a few moments.

But that’s what we got to see.

What we didn’t get to see were the months of planning, and presumably hundreds, if not thousands, of people involved in the making of this.

And all because, in the words of the video’s top-rated comment, ‘Red Bull is just bullying physics at this point’.

“We sell drinks too, btw,” another user wrote, which is also another fair point.

People always say something is ‘physically impossible’ when it can’t be done, but maybe we should rethink that.

Maybe we should say it’s physically impossible, until Red Bull decides that it isn’t.