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The record-breaking flight that started as a Las Vegas marketing gimmick
An old Ford pickup truck barreled down an empty highway full of sand, swerving to keep up with the single-engine, fixed-wing airplane puttering several feet overhead. From the passenger seat of the truck, a man angled a bucket up toward another man who was …