After three of postdoctoral study at UCSD, he went to Germany in 1978 to work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Aeronomy (now MPI for Solar System Research).
Now, the project took three years to master from start to finish, but he pulled it off, and he was able to pull off stunts like this on a bike way high up in the sky.
There have been close calls before. The FBI is still investigating a drone that came within 200 feet of an Alitalia flight in New York earlier this year.