2:30 a.m. In Gorna Oryahovitsa, almost everyone is asleep. In one house, an alarm clock rings deafeningly. The man gets up sleep-deprived, having gone to bed at 10:30 p.m. Nevertheless, he does a 40-minute cardio workout, takes a shower, and by 3:50 a.m. Nikolay Kalaydzhiev and his team are already at the airport. At 5:25, the pilot boards the plane to make the first of 1021 landings and take-offs within a single day.


