The twin-turbine AgustaWestland royal helicopter lifted off from the palace helipad at midday, climbing rapidly through the coastal haze before banking eastward toward the vast interior of the Arabian Peninsula. As the glittering coastal skyscrapers vanished behind them, the landscape below transformed into an endless, magnificent wilderness of crimson and gold sand dunes stretching to the curvature of the earth. This was the Rub' al Khali—the Empty Quarter—the largest continuous…
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