 The pilot increases the elevator backpressure so the nose wheel of the landing gear has minimal contact with the ground.On 14 February 2020, the Guinness World Record for the longest-distance wheelie in an airplane was set in a Cessna 172 at Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California on its runway 17.The pilot kept the plane's nose wheelie from touching the asphalt surface for a distance of 14,319 feet.