Red Bull Air Force. We don't need no stinkin' parachute!

[Fielder 3,644]

LOL!

"All eyes will be up to the skies above California on Sunday as two cousins dare to accomplish a never-before-seen air stunt."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/pilot-cousins-attempt-1st-plane-swap-midair/story?id=84172966

[Stratocruiser1 134]

What a neat trick. What could possibly go wrong?

[W2DR 1,859]

go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong..........

Edited April 20, 2022 by W2DR
Kant spel

[RLJR 14]

Man is constantly inventing ways to kill him self.

[Matthew Kane 1,343]

You guys are pessimists, the world needs the one in a million people like this with crazy ideas, otherwise Christopher Columbus would have just stayed home. Risk takers have their place in human development 

I think it's awesome and when well planned the risks are drastically reduced, as Benjamin Franklin once said.... "failing to plan is planning to fail"

Or to quote Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith.... "I love it when a plan comes together" 🤣

[Fielder 3,644]

[Luis Hernandez 566]

Are groups elegible for Darwin Awards?😝

[cmpbellsjc 2,960]

Apparently it didn’t work and they lost one plane but fortunately no one was killed or injured. Video of the stunt in the link.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/24/plane-swap-stunt-unsuccessful-arizona/7434361001/

[lownslo 592]

11 hours ago, cmpbellsjc said:

Apparently it didn’t work and they lost one plane but fortunately no one was killed or injured.

As it turns out, the FAA had previously denied the organizer's request to fly this stunt.  So now, the Feds are looking into Red Bull's operation to "switch pilots between two airplanes"... kinda the same way they investigated Trevor Jacob. 😬

[lownslo 592]

A link that includes the FAA's Denial of Petition before the flight: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/failed-plane-swap-stunt-prompts-faa-investigation/story?id=84295598

[rmeier 473]

Juan Browne covered this on his Blancolirio channel today:

 

[Matthew Kane 1,343]

My view is; I still don't care if these two want to jump between airplanes as they planned, but I didn't realize they did not have consent from the FAA, seeing as this was a Red Bull sponsored event you would have thought they would have received a consent beforehand, but I guess not.

If the FAA doesn't give permission they should not have done this, if they don't have permission from the FAA then go somewhere else who will, this could be good publicity for another country like over the desert outside Dubai if they give permission.

Edited April 26, 2022 by Matthew Kane

[lownslo 592]

Aaannnnd both pilots have been... SUSPENDED!!  No great surprise.  This will be the case that folks cite "When the FAA says NO they mean NO!" as a warning not to cross the Feds.😁  Have to wonder how long the YouTubers will continue trying to monetize their aviation adventures by doing... well, not smart and/or unapproved stunts.  In this case at least one of the pilots was also fined almost $5000US.

More here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faa-suspends-licenses-two-pilots-involved-failed-red-bull-stunt-rcna28506

[RobPol471 173]

 

https://thehill.com/news/3486186-faa-revokes-licenses-of-pilots-in-failed-red-bull-plane-swap/

[cmpbellsjc 2,960]

11 hours ago, RobPol471 said:

 

https://thehill.com/news/3486186-faa-revokes-licenses-of-pilots-in-failed-red-bull-plane-swap/

Since there was already a topic on this, i merged your post to it.