And this is why the women outlive us.
Posted on 04/20/2022 2:38:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The pilots will attempt to skydive into each other's planes live on Sunday. All eyes will be up to the skies above California on Sunday as two cousins dare to accomplish a never-before-seen air stunt.
Luke Aikins and Andy Farrington -- longtime pilots, skydivers and members of the Red Bull Air Force aviation crew -- will attempt the first "plane swap," where they will fly their planes close together, put them into a nosedive and then skydive into each other's aircraft before making a safe landing.
Aikins said in a statement he was inspired to do the stunt 22 years ago after seeing a photo in an aviation magazine and has spent a long time preparing for this moment.
It’s the pinnacle of my career, and my goal is to inspire the world and show that anything is possible. You can set your mind on something that at times seems wild, crazy and unattainable, but through ambition and creativity, you can make it happen,” he said.
Pilots preform a test dive during training on March 6, 2022, in San Luis Obispo, Calif., in...Read More The stunt, which will be livestreamed on Hulu on Sunday at 7 p.m. ET., includes multiple parts that have been planned out between Aikins, Farrington and their team of engineers.
The pair will take off in their own Cessna 182 single-seat aircrafts and fly to an elevation of 14,000 feet.
They will then pitch their planes into a synchronized nosedive, stop the engines and use a custom airbrake that will hold the planes in a controlled descent as they exit their own aircraft.
Aikins and Farrington will freefly skydive toward each other’s planes, catch up to the aircrafts, enter the cockpits, disengage the airbrake systems, restart the engines and take control of the planes.
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Given enough time and money, man will always find a way to hurt, maim, or kill himself.
And if they fail where do the aircraft crash?
**It must be difficult to practice a stunt like this.**
I didn’t read the story, but I assume for practice they had a co-pilot sitting in the left seat, in the left plane; and a co-pilot sitting in the right seat, in the right plane, ready to fly the planes, if the thrill seekers had failed to reach each other’s plane by a designated alttitude.
They probably pulled the doors off both sides; and for the big stunt pulled the other front seat out, since there would be no co-pilot.
Engine off, but master on, autopilot slaved to nav point, with a decent, and glidepath parallel to the other plane.
Turn off the master, and try it. :)
Don’t stop, Rex
Don’t stop, Rex
Don’t stop, Rex.
BLAM!
Cessna182s aren’t single seat. They seat 4. They are single engine. I don’t think I’ve read a single news article in years that didn’t get important details wrong.
Gravity isn’t what stops them.
What is their chutes get tied up with the planes?
When you are nuts, you are nuts; what more is there to say.
Summer of 1980 I was digging fence posts where a section of it ran close to the back of a house. It was hot as blazes and an old woman there offered ice water and to sit in the AC for a while.
One wall in the living room was covered in photos of her as a young woman in all kinds of daredevil acts. Wing walking on a biplane, hanging upside down from a tower crane, walking on top of the wall on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and one of being shot out of a cannon.
The craziness is in some people’s blood just like the two pilots who are going to attempt a mid air plane swap.
IIRC, there has already been someone who jumped from one piloted plane to another.
Because they can.
Or because they think they can.
If they die in the stunt, they will have died doing what the love doing best.
And this is why the women outlive us.
Red Bull wingsuit pilots have already done a (probably) harder stunt of “flying” into a plane with very dissimilar initial speeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL9sNrOlK-I
Big thing is to avoid the prop or getting caught up on the plane.
These two will practice this a lot and I’m guessing it will go off smoothly.
I hope they do it over the ocean
If any beers need to be held, I’m available.
That’s why you DONT do it.
Cut away and go with the emergency chute.
Abandon the plane.
When I was seventeen a second or two would have seemed like an eternity. :-)
I mean, nothing could go wrong. Right?
Right.
This is as far as I will read. (reply #1)
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