Exactly.

🟡 Two extremely lousy pilots. Period. Okay, they messed it up because they did it for the clicks and a couple of thousand bucks. And that's the reason why they are lousy pilots. They are totally unprofessional. The two hot shots are proud enough to show us how stupid the are (sorry, guys) : BFD. And why the .... would you do something like that, jumping out of a perfectly working airplane? Are you bored oder just ... slow? IMHO you guys are lousy "pilots", indeed. Oh, and the lousy excuses at the end of the clip... priceless.... jeezzzzz. Amateurs. Greets from the left seat, sunshines. I'm not jumping, because I can.

Wish I'd thought of this. Couldn't say it better.

A swift kick in the Jacobs eh?

LMAO!!! That was the best B Pace !

My thoughts too. Hamburger from the sky would have launched a lot of memes.

I think that was the biggest risk involved in thid stunt

I know when it missed my heart almost stopped, to bad.

Why not design the stunt to stall the prop to prevent the injury? Weird call especially in a plane where you can recover the airspeed.huh.

@@JeanLaValley oh i remember now. they have to maintain a pretty quick fall speed so the divers even have a chance. the plane was way more surface area so it’ll fall slower unless it’s literally powering toward the earth.

Oh come on, cheap shot, he had the chute secured in his arms. But that would be pretty rad to see what happens. Next stunt..

I don't know anything about skydiving, parachutes or helicopters, so I may not be aware of some important factors here- but to me it seems like the propellers (don't even know if that's what they're called on helicopters) would be continually blowing everything downward onto the ground. Wouldn't that negate any real risk of it sucking up the chute?

@@4Shaman20 vortex’s get created when your on the ground rotating with no lift. When the add power the force hits the ground and out lifting the helicopter. But when it’s just on the ground it’s just not good practice

Too close to the hamburger pump for sure.

​@@4Shaman20 the risk is more getting blown away from the helicopter and dragged by the chute, if the chute catch the wind. It looked like he put his wing in a bag before getting close to the helicopter.

Permanently, or for a period of time?

They alr back was a 1yr suspension i believe​@@houseofsolomon2440

​@@houseofsolomon2440 Their license was revoked in May of 2022 for 1 year. They are both back flying now.

@@JasonParham83 ☑️

Something not enough people are talking about. Losing his grip on the wing spar, even just a little too much momentum could have carried him forward into the spinning propellor, and this would have been a much more tragic occurrence. One key safety implement that should have been in this stunt is a prop brake to completely nullify the chance of making contact with a spinning propellor

Not close enough

Yeah, that was scary. He obviously had a LOT of confidence in his free-fall "flying abilities".

Same concern here. I know Red Bull stints are supposed to badass and stuff, but the proximity to the prop just seemed a bit stupid.

Bunch of fear mongering ❄️’s. You can say that about literally anything. One wrong move in a drifting stunt for a movie, shooting a gun, riding a bike lmao. The point of the stunt is to swap planes mid air did u not understand that? How is he going to do that without getting near the propellor or plane?

They'd probably die first from hypoxia and/or hypothermia if the airplane is at cruising altitude

@@cleytongaucho3596 I'm sure a partial refund could be arranged in that event.

Lol!

@@Reach41 This dude commenting towards you like you were serious cracks me up

i really dont know why planes doesnt have parachutes in case of technical failture...

I thought the same also. Did they account for the prop still spinning.

There's a new medal being given to some people: "Trevor Jacobs price for blatant disregard to safety by voluntary crash". Medal comes with a revoked license.

I saw that spinning propellor and thought that was the stuff of nightmares right there, wildly windmilling in the breeze and he come close to the thing.

its pretty terrifying, sure. but lets not pretend they were stupid enough for that risk never to have occured to them, they had planned this for a long time. also, with good free falling skills of which they had, they could avoid it pretty easily. its not like its going to suck them in.

@@socks2441 Especially with the open doors of the plane trying to suck them back in, I guess.

Karen's everywhere rejoice!

@@kinvert he's not wrong tho. This is incredibly dangerous.

Madlads

They won't take a vacation from flying anything. If they disregarded the FAA in illegally doing this reckless stunt, the loss of their licenses will never keep them from flying. Some people just believe the rules don't apply to them.

No they won't. You think that just because they willfully disregarded the FAA this once that they won't do it again? I suppose you stand for gun confiscation too.

@FROY LÁN the guy that faked an engine out and jumped out of his plane with a parachute and let it crash

That would have prevented him getting video of the plane crashing.

@@phlodel ya the "accident" wouldnt have looked like an accident if he did that lol

He didnt give a fuck about that plane. Negligent

Would not have mattered, he still would not have a pilots licence. Most likely these guys won’t have one much longer either.

They got off easy it seems.

They could apply for reinstatement one year after the license revocation date. Luke Aikins, the lead pilot was also fined $4,932. He didn't bother to tell the team that the FAA said the stunt could happen only with an FAA exemption, which was later denied, but Aikins thought it was a good idea to do it anyway.

They should be able to do this if it was a free country

​@@elliotkeitges8165what if the planes crash and kill innocent people on the ground? Freedom doesn't mean being able to do whatever you want to do. Doing things that can hurt others impinges on those peoples right to live a safe life in pursuit of happiness.

@@cremebrulee4759 Arguing using extreme circumstances is not a valid point. Try again.

Good!

don't think so, babe.

@@franzinelli-2000 FAA revoked both of them yesterday.

@@james-p as it should be.

@@james-p You mean they expect you to stay in the aircraft you're piloting? What a bunch of mother hens.

Don't even get me started. S--t like this is going to make 1500 hours the minimum for a PPL.

Why would it ?

​@@ryanpayne7707tf

It wasn't an issue of waiting for approval, the FAA explicitly denied approval for the stunt.

@@jaffacalling53 They could have probably made tweaks until it got accepted, but they couldn't bother because who cares what the fun-killers say

​@@DemsW This but unironically

@@DemsW The FAA's reason for refusing permission was that leaving the planes unoccupied would unduly affec the safety of the flights. The only way I can see them giving permission would be if each plane had a second pilot who remained in the cockpit, but I doubt they'd be interested in doing that version of the stunt.

🤣😂

but you can't prove it is possibile if you never try.

It should not be done. I don’t care if they do it. I think they should have the freedom to do it. I think it was stupid. I have no respect for these guys. They are brainless fools…. It was barely interesting

He was very disappointed and embarrassed that he didn't make his swap. Even tho everyone was encouraging and telling him that everyone is safe so all is good. He didn't see it that way. He would have been stoked if he made his swap like the other pilot did so I think that his ego was shot.

Maybe. But there's one glaring difference between This stunt and Jacobs' stunt - - Jacobs took off knowing that the flight would end in a plane crash. These guys didn't.

@@Kara0ki they knew the probability was high. That's why faa denied them.

We can only hope so.

@@Kara0ki not really. They and everyone knew the risk was high for crashing. That changes nothing.

Truth... And they aren't any different. I suspect these two will get the same punishment as Trevor Jacobs.

Well... maybe because of the distinction of not crashing the plane intentionally?

If it's true that this stunt was specifically denied, then yeah. Their pilots licenses will be going away forever, no doubt about it. At the least. I feel like they are trying to get by with being official and having safety coordinators and all of that stuff. But the FAA will bring down the hammer on them because of all this recent plane jumping stuff.

@@radeklukas With aggravated distinction of having formally asked for FAA permission for doing the stunt and having had it explicitly denied by the FAA, and just... disregarding the denial completely, doing it anyway. Like Trevor Jacobs, those two pilots will also likely lose their licenses.

The difference is that the other guy did it without notifying the FAA and then tried to play it off as an accident were as these guys were denied by the FAA and did it anyway.

Sarcasm isn't dead.

And the FAA denied them the permit, guess they did it anyway

Yes. And they did the stunt south of Eloy near Sawtooth, a private airstrip. Quite unsafe since most of the time we avoid overflying Eloy due to skydiving operations by remaining west of the I10, except this time planes and jumpers are falling out of the sky west of the 10 and we don't even know about it. Very unsafe

@@ndegepilot Being the corporation that Red Bull is, they should've done this in some corner of Dubai or out in the Australian outback or something. They're morons for bringing this kind of heat on themselves. Stupid stunt for likes and shares, thanks for putting another stain on general aviation, Red Bull.

Curious why Red Bull isn’t liable as the corporate sponsor for a clearly illegal activity (per the FAA denial letter). Don’t know how they can pay for the event, get all the publicity yet not suffer any legal consequences…

They had spotters to confirm sterile airspace, and it was a severe clear VFR day. The planes were down in less than 1 minute. The planes had automatically deploying safety parachutes. The pilots had parachutes. The planes had tons of engineering done on their chute systems and speedbrakes. Tons of money and planning went into making this happen, money that supported the American economy. I have no doubts that their safety plan passed the insurance underwriters scrutiny. The FAA had no place to block this while any fool can fly up to 17,500' in a paramotor without a single lesson or understanding of airspace.

Sounds like a great place for pilots with diabetes.

It’s too dangerous to leave the office.

Salty?

Sounds like I never want to fly anywhere near Sacramento jurisdiction. But hey, it's crapifornia, so what would you expect?

@@illiniwood or who took the magic jabs.

They are for sure not spoiling anything. They are living life why dont u do the same? Many people like how it tastes. And redbull pays athletes really well and hasgiven opportunity to sooooo many athletes its actually crazy u think they spoil anything ehen they are bringing new people into every sport they mess with. Redbull has done more for action sports then possibly any other company . Supporting redbull is supporting athletes. If ur against what they do then you are against athletes getting paid lol

Put some respect on their name they have changed sports for the better. And many things that arent sportd. World records. They fund all these guys wildest childhood dreams. They are one of the greatest companies out there

Grammar lost in all the excitement . . .

One took the other guy Glory. I'll be pisst

History? Stupid publicity stunt history. Who cares that you can switch planes with 50% success rate?

There’s making history and then there’s making meaningless history. This stunt was the latter. You can jump out of one airplane and into another. Umm, ok cool. I guess we needed to know if it was possible, just in case we were given a special mission or something like that. And since it’s RedBull, they did this to further humanity, because that’s what accomplishing this important stunt will do. Don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t do something without money, free time, and a wild imagination! You too can accomplish something historic.

Darwinism isn’t exactly the history ya wanna be part of. Just saying…

stupidity not balls people not weighing up the dangers. i place these men in the same league as Stockton Rush . strange how we see nothing of what should have been shown its been edited maybe it looked far worse as we see nothing of the other skydiver attempt let alone the other 1 almost becoming mincemeat

Is the phrase 'great balls of steel' actually mean 'stupid'?

​@@topbanana4013It's not strange at all. The video starts by saying that the full footage is on Hulu -- this is just a trailer to get you interested in paying for the full version.

Wilful non compliance of the regulations. Pilots should always be bound by rules & regulations in the interest of public safety. I find it incomprehensible how people would consciously disregard regulators for the sake of video likes & channel subscriptions. Especially as mentioned above that the FAA has continually denied the waiver to do this stunt. My advice to aspiring pilots would be to stick to videos that help you get & most importantly retain your license. No stunt will ever be worth losing your license over. We already have so many possible stumbling blocks that we hurdle to continually practice the privileges of our license.

Burn em

I don’t understand what the big deal is just so long as they were doing this over an unpopulated area, such as but not limited to the middle of the desert. I mean, at the end of the day, it is the life of the two pilots and the two airplanes that they are risking. As long as it is that and only those 4 things being at risk then “no harm no fowl”, as far as I’m concerned.

They won't do shit. These guys are famous and probably made 3/4 million each so far and counting. They might have to pay a 10 thousand dollar fine on a payment plan. If even that.

@@TempoDrift1480 Hmmm...sure hope ur wrong Tempo. But, be of good cheer. If there is an action, it will involve their license. I've never heard of a fine option for a pilot violation.

I kinda think that's like saying "The Titanic has a bit of water damage"

wait, what? they didn't FAA approval? for some reason I thought they did. Do you have a link that says they didn't get approval?

I call BS. Red Bull has entire legal departments especially to keep themselves out of trouble. They’ve been conducting aerial stunts for years all over the world. They would be idiots not to coordinate with the FAA on this single stunt.

@@coreymarshall462 I believe they mentioned that in this video. If not, there are a few others out there about this that addressed the fact that they didn’t have FAA approval to perform this. So even if they successfully accomplished what they set out to do, I think they’d still be under investigation simply cause of the nature of what they were trying to do

It’s okay, the planes had the Red Bull logo on them. So long as you’re reminded of an energy drink, the FAA won’t do anything in retaliation.

@@VictoryAviation yes they have. I’ve seen many of their stunts and they’re awesome to watch. However the FAA denied a request from red bull for an exemption from FAA regulations therefore this particular maneuver wasn’t approved. Hence the investigation

Didn't look flat to me, just inverted. It's about the same amount of pitch down you see in a regular spin but inverted.

🟡 Two extremely lousy pilots. Period. Okay, the messed it up because they did it for the clicks and a couple of thousand bucks. And that's the reason why they are lousy pilots. They are totally unprofessional. The two hot shots are proud enough to show us how stupid the are (sorry, guys) : BFD. And why the .... would you do something like that, jumping out of a perfectly working airplane? Are you bored oder just ... slow? IMHO you guys are lousy "pilots", indeed. Oh, and the lousy excuses at the end of the clip... priceless.... jeezzzzz. Amateurs. Greets from the left seat, sunshines. I'm not jumping, because I can.

Did the chute automatically deploy at a certain altitude?

1:13 you can hear one of them say "Mixture out" - that should have turned the engine off - something went wrong there as well.

The spinning propeller…. Exactly what i was thinking.

Not if they reproduce.

Red Bull: "The FAA can suck on my giant red balls"

I hope.

Hahaha. Sure. Here's some money. Now shut up. That's how it works.

Who got hurt, nobody. I enjoyed the video.

Yes father..

it's obvious that they tried this in a special zone.

Fuck the law

Shame he missed it.

1. They asked the FAA. Permission denied. 2. Aircraft parachute systems have been successfully deployed in aircraft for nearly a century.

Guess you have never heard of the cirrus aircraft.

@@bobgrice5258 nope. Please tell me more about this Cirrus plane.

you can buy planes with chutes nothing new

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Why would they lose their skydive certs?

@@pnwadventurist the USPA (United States parachute association) falls under FAA regulation

@modest mouse colored person oh I won’t be missed Einstein . I work for a FSDO here in the east. ( that’s the FAA in case you didn’t know) You don’t abandon an airworthy airplane in flight for no reason …. Especially after you were denied a request to pull such a stunt . They were told they could do it but a pilot had to remain in both aircraft the entire time . They would have achieved the same daring effect without jeopardizing the airplanes and people and property on the ground . If they want to kill them self’s , nobody really cares . They just can’t jeopardize the public and their safety . And in case you didn’t know this either …. The first letter in FAA stands for Federal . That’s Federal law dude , those guy are pretty much done !!!

This really was not wreckless at all.... They had a parachutte and were in a desert🤣 The worst that could happen was their plane being destroyed.

@@Milo19970 sounds like a good defense ….. but ain’t gonna work .

@@Milo19970 the worst thing that could have happened is people getting killed.

So does that mean race car drivers should not have a driver's license?

Oh no kidding on the disapproval letters?! Have a link? If that’s the case, Red Bull made an extremely stupid choice to move forward with the stunt. They could have easily conducted it in a different country that didn’t have as strict regulations and accomplished the same results without legal issues.

Does UKposts not allow posts to contain links? I’ve tried to post it several times and the post keeps getting deleted.

@@VictoryAviation that's what I was thinking, I bet they could've paid Mexico to let them do it and face zero legal repercussions in the end.

Muh safety

If nobody ever pushed boundaries, would we even have airplanes? Men landing on the moon? We should all just hide in our caves and never take risks.

​@@stefanf922 people complaining about muh safety are probably the ones who watch g0,re content on the internet. They don't care about safety, they just wanna complain

Hahahahaha

Dude, it's over lol

Damn right! Too many whiny pilots kissing FAA ass in this comment section.

😂

They knew the risks more than you ever will, you shouldn't be calling anyone 'stupid'.

They'll fly again with masks on

Nope, they are reckless outlaws who should never fly again, they have total disrespect towards any aviation safety rule. They are a disgrace for the aviation community.

This 182 was out of control the minute he left. It could have flown into anything. If I were FAA these guys would never touch an airplane’s controls. We have to do the opposite of what Red Bull expects with these continuing Aviation stunts. They’re going to get people killed.

Funny how the fat guy actually completed the task at hand

Luke ‘s dozen donuts was put in the other plane before hand…effort was made by Luke to get there!

I agree with you on this. I guess Red Bull decided the PR was worth it. Sad.

meh FAA is lowesly anyways they let boeing verify thier own planes for god sake.

@@thomasgreen628 sad for the pilots involved because unfortunately they must suffer the consequences and the company that instigated and paid for it will get the publicity they wanted and more without consequences.

@@ecomandurban7183 The pilots themselves thought up and developed this stunt, they even applied themselves for the FAA exemption, nothing sad about it they will get what they deserve.

nah, this endangered people on the ground, destroyed a perfectly good plane, put these idiots at serious risk, they should be punished.

@@greeneggsandsam2014 No one on the ground was in danger. The team had calculated where the plane would land in the event of failure. The event was well publicized as well. No one was in this zone who was not aware that the event was taking place. As far as destroying a plane, so what. It was their plane. All that said, they will likely be disciplined in some manner by the FAA. But it will not be severe.

This was nothing but a stunt. It's not Kitty Hawk or a moon landing. Nor are they inventors or explorers. 😂

@@simonbagel what if the plane had entered inverted flight instead of a flat spin? It's obvious the chute system took a while to deploy, if the plane had flown a few miles outside their "calculated" zone and the chute didn't work, what then? What about other traffic in the area? If the FAA had approved the stunt (if), then they could have made a TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) to warn others who didn't hear the "publicity" about it beforehand

@@im4run It's not with regards to the immediate societal impact, of course. But even a "stunt", as you say, like this advances human limits. I'm all for it. These guys are heroes and I admire them both.

They diddnt even get permission for this, I imagine they will be in trouble

@@grandsoleil56 They will lose their license's, probably for good. As they should.

It's amazing what they're trying to do to get attention, wow just wow!

It's not their money, why would they care ?

Nothing innovative or remarkable other than bravery and stupidity. These guys are jackasses

Criminal on what basis ? They didn't listen to fun-killer big gov ?

Bingo.

Red Bull gets rich creating the culture of risking lives and we poor horses 🐴 working for 10 € hr

At 1:31, I was beginning to wonder....

Only the boundaries of stupid were pushed.

Me: *CLAPS* Exactly!!! Waste of a good airplane

This is disgusting! This momentum of people because I refuse to call them pilots. Jumping out of un manned uncontrolled aircraft has to stop. If we neglect to tell the fas something on our exam it’s considered lying and that is a federal offense. I can’t imagine defiance being any different. Sadly this will come down to the pilots say redbull said it was ok. Redbull says they told pilots not to do it. Faa will say it’s on the PIC. Because it is.

@@gtm624 pretty sure RedBull will be distancing themselves from this one as best they can. These "pilots" blatantly disregarded FAA mandated event denials which I'd think RedBull as a huge international corporation wouldn't ignore. On the other hand tho if RedBull pressured these "pilots" into doing this stunt after their event wasn't approved, I'm sure attorneys at RedBull are scrambling to deflect future lawsuits. If that's case, this won't bode well for RedBull and or whoever signed off on this stunt. It'll be interesting to see how deep RedBull was into this when this stunt was performed.

@@gtm624 exactly, it’s always on the PIC.

@@alfredwilson3915 yup. With a big tit for tat. I can’t see how these “pilots” (for lack of better term) would perform a stunt like that without documents from the faa. No matter what it falls on them. They are pic. No one as far as I know (outside the cockpit that is) can take responsibility for my plane or the safe operation of said plane. Faa isn’t going to want to hear Red Bull said it was ok. Maybe these two were duped or pressured into doing this. Which I wouldn’t be surprised as this type of stuff happens daily in the 135 world. No matter what. These are not the type of ideas we need to continue to put into the publics mind.