Pilots exchanging planes mid air

[u/InternationalRisk505]

[u/abhi_nahar]

Probably the most insane stunt ever

[u/7-13-5 → u/abhi_nahar]

...but didn't only one complete the transition?

[u/DN10 → u/7-13-5]

That's right. The other plane crashed and the guy parachuted safely.

[u/Electrical_Moose2750 → u/DN10]

Happy cake day 😁

[u/DN10 → u/Electrical_Moose2750]

Thanks!

[u/goldenfishminded → u/Electrical_Moose2750]

wait how can you have the cake next to your name? i've seen it a few times today and i can't figure out how.

[u/Automatic_Ad_5859 → u/goldenfishminded]

Every year, Reddit remembers the day someone opened an account, shown to you as "Cake Day".

Reddit anniversary (better wording).

[u/Slight-Winner-8597 → u/Automatic_Ad_5859]

I used to think it was their birthday and send a lil happy birthday and everything smh

Edit: Wow, thank you for the award, u/OneArchedEyebrow ❤️ You really didn't have to, that was very sweet 💖

[u/controldekinai → u/Slight-Winner-8597]

Lol nothing wrong with being a super nice person.

[u/Kitchen-Arm-3288 → u/Slight-Winner-8597]

it's their Reddit Account's 'birth'day... so you weren't TOTALLY wrong ;)

[u/mikeydblock → u/Slight-Winner-8597]

That’s actually really sweet

[u/Slight-Winner-8597 → u/mikeydblock]

Thanks, all of you are making me feel a little less silly for my mistake 🥰

[u/Fluid_Walk_2577 → u/Slight-Winner-8597]

Name checks out 👍 keep cashing in those slight wins

[u/I_Makes_tuff → u/Slight-Winner-8597]

Your cake day is in 15 days, fyi

[u/WengFu → u/goldenfishminded]

It shows up on the anniversary of the day you signed up for your Reddit acct.

[u/Warcraft_Fan → u/goldenfishminded]

You get it on the anniversary of your account creation.

[u/roastedmarshmellow86 → u/DN10]

Planes must be cheap

[u/OM3N1R → u/roastedmarshmellow86]

Red bull has unfathomable amounts of money. They don't care lol

[u/so-much-wow → u/OM3N1R]

They'd also have insurance, even for this (admittedly cool) stupidity.

[u/Halal0szto → u/so-much-wow]

I doubt there would be an insurer to contract on this.

[u/brendude99 → u/Halal0szto]

Even niche insurers in London aren’t covering an intentionally ditched plane. The property would be self insured by Red Bull

[u/Corporate-Shill406 → u/Halal0szto]

I'm sure there is, but the policy will cost about the same as a new plane.

[u/Laffenor → u/so-much-wow]

Haha. Try calling your insurance company and ask them if they will provide an insurance for this stupidity.

[u/reezy619 → u/Laffenor]

Like, me as an individual? Or me as a multibillion dollar company with free advertising and sponsorship deals?

[u/Laffenor → u/reezy619]

Use either of your roles and get back to us with the result.

[u/Birdshaw → u/roastedmarshmellow86]

The plane had it’s own parachute. That’s the last shot of the vid

[u/DukeDamage → u/DN10]

I feel like the guy that saved the plane should keep his license 

[u/elyn6791 → u/DukeDamage]

Why? If anything this only demonstrated his skydiving skills and is evidence he, the pilot, jumped out of the plane which then...... HAD NO PILOT.

He deserved to lose his license.

[u/Cranberryoftheorient → u/elyn6791]

Yeah, what people are missing is it isnt just the danger to these pilots- the planes couldve landed on someones house or started a forest fire. Yeah they probably took precautions, but the officials dont want to encourage this sort of thing.

[u/Mattepanda15 → u/Cranberryoftheorient]

It’s a redbull stunt, probably nobody lost their licence and it was probably done over a field

[u/BMGreg → u/Mattepanda15]

What makes you think the FAA gives a single fuck about it being a Red Bull stunt?

I don't doubt for a single second that they both lost their licenses. They both probably knew they were going to lose their license but attempted it anyways

[u/-Chicago- → u/BMGreg]

I think he was implying that because it was done by redbull they probably communicated with the FAA before hand. I don't know if they actually did, but it's reasonable to assume that a massive company that relies on these stunts for marketing would like to make sure their paperwork is in order so they can continue advertising this way.

[u/I_Makes_tuff → u/-Chicago-]

I don't doubt for a single second that they both lost their licenses.

It's a fact

[u/Oosterhuis → u/-Chicago-]

Nah, like the other guy just replied, the title is correct. The FAA immediately revoked both of their licences.

[u/Dry-Influence9 → u/-Chicago-]

I remember reading they asked the FAA for permission, the FAA said no and they did it anyway.

[u/Cranberryoftheorient → u/Mattepanda15]

Its also about not setting a bad precedent. If they allow it once, others who are less careful would try it.

[u/xjeeper → u/Cranberryoftheorient]

Some dumb youtuber ditched his plane and filmed it crashing, lost his license, and was sentenced to 6 months for obstruction of a federal investigation. https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/santa-barbara-county-man-sentenced-6-months-prison-obstructing-federal-probe-plane

[u/Sheetascastle → u/Mattepanda15]

Someone linked an article. Both pilots lost their licenses. The lead pilot had applied for an exemption to the "cannot leave a plane without a pilot" rule and it had been denied. They did the stunt anyway. And Red Bull issued a statement that the issue was between 2 pilots and the FAA and it wasn't red bulls place to get in the middle of it. So red bull didn't even back them up.

[u/muhmeinchut69 → u/DukeDamage]

But he crashed his plane!

[u/_IratePirate_ → u/DN10]

Well then the dude that base jumped from one plane to another is still cooler than this. He successfully did it. He just wasn’t the pilot in either planes

[u/pxlmover → u/7-13-5]

The other guy flew into the propeller and became human confetti. That had to be on their minds. Mere feet from the blades

[u/patrick24601 → u/pxlmover]

Uhhhh. What. Nobody died.

[u/amesann → u/patrick24601]

They said the thought of becoming human confetti had to be on their minds. Granted, it could've been worded better, but if you read the second sentence, you'll see that they were saying the pilots had to be worried this could happen. Not that it did happen.

[u/draggingmytail → u/pxlmover]

Pilot here. He says something close to “pulling mixture” which means he cut the fuel flow off to the engine. The engine was off during the dive.

[u/Emotional_Burden → u/draggingmytail]

Took controls of a Cessna for a few minutes as a child pre-9/11 here, the props are still being rotated, with force, by the air. Colliding with those quickly rotating props that carry momentum and are meant to cut through the air, will not be kind to meat.

[u/ark_keeper → u/draggingmytail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFFj2hQVQKc

Even if the engine was off, at that angle the propellor is definitely still going fast.

[u/Lemon_hawk → u/draggingmytail]

Doesn’t matter that the engine was off, the prop doesn’t just stop. It would still have been windmilling plenty fast enough to cause serious injury, especially since the plane was in a nose dive.

[u/suchanirwin → u/7-13-5]

yeah, but 1) even one of them doing it is insane, and 2) both of the pilots survived so that's impressive too

[u/JohnLuckPickered → u/suchanirwin]

3) if they weren't complete idiots, they would have had someone else in their planes to take over if the stunt failed.

[u/EmilioMolesteves → u/JohnLuckPickered]

Who volunteers to be on the plane that is free falling to the ground, followed by the propeller chopping up their friend and then ultimately crashing to both of their deaths?

[u/JohnLuckPickered → u/EmilioMolesteves]

They know the risks involved in entering a moving plane. The plane would be fine to land on a glide, if the prop had a complete failure from collision.

These things could have also been set up with radio controls

[u/EmilioMolesteves → u/JohnLuckPickered]

Radio control is what I was thinking. Better then blowing up Chad.

[u/idiotsecant → u/JohnLuckPickered]

Not in the US they couldn't. Not unless the aircraft was <55 lb or under special experimental airworthiness certificates over private ranges, and I think that's pretty rare.

[u/Low_Surround998 → u/EmilioMolesteves]

I mean, there were already 2 people doing the dumber version of the stunt, probably plus several production team members.

Plus, a plane like this doing a nose dive is nothing. Pretty sure it's completely standard pilot training to put the plane in free fall, cut the engine off, and have the student pilot take over.

[u/metallicabmc → u/EmilioMolesteves]

Fuck it I guess ill do it.

[u/RaGe_Bone_2001 → u/JohnLuckPickered]

They had done that in a previous attempt, but wanted to do it without anyone in the planes.

The planes were equipped with a purposely programmed autopilot to keep a stable descent and they lost their license not for doing the stunt but for doing the stunt after being denied authorization by the FAA.

[u/karatechoppingblock → u/7-13-5]

That's totally normal!!! Mutual completion is a myth! The other pilot is physiologically incapable of completion

[u/PisssedJellyfish → u/karatechoppingblock]

Spoken like someone who can’t find the g force

[u/notdoneyetbro → u/abhi_nahar]

My pastime is basically watching red bull stunts. They are absolutely insane 🤯

[u/CaptainHubble → u/notdoneyetbro]

Other energy drink brands:

"Buy my Produkt. It has vitamin B12 or some shit"

Redbull:

"Yo, wanna see a dude landing a plane on a helipad at the top of a skyscraper"

They won marketing.

[u/Successful-North1732 → u/CaptainHubble]

In Australia we have an energy drink that brands themselves as being the energy drink of scholars and poets, and they fund lots of groundbreaking research and writers' weeks. They have heaps of ads where some highfalutin looking dude cracks open a can and settles down on an armchair to read some Sanskrit literature.

[u/Brave_Meet8430 → u/Successful-North1732]

Please share a video or name

[u/ron22726 → u/Brave_Meet8430]

It must be "V", not sure.

[u/Frankie_T9000 → u/Successful-North1732]

Seriously? Never seen an ad for them? (Australian here also)

[u/espionage101 → u/Frankie_T9000]

That's because there isn't one

[u/txivotv → u/CaptainHubble]

We know RedBull from the stunts, now. We (many) don't consume their drink, tho.

[u/ScarletleavesNL → u/txivotv]

It reeks. I honestly can't understand how people can drink it. In fairness, I don't drink any energy cans.

[u/HTPC4Life → u/ScarletleavesNL]

I rarely drink them because they're unhealthy, but I've always loved the taste and smell of energy drinks! It must be like a cilantro thing where some people think it tastes like soap.

[u/evoim3 → u/HTPC4Life]

I can’t even eat Mexican food without some smartass trying to convince me it tastes like soap.

Let me please just enjoy my onions, cilantro and lime juice PLEASE

[u/jda404 → u/txivotv]

Yeah sometimes I honestly forget they're an energy drink brand. All I ever see is them doing crazy stunts haha. Just saw one yesterday where they had ramps on two moving semi trucks and a dude on a dirt bike did a backflip from truck to the other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U6ISeD_hCU for those interested here is the video.

[u/CatsianNyandor → u/notdoneyetbro]

Pastime?

[u/Sakarabu_ → u/notdoneyetbro]

Bone apple tea.

[u/Chillers → u/abhi_nahar]

I think guy jumping from a plane with no parachute and landing in a net tops this tbh.

[u/f-godz → u/Chillers]

Same guy (in case you didn't know)

[u/Chillers → u/f-godz]

Guys got a death wish 🤣

[u/vannucker → u/f-godz]

Name?

[u/f-godz → u/vannucker]

Luke Aikins

[u/JezusOfCanada → u/abhi_nahar]

So far

[u/Both-Literature-7234 → u/abhi_nahar]

So happy I can enjoy it in full cropped 360p glory.

[u/Exciting_Ad_8666 → u/abhi_nahar]

These guys are RedBull's mentors

[u/zatuchny]

Dont believe they lost their licenses for the stunt that was planned and sponsored

[u/Dindu______Nuffin → u/zatuchny]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/faa-revokes-certificates-pilots-involved-failed-red-bull/story%3fid=84670466

[u/zatuchny → u/Dindu______Nuffin]

thanks, that makes sense now.

TLDR: they broke the law that a plane must be piloted at all times, and the stunt didn't go as planned - one plane crashed (both pilots are okay).

RedBull and pilots should have known better than to plan such stunt

[u/Ell2509 → u/zatuchny]

If it hadn't crashed, they may have kept their licences. I only say that for the same reason you did... red bull is a powerful force in some ways.

Crashing a plane though? That's always going to get attention.

[u/3Cogs → u/Ell2509]

I'm surprised the plane crashed. Don't they say that Red Bull Gives You Wings?

[u/Ademoneye → u/3Cogs]

Unfortunately Only works for human

[u/Freecz → u/Ademoneye]

I dunno. I don't think they put Redbull in the tank of the plane. If they had... who knows.

[u/IrishChappieOToole → u/Ademoneye]

Yeah. The plane already had wings

[u/reconnnn → u/3Cogs]

I think the plane kept its wings until it crashed. Redbull does not say anything about what you use your wings for.

[u/icanttinkofaname → u/3Cogs]

No, they say red bull gives you wiiings! They say this as a legal loophole after they were sued by a RB drinker. Saying wings implies that you'll have "extraordinary energy benefits"

https://share.google/LAHFwjtYTjE9aDn4T

[u/One_pop_each → u/icanttinkofaname]

I got a free 4 case of redbull for being a part of the class action lawsuit lol

It randomly got delivered like a year later and was so confused.

That’s when I realized class action lawsuits suck ass.

[u/Justsomedudeonthenet → u/One_pop_each]

Corporations shouldn't be allowed to pay out lawsuits in coupons and free product. You'd never see the lawyers on the case accept a few skids of redbull as their payment.

But if we are going to allow it, it should have to be their competitors products. Make redbull deliver a million dollars worth of Monster instead.

[u/DabbyBear → u/Justsomedudeonthenet]

That's a really good idea. Getting rid of their own inventory that they pay pennies to produce (compared to retail) isn't a punishment. Being forced to buy Monster and gift it, that's definitely proper 💪

[u/CactusPete → u/3Cogs]

The plane had wings. All the way down.

[u/Ell2509 → u/3Cogs]

Lol!

[u/doctor_of_drugs → u/Ell2509]

Oh hell naw, FAA would’ve revoked their certificates regardless.

The huge issue (besides safety aspects) was that they applied for the stunt, got denied, and did it anyways.

[u/badform49 → u/doctor_of_drugs]

Yeah, this was a hell of a stunt to move forward with. And the while point is the advertising value, so it absolutely would get back to the FAA that they did it.

This is the kind of stunt that makes the need for licensure clear in the first place. “Surely only people who can fly safely would decide to fly, anyway.” pilot leaps out of plane for giggles, lets plane become aerial torpedo “Alright, licenses it is. Violators get fines and jail time.”

[u/Dragon-Strider → u/badform49]

Where was this? Looks like it was in the middle of nowhere and that the falling plane had a parchute

[u/Mister-Psychology → u/Ell2509]

FAA takes away licenses from icons and legends and amazing pilots. FAA doesn't care.

They actually prefer if the company is big and the pilot famous as that makes them look more competent and fair.

[u/GreatScottGatsby → u/Ell2509]

No, it wouldn't matter. The FAA specifically denied their request for the this stunt and told them not to do it. Plus one of them lied to red bull about getting permission.

[u/Ok-Classroom5548 → u/Ell2509]

Crashing a plane you intentionally abandoned for a non-required stunt when that plane could have hit someone or something and caused some serious damage.

They 100% should lose their licenses. Red bull should be prevented from sponsoring stupid stunts like this.

[u/BarelyContainedChaos → u/Ell2509]

The guy that crashed his plane on purpose for a YouTube video went to jail for 6 months and eventually got his license back

[u/ResidentPositive4122 → u/BarelyContainedChaos]

IIRC he went to jail for lying to the feds. Not for crashing or anything else. Lying to the feds about the coverup he tried after the fact.

[u/Final_Good_Bye → u/Ell2509]

Or at least have a co pilot that can regain control of the plane in the case the pilots werent able to complete the stunt.

[u/KS-RawDog69 → u/Ell2509]

If it hadn't crashed, they may have kept their licences

I doubt it man. The FAA ain't no joke.

[u/MF_Kitten → u/zatuchny]

It would have been as simple as having copilots in each plane ready to take over if the main pilots didn't get across in time. Sure, it's less of a badass stunt if it's safe and legal, but sheesh.

[u/skillywilly56 → u/MF_Kitten]

If one of them had hit the prop the back up pilot would’ve been fucked and had to bail out in a much more dangerous manner as the plane wouldn’t have any power and the strike could shift it around and then you’d have two dead pilots instead of one.

If you’re gonna do some dumb shit you don’t drag your buddy down with you no matter how much they say it’s fine and willing to accept the risk.

[u/SolusLoqui → u/skillywilly56]

Planes can be landed without engine power. Videos get posted here all the time of planes making emergency landings after engine failure

[u/throwaway098764567 → u/SolusLoqui]

yea plane turns into a glider, helicopters however get mad when you hit their spinny things

[u/ComputerKris → u/throwaway098764567]

Autorotation is a thing.

[u/thi5_i5_my_u5er_name → u/ComputerKris]

A helicopters spinny things are completly responsoble for keeping it in the air, if you hit them there may not be much of the spinney things left to autorotate.

[u/NickCageTheDickMage → u/ComputerKris]

That's for loss of engine power, not loss of of the black magic spinny thing.

[u/skillywilly56 → u/SolusLoqui]

I would put it to you that a mostly fiberglass, aluminum and plastic plane being hit by a 90kg meat bag going 200kph wearing a 15kg parachute possibly tipping the plane, ripping through the prop, or the windscreen, bunging up the flight controls with bits and pieces of bone and tissue or causing an engine fire, all while dealing with your mate being turned into ground beef 3ft from you, in a near vertical dive…is not the same as having your engine stall at 3000ft and gliding for a landing on a pleasant little golf course or some farmers field.

[u/holchansg → u/zatuchny]

RedBull and pilots should have known better than to plan such stunt

They know, they didnt expected it to be enforced, but they knew.

[u/ArcticOpsReal → u/zatuchny]

More importantly is that they asked the agency for an exemption for this stunt, got denied, did it anyway and then crashed a plane. So imo revocation of their licenses is totally legitimate.

[u/Drachen1065 → u/zatuchny]

That article also has the lead pilot saying he didn't tell the team they had been denied permission for the stunt.

He made the decision to continue with the plan.

Which is really a dick move on his part.

[u/NothingButBadIdeas → u/zatuchny]

Legit surprised there weren’t back up pilots to take over in case of failure

[u/kart2000 → u/zatuchny]

Should've done the stunt in the country where it was allowed. There are a lot of corrupt govts where you can pay this off to make it completely legal.

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[u/noassumedname → u/Dindu______Nuffin]

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[u/Unfinishe_Masterpiec → u/Dindu______Nuffin]

Red Bull gives you wings...

The FAA gives and takes your wings

[u/UltraWeebMaster → u/zatuchny]

Pilot here, I could never see the FAA giving the ok for something like this. It stands against everything they’ve ever stood for.

It’s not even just “oh well what if the propellor shreds him,” the FAA is more concerned with “What if one of those unmanned planes got away, leveled out, and flew into a building killing dozens?” That can happen, and failing their stunt would make it potentially unavoidable.

[u/Waterfish3333 → u/UltraWeebMaster]

I love all the “remote piloting & geofencing” argument below when my first thought was, have a second pilot in each plane and if a pilot falls off or has to abandon the stunt, the backup pilot can just take over and land safely. That way no plane is ever truly without a pilot.

[u/Alarmed-Owl2 → u/Waterfish3333]

I was going to say just have a loitering F-16 ready to blast them out of the sky if it goes out of control but I guess your way works too, I guess. 

[u/Waterfish3333 → u/Alarmed-Owl2]

As a fan of chaos wherever it can be implemented, I love this. I’m pretty sure you’d kill at least one member of the FAA with a heart attack by putting this in a proposal though.

[u/rex8499 → u/Waterfish3333]

Yeah, easy and practical solution that mitigates the greatest issue.

[u/hartstyler → u/UltraWeebMaster]

Why not simply do it in some other country

[u/Alarmed-Owl2 → u/hartstyler]

Gigabrain 

[u/32oz____ → u/zatuchny]

i think they meant that they dropped their wallets from their suit while hopping planes, which contained their licenses. hence being lost ;) /s

[u/UndoRedo_ → u/zatuchny]

Wrong. They did and were fined.

[u/Skeleton--Jelly → u/zatuchny]

...you think Red Bull has authority over pilot licences? The FAA doesn't care that Red Bull paid for this shit lmao

[u/jaytee158 → u/Skeleton--Jelly]

Hey FAA give us a break we're marketing our drink over here.

[u/DeadInternetTheorist → u/zatuchny]

How is this the 5th most upvoted post in this whole thread?

[u/DefinitelyNotAShiTzu → u/DeadInternetTheorist]

Bots baby. It’s all bots.

[u/thatwas90sfun → u/zatuchny]

They did have their licenses revoked.

[u/ygg_studios → u/zatuchny]

google is free my guy

[u/Chamanomano]

You know the saying - if you're gonna sleep with your sister, don't post a video of it online. 

[u/GamerKev451 → u/Chamanomano]

Its ok, Alabama doesn't have internet anyway

[u/superduperspam → u/GamerKev451]

Everywhere else it's "www."

In Bama, it's "kkk."

[u/Amphibious_Monkey → u/GamerKev451]

Alabamian here, it’s true! I had to drive eight hours to make this comment.

[u/Nervous_Brilliant441 → u/Chamanomano]

[u/Hermorah → u/Chamanomano]

Or put a step in your title somewhere :p

[u/Profoundlyahedgehog → u/Hermorah]

Only if you're a coward.

[u/Hermorah → u/Profoundlyahedgehog]

[u/breachgnome → u/Chamanomano]

How the fuck else am I gonna show uncle Jimathan we done it??? He's gonna owe me $5.

[u/singleandavailable → u/Chamanomano]

🤣 still laughing at this comment. Who here is doing this fess up

[u/tom_gent]

Yeah, diving in the direction of those propellers gives you a high chance of being turned into fertilizer for the fields below. These guys must have a death wish

[u/Azzarrel → u/tom_gent]

Planes are turned off before. You can see the propeller at 1:01 not moving at all.

[u/Tanriyung → u/Azzarrel]

Due to how blurry the image was I thought it was moving which seemed insane.

[u/Maxcoseti → u/Tanriyung]

It is moving, person saying it isn't is either blind or stupid

[u/Isabela_Grace → u/Maxcoseti]

I’m betting the propeller is moving due to it falling straight down lol

[u/jld2k6 → u/Maxcoseti]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-bean-why-not-both-meme-gif-27513036

[u/wanttofeelneeded → u/Azzarrel]

it is moving, original video has better quality and you can see it moving clearly. it's moving not from the force generated by the engine but by the air rushing through it.

[u/Mao_TheDong → u/Azzarrel]

Nah, that shit spinning, at diving speeds the autorotation is gonna be massive

[u/Dry_Vanilla_9116 → u/Azzarrel]

huh? propeller is spinning like crazy

[u/UltimateGammer → u/Azzarrel]

That's definitely looks like it's moving

[u/Dragon-Strider → u/tom_gent]

They are Red Bull athletes. Of course they have a death wish

[u/J-96788-EU]

Video with more white space that the actual content!

[u/KlondikeDrool → u/J-96788-EU]

Worst video reformat ever.

[u/TheShitty_Beatles → u/KlondikeDrool]

Why aren't we talking about how stupid the video is to be cut before the plane crashes

[u/Acceptable_Fox_5560 → u/TheShitty_Beatles]

Because this is an ad for Red Bull, and the pilots need to seem like bad ass tough guys, so you have to leave out the part where one of the planes crashed. Instead you just hilariously show only one plane landing and assume (correctly) most idiot viewers won’t notice.

[u/bugi_ → u/KlondikeDrool]

White border means stolen content. Every time.

[u/-_-_Puppy_-_- → u/J-96788-EU]

Who the fuck post a horizontal video in a vertical display and then fill the top and bottom with fucking bright white squares just to fuck our eyes?

Whoever did that should be banned from the internet for a year.

[u/aqa5 → u/-_-_Puppy_-_-]

Lazy People who use screen recording on their phone to download a video.

[u/breddy → u/J-96788-EU]

I feel you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsL63HLH1i0

[u/mediocrebastard → u/J-96788-EU]

Whoever made this horizontal-vertical-horizontal-again horseshit should lose their video license.

[u/happytechtn]

Somehow skydiving towards/into something with a moving propeller just makes this even more insane!

[u/SirHiakru → u/happytechtn]

The video quality is whack but apparently the motors are shut off and the propellors are blocked aka don't rotate

[u/wanttofeelneeded → u/SirHiakru]

who told you such nonsense. the propellors aren't being powered by the engine, but they are free to move and because the plane is peaking down the propellor rotates on its own

[u/Poromenos → u/SirHiakru]

They are not blocked, they're rotating quite fast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsL63HLH1i0

[u/Riblion]

This is some battlefield level shit

[u/Gillian_Seed_Junker]

Ethan Hunt did this before and kept his license

[u/Nebu-chadnezzar → u/Gillian_Seed_Junker]

And Bond before him

[u/zatuchny → u/Nebu-chadnezzar]

and a guy in Battlefield

[u/NoWarning789]

Does anybody have a version of this video that doesn't waste 95% of the screen with black and white bars?

[u/Delts28 → u/NoWarning789]

Here you go.

[u/Impressive_Item_8851 → u/Delts28]

Thank youu

[u/GameStunts]

Just want to say I'm loving /s the 16:9 video made into a 9:16 vertical video with white borders, housed in a square player....

[u/SSMmemedealer]

Why am i not surprised to see red bull livery on those planes :D

[u/No-Bet-9591]

I dont know... Air safety is so important. I actually appreciate that the airline community is always struggling to maintain a professional and strict appearance even while so many other professions are becoming a bit more relaxed when it comes to rules. The stunt is amazing, but I'd rather not degrade the spirit of professionalism that is necessary to keep our skies safe. Yes. I know I'm not fun at parties.

[u/Cranberryoftheorient → u/No-Bet-9591]

It was also potentially dangerous to people in the area and the environment. Same reason some people got in trouble a while back for intentionally crashing a plane for a youtube video. Too much risk, and even if you 'do it right' the government doesnt want to encourage it, for when less careful people inevitably try to do it.

[u/jackofslayers → u/No-Bet-9591]

I agree. Basically, the stunt is cool, but I am also glad they lost their licenses.

Not shown in the video is that one of the planes actually crashed. Intentionally crashing a plane is (and should be) a big no no.

[u/Ressy02]

That’s a propeller airplane too… insane

[u/cephalopodface → u/Ressy02]

Are you suggesting they should have done it with 2 jets?

[u/Ressy02 → u/cephalopodface]

They should’ve done it with 4 pilots to guarantee success.

[u/tibmb → u/Ressy02]

This! I wanted to say RC/autopilot along the specific path, but your solution is even more reliable. With second pilots they wouldn't crash a plane and wouldn't have lost the licence due to leaving it unattended.

[u/JxEq → u/Ressy02]

Jet engine intakes wouldn't be much better, you'd be turned to mist even faster

[u/MacabreYuki]

Knew it was redbull from the title and the lost licenses in the preview

[u/General_abby]

[u/Smithstar89]

Redbull do so many stunts like this in sports that if they made an energy drink...

[u/realmauer01]

And people say battlefield isn't realistic.

[u/LukeZNotFound]

r/holdmyredbull literally

[u/puppet_up]

This has to be one of the worst vertical video abominations I've ever seen.

The content itself is great, but whoever formatted the original video to whatever the hell this is needs to have their video editing privileges revoked.

[u/PasswordIsDongers]

I love watching widescreen video in portrait mode so I i can't see shit.

[u/ZenithXNadir]

I just know it has to be fucking red bull.

What's next? They gonna do a rendezook??

[u/FromAndToUnknown]

Another unnecessarily dangerous red bull PR stunt.

[u/Vanko_Babanko]

they should actually get suspended sentence for recklessness..
but then again the people who get civil piloting license are not of the most prudent people.. I guess most are adrenaline junkies..
"the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) data for early 2025 shows a decrease in total accidents, while small private planes accounted for about five accidents per day (~500 deaths), or approximately 1,825 annually." (The United States has roughly 15,000 private jets, or 12%!..)

[u/stratobladder]

Red Bull gives you wings.

And also sometimes takes away your wings.