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Let's have a discussion of the Luke Aikins stunt, maybe even speculating on possible penalties Wendy P.

Reuters: New York judge holds Trump in contempt for failing to comply with subpoena A New York judge on Monday held former President Donald Trump in contempt of court for not producing documents subpoenaed in the state attorney general's civil probe of his business practices, and ordered Trump to be fined $10,000 per day until he complies. Should make him sit in a cell until he complies.

Every single lawsuit filed by or against Trump has had A winner. It's just that most of them aren't Trump.

Video attached, looks like a delayed parachute deloyment: - time interval between AAD fire (smoke visible from parachute rocket launch) and parachute appearing. - parachute seems to be reefed (like on space rocket). So, the Cypres might have fired at 750 feet, but it was not enough for this kind of parachute, IMO. 20220425_174719.mp4

Nice flying Luke. Andy must be bummed he didn't get a shot. Since others took this thread off track with chatter about careers and titles, I'll ask if they should have used Teslas "self-flying" SW? LOL.

Maybe next with two Otters and 10 skydivers in each from 15,000. I'll float.....

Well, at least no one got hurt.

You forgot to mention Italians. I know some who claim to have olive complexations.

This is not the work of rug pee-ers man.

Ok, I'll try to put this 'properly'. I don't see any issues with those people in 'positions of power and responsibility' reacting strongly to this. They were in their offices, minding their own damned business when they were told (more or less) 'run for your lives, there's an airplane about to attack us!!' From a supposedly responsible security force, that's not a warning that's going to be taken lightly. To later find out that it was: A - Not a threat at all. B - A plane operated by the US Military. C- That the people investigating it are starting to falsely lay blame (story says that "Officials believe, based on a preliminary review, the pilot may have not properly reported taking off or had appropriate clearance", yet also says "Air traffic control recordings capture the army plane coordinating its flight with the control tower at nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport."). Would be rather infuriating. To insist that those responsible for it be held accountable is not unreasonable. I have no clue who screwed up. I doubt it was the GK. They've done this too many times in too many places not to know the drill. And, being 'the Army', I'd bet very heavily that they have a written procedure that details all the steps, including those that cover notification of proper authorities. Did the FAA fail to notify the security people? Perhaps. I don't know the procedures and such for authorized flights into that sort of restricted airspace. For the plane to be in contact with ATC AND in that restricted area means someone at the FAA knew about it and was ok with it. That doesn't necessarily mean that the FAA passed the info onto the security folks, but I think it makes it less likely that the screwup was at the FAA. My first instinct is to blame the security guys. They are the ones who never bothered calling the FAA (control tower) to see what was up. They are the ones who over-reacted and ordered the evacuation. Did the message get sent and never read? Did the person who received & read it not pass it up the chain of command? Did it get 'lost in the shuffle'? I don't know. I'm rather curious to find out.

Actually it shouldn't be that hard to do. If they've got the fall rate and stability of the airplanes worked out, which apparently they do, I bet most good skydivers could fly the stunt. And with practice, which they are doing, climbing in would become as rote as climbing out. The ballsy part would be if they plan to do the stunt chuteless. Not sure how they would work that out with the authorities. I remember Jimmy Tyler at least claimed he went down to Mexico to do his chuteless stunts, and Travis Pastrana got in some trouble for doing his. Don't know what arrangements Luke made for the net jump. I can't say that I wholly disagree with that. But the promotional/money aspect is the whole/only reason to do something like this.

I guess it's because I dislike the whole circus and promotional thing. I certainly am not worried about skydiving looking bad. There is no such thing as bad publicity. If there is anything to worry about being carried over to skydiving it would be more young men with unrealistic expectations showing up at the DZ to learn cool stunts. But we already deal with that all the time anyway. I much prefer the typical BASE ethic where for the most part you do extreme things and only your close friends know about it. And that is the other part. Some of the target audience for these things has bloodlust. Will the gladiator slay the lion? It will only sell as a live event. No one pays to watch stuff like this if they know the outcome. I will likely watch it as well. But certainly not on pay per view .It will still be cool to see footage a week later on Youtube. I don't feel a need to see death defied.

You just haven't lived until you've been chased by Guido the Killer Pimp.