Red Bull Airplane Swap

Red Bull Airplane Swap

Last month a couple of guys attempted a James Bond style stunt with diving airplanes. They took off together, put their airplanes into dives, jumped out and attempted to 'fly' to the other's airplane. One pilot was successful, the other plane did not cooperate, so the other pilot pulled his ripcord and parachuted to the ground.

I'm posting about it now because we have this photo.

The airplanes were modified for this stunt. One of the modifications was the installation of an oversize speed brake, shown in the photo above. It's that big perforated panel hanging from the bottom of the airplane. Jet fighters are usually equipped with speed brakes, but they are tiny relative to the size of the airplane. I've never seen one this big before.

This stunt was inspired by a similar stunt in the 1995 James Bond film Goldeneye:

Golden Eye plane jump
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Not surprisingly, the James Bond stunt was faked. However, in 2017 a couple of Frenchmen performed a similar stunt using wingsuits. They also had a pilot in their airplane.

2 Wingsuit Flyers BASE Jump Into a Plane In Mid-Air | A Door In The Sky
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P.S. The airplane swap stunt was done over Eloy, Arizona. It's not much of a place.