Pilot cousins to attempt 1st 'plane swap' in midair
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.
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JLAmber wrote:Darwin Awards on standby, this could be very messy!
According to US media, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that it denied a request on April 22, 2022, for the stunt and event organizers to get an exemption from regulations that cover the safe operation of aircraft.
The FAA opened an investigation into the circumstances that led to one of the aircraft crashing.
captoveur wrote:I dunno.. There was something nice about the early days of flying when people did stunts like this. Bringing it back a little bit isn't awful.
The only people really in danger were the idiots doing the stunt. If they want to take themselves out of the gene pool, who are we to stop them?
ShanwickOceanic wrote:Sometimes it's easier to get forgiveness than permission