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A plane swap stunt, in which two pilots attempted to switch planes while midair, resulted in a crash landing in the Arizona desert over the weekend and prompted a federal investigation.
Red Bull conducted a stunt that involved a pair of pilots attempting to skydive into each other’s aircraft mid-flight, and they are now facing a federal investigation.
Luke Aikins and Andy Farrington were cited for recklessness after the nosedive stunt, which resulted in a crash.
April 24 – A Cessna 182 crash landed after a plane swap stunt went wrong during a livestreamed demonstration in Eloy, Arizona. [29] The stunt by Red Bull involved bringing two Cessnas into a nosedive, when each pilot would then jump out, skydive across and enter the other plane to land. [30]
Luke Aikins (born November 21, 1973) [1] is an American professional skydiver, BASE jumper, pilot, and aerial photographer.He is the first person to intentionally dive from mid-tropospheric altitude and land safely without a parachute or a wingsuit and the second skydiver to intentionally jump and safely land without using a parachute.
Dario Costa (born 9 May 1980, Manchester, United Kingdom) born to an Iranian mother and an Italian father, is an Italian professional Red Bull Air Race competitor, stunt pilot, aerobatic performer, flight instructor, Pilatus PC6 Porter paradropping pilot and author from Bologna, Italy [1] and is the first ever Italian to qualify, to compete and to win in the Red Bull Air Race World Series. [2]
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Goulian racing in London in 2008 Goulian flying his Edge 540 at the 2017 Red Bull Air Race of Chiba. Goulian was born into an aviation business family, which founded Executive Flyers Aviation, one of the largest flying schools in the Northeastern United States in 1964. [2] Michael's father Myron Goulian (also known as "Mike") was an FAA examiner.