To open the show after the lunch break, the US Army Golden Knights demonstrated why they are one of, if not THE, best parachute teams in the world.
First they dropped in a paratrooper with streaming the US Army flag.
The Golden Knights were not content with merely demonstrating how your landings can fail to equal your takeoffs.
They decided to demonstrate how your landings via parachute can fail to equal the number of parachutes you started with.
They did this by deliberately fouling a chute and cutting it away.
Step One: Foul up a perfectly good chute:
Step Two: Cut off the main chute and watch it floating away:
Step Three: Deploy the reserve chute.
He landed faster using his reserve rather than the main chute, due to it being a smaller size, and quite likely also due to the additional weight from carrying a couple big brass ones.
He then nonchalantly landed right on the mark like it was just another day at the office.
Next was a jump of two jumpers who deployed the chutes together while staying connected almost all the way to the ground.
They disconnected seconds away from landing and each made a perfect landing.
The final jumper carried the Michigan flag to earth.
That was one heckuva impressive display of skill, precision, and daring by the Golden Knights.
1 comment:
One of the many aspects of my flying career is the fact that my takeoffs in planes and my landings in planes is EXACTLY the same.
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