B-17 Flying Fortress Skydive with Chicagoland Skydiving Center

It's not every day you get to jump out of a Perfectly Good Flying Fortress!

Thanks to the Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour for making this once in a lifetime jump possible.
http://www.collingsfoundation.org/

<iframe src="https://www.snotr.com/embed/17657" width="400" height="330" frameborder="0"></iframe>

People who liked this video also liked

Comments

9 comments posted so far. Login to add a comment.

Expand all comments

46

+5 1. ChuckMaurice commented 8 years ago

Love the soundtrack (I had never heard of the Blood on the Risers song).

58

+2 2. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

#1 I find the soundtrack also very nice, especially this lovely song:

Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsM_VmN6ytk

62

+3 3. fjwjr commented 8 years ago

Very cool footage.

59

+1 4. Burimi commented 8 years ago

1:42 What a highway!!!

58

+1 5. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

#4 Just a common cloverleaf interchange between several highways...the trick is not to get on the wrong one when doing the change..

22

+1 6. swaffy commented 8 years ago

#4 Nice highway, but the British can do better! :- https://goo.gl/maps/R6Y27zNvnF52

59

+1 7. Burimi commented 8 years ago

#6 Nein danke! Die Deutsche Autobahn ist die beste!

58

0 8. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

#7 Ja, da hast du recht, lieber Burimi

29

+2 9. bndbnd commented 8 years ago

B-17, dropping joy since 1940's