On Sunday I had the opportunity to ride along with my friends over at the US Army Golden Knights while they did an exhibition jump at the Alliance Air Show in Ft. Worth, Texas.
I was sitting right in the doorway of the plane so I could get access to shoot the team with my big ass camera as they jumped, and although I’ll be posting a lot more photos this was by far the coolest picture I snapped.
SFC Will Fleming Literally Sky Dives
What we have here is Black Team leader and Airborne Ranger SFC Will Fleming as he exited the aircraft. But I must say, he did it with STYLE! You can also find the full sized version of this image over on my Flickr account. Feel free to friend me over there and I’ll friend you back!
As an extra little treat (or torture if you are on a slow connection), I created an animated gif to show you what it looked like when SFC Fleming took the plunge. But since it’s 3MB I didn’t want to embed it. You can CLICK HERE to watch the action live! Enjoy!
OMG that is real close, why didnt you try to jump?
Well, on this trip I was just along to take photos. But I’ve jumped with them twice, and I’ll do it again. One of the Golden Knights is actually going to teach me to skydive by myself pretty soon. ;-)
John P.
In the animated GIF, there’s a burst of purple smoke — it makes it look like he’s firing off the repulsors in his boots & jetting off!