42,266 FEET WORLD RECORD HALO O2, 3-WAY SKYDIVE

West Tennessee Skydiving, Whiteville, TN.
HALO O2 EXTREME SKYDIVE- 09/23/23
WORLD RECORD HIGHEST 3-WAY SKYDIVE
from *(ALTITUDE UPDATED AND VERIFIED)* AT 42,266ft-(GPS Altitude) with
Alex Coker, Tylor Flurry, and Thomas Oquinns.
Ed Conway conducted his 2nd EXTREME HALO O2 SKYDIVE who was in freefall just shy of 3 MINUTES-(2min and 58seconds.)
-63F degrees at exit altitude.
It was a smooth jump with no issues.
Everyone onboard pre-breathes 100% oxygen on the ground for over an hour prior to startup and continues breathing on the O2 system, until exiting the aircraft. Once outside the aircraft, jumpers are breathing on their individual oxygen bailout systems.
This jump would have never happened without the DZO, USPA National Director, and Pilot of the Cheyenne 400LS, Michael Mullins.
A special thanks goes to air traffic controller, Shannon Jenkins, and everyone at the Memphis Air Route Traffic Control Center for giving us room to jump.
You guys are awesome!
Thank you to Southern Regional Director, S&TA, and O2 Monitor, Paul Gholson, and Aircraft Mechanic, Mike Turner, for creating a super safe jumping event. It's an honor to be a part of this great team of people..🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you, Heath Caos Thomas, of CAOS SUITS for sponsoring our jumpsuits, and to Master Rigger, Christa Andersohn, for the special O2 bag modifications!!
Thank you Lala Vidal for taking the ground photos. We appreciate you!
If you're serious about making one of these extreme skydives, then go to skydivekingair.com for more information.
Alex Coker
[e-mail]
www.imdb.me/alexcoker

[@giespel68]

Skydiver here. My highest jump was from 20,000 ft. Seemed like an eternity, lol. Kinda surreal. Great memories.

[@bikeflyguy]

Wow..awesome pics.. My first tandem jump inspired me to learn pargliding. I´ve never regretted it. Keep it up guys...Greets from Austria🙋‍♂

[@ClydeBuilt]

That's a 'Point Break's length free fall ! Awesome 👍

[@calebmcclure3893]

I found it kinda boring how they spent the whole free fall pretty much just holding hands. Especially with all that free fall time.

[@jerrydavis3282]

Very cool! It'll be 5 years on April 15th 2024 that Alex took me on my first tandem HALO jump at 28,300 ft. I had a blast. Something I'll never forget!!!

[@onelifetorisk]

Awesome stuff! That was a great jump!! Thanks for the memories. 🙏🙏

[@wf3363]

How much does this sort of thing cost?

[@onelifetorisk]

@@wf3363 If you're seriously interested, hit me up in my DM. I'm the Tandem Instructor for the jumps. We do: Regular Skydives, No O2 14,500ft -$355.00-(45sec freefall) (Includes pics and video from outside videographer) **Only Drop Zone in the world that goes to 41K** HALO O2 Skydives: 28,000ft- $5,000.00-(1min, 45sec) 36,000ft- $65,000.00 -(2min, 17sec) 41,000ft- $100,000.00 -(3min freefall) No Risk, No Reward No Risk, No Story Who Dares, Wins

[@Anonymous-lw1zy]

Great jump! Almost 3 minutes of free-fall - I am so jealous!!!

[@awakkhinisland180]

Beautiful jump, the sky is so blue, the limit of the horizon is sharp. Beautiful images.

[@macrovigilance]

Those prop contrails !!!!!! Brilliant guys... loved it... hats off to you all!

[@jumpmasterjm]

Who was the guy with no gloves?? Did he even have fingers left when he landed? Waaaay too cold for me, but you guys have fun, okay?

[@michaelmullins8328]

That was the oxygen jumpmaster, he did not jump, he took his gloves off to have maximum dexterity in turning the other jumpers oxygen valves on.

[@ugsisr]

Great jump...Absolutely beautiful. Thank You

[@cyclingbutterbean]

Lets see. Average air temperature at 40,000 is -70F. Terminal velocity is 120 mph. So 120 mph wind. That means the wind chill during this freefall is around -150F. That means these guys got a bit cold on this one! Great video! Just falling out of the sky with 2 of my besties!

[@bwanawilson5985]

Thanks for the calculations, and no words about the testis 😮😅 shrinking..!!?

[@giespel68]

Terminal velocity would be considerably higher in thin air, at that altitude.

[@mhxxd4]

Buts also much thinner air so it doesn't feel the same

[@lyingcat9022]

@@giespel68came to say the same thing

[@FISH-6789]

Amazing

[@johanneslarcher4934]

Such fun and overwhelming impressions. Fantastic Pics. Thanks. You are behaving well . How were the Temperatures at all that altitudes. Please some more technical background. Thank you so much for that Take

[@pentachronic]

Amazing. Looks like one hell of a fun experience!

[@msk806]

Perfect song ❤

[@UKPete]

Brilliant, well done, must be an amazing feeling!

[@nickdean1364]

Chuck Yeager set climb records in a Cheyenne 400LS, beast of an aircraft and only 44 built.

[@anne-vn2gz]

I thought no way a turboprop would get up to 42,000 ft. but a quick search revealed the PA-42 Cheyenne 400 could. Well it was limited to 41000' but that is because max. differential on the pressurisation, which wasn't required for the jump. Nice video.

[@JustMe-01]

WOW, 3x higher than I have ever skydived. Its hard to calculate the amount of free fall time because of the video edits, but it looked amazing.

[@psgsurferm8202]

In order to be HALO World Record....it's Not Only feet high jump...it's also feet at opening. For those who have not mentioned HALO means H= High A= Altitude L= Low O= opening . Everybody is excited about height...What altitude did they open at?? That is HALO. Otherwise it's just a high altitude jump.

[@daffidavit]

I think they opened about 5,000 ft. as I recall, probably higher than necessary to set a "low" jump record. I heard over 25 years ago about a military team that would practice jumping at 25K ft and open at 1,500 ft. at night. It's the low altitude opening at night that takes the nads of special people. @@psgsurferm8202

[@Turner.1]

Loving it,

[@yavannavalar]

One fellow of my skydiving Club (Long ago now I am old) was one of the first or the first who jumped from 10.000 m without Oxygen . He was not a reckless person but well trained and all was well considered.

[@davidbowden6407]

I’ve done just over a minute freefall and that was awesome, 3 minutes of freefall is truly stuff of dreams. Well done . Jealous as👍

[@arthurleroy7658]

Nothing shy of AWESOME

[@marksmith9176]

True sky gods, so cool.

[@SpecialAgentDepak]

True American badasses!!! God bless y’all and your families.

[@onelifetorisk]

Thank you!!🙏🙏🙏

[@Swift41]

This is the let's get behind enemy lines and bust up the train station type vide lol that supper badass

[@shanemasterson5602]

Probably THE best vid I've seen on YT in years , so wholesome , so energetic , and a blinding soundtrack , you can see the fun in the eyes ❤

[@TruthAboutHeaven]

Amazing jump!

[@wordcoffee101]

Ready to start my training

[@onelifetorisk]

Bring it!!💪💪

[@songformelissa]

Come see us at the USAF.

[@kennethavesato3883]

From an old Marine chute rigger😊😊😊😊❤❤

[@skyepilotte11]

Didn't know a King Air twin could reach FL 420...nice jump.

[@michaelmullins8328]

It is a Cheyenne 400LS, it is at a baro altitude of FL410 and a GPS altitude of 42,266'

[@abdullahilhanhatipoglu6245]

❤Yüksek atlayış ve tutuşma güzel 🇹🇷🙌👏🪂

[@user-jz9on4ek1e]

Wow..Incredible..

[@halffull9527]

Awesome!!!

[@donnymcgahan1158]

That was a hot 3-way

[@guillermodieguez239]

amazing!!

[@user-fu7no1jg8c]

You can prove two more things with this video. 1st, that your con- trail is exactly that; “condensation” trail. 2nd, the awesome planet is round. So let this video roll! Roll it everywhere. Yeah! You guys Rock!!!! Amen! Cool Drew.

[@hookooekoo2]

And the contrail evaporated just like in the old days!

[@psnikam5745]

Too good.

[@GinaONeil]

Wow! I just lost my lunch watching this video. Scary.Scary. Love the music too!

[@onelifetorisk]

Thank you, Ma'am!🙏🙏

[@evananderson1455]

I've only jumped once so far, 12,000ft. I am so jealous of this lol Very cool!

[@vol222nuit]

Congratulations for this fantastic jump ... I was wondering which biturboprop is able to reach such an altitude . I thought I recognised a Beechcraft super king but windows have a different shape on your plane. So I'm very curious to know which plane has allowed you to perform your record.

[@onelifetorisk]

Cheyenne 400LS

[@vol222nuit]

@@onelifetorisk Thank you for answering my question. In the light of it, I understand better the choice of this plane to accomplish your extraordinary record. This plane itself has extraordinary performances which were pushed by a legendary pilot . An extract from what I discovered on wikipedia: The 400LS made aviation history on 16 April 1985 by setting two new time-to-climb records for its class (C-1e Group 2, 3000m and 9,000m) and shattering two time-to-climb records for all turboprop classes (6,000m and 12,000m): with retired United States Air Force Brigadier General Chuck Yeager at the helm of N400PS (with co-pilot Renald "Dav" Davenport flying right-seat), the aircraft departed from Portland-Hillsboro Airport's Runway 31L, immediately reached a 5,959-foot-per-minute climbout and achieved its 3,000m record in 1 minute, 47.6 seconds; the 6,000m record in 3 minutes, 42.0 seconds; its 9,000m record at 6 minutes, 34.6 seconds; the 12,000m record at 11 minutes, 8.3 seconds (time-to-altitude records were captured by on-board video camera aimed at relevant panel gauges, timed with superimposed timer; also verified by Hillsboro Airport tower personnel via radar, using encoded altimeter data transmitted from aircraft to tower via transponder). Other records later set by the 400LS, again piloted by Yeager in 400LS N4118Y (later reregistered as N46HL) for the C-1e Group 2 class, were: Miami-to-Boston, Miami-to-New York City, San Francisco-to-Charleston, West Virginia, San Francisco-to-Cincinnati, San Francisco-to-Los Angeles, New York City-to-Paris, Washington, DC-to-Paris and Gander-Paris.

[@tristanswain4328]

I never skydived before… but I am an airborne guy out of fort Bragg NC… out of 63 jumps I can say this…. I think I would love to pull the cord as high as possible…. I love the ride down…. Now I want a powered paraglider.

[@JelMain]

That's an SF Low-Opening jump. 300 feet.

[@ss0073]

Man! That was one hell of a free fall! 👍👍

[@user-fu7no1jg8c]

Say the little rubber nose peace is so you can plug your nose with your hand and blow pressure into your ears as needed. I didn’t really see anyone doing that. Really do it as often as you like on a decent! It’s the going back up that naturally release air from the ears. That takes a little time and a yuan or too. Going down? That’s what they put the rubber there for. Hey thanks for the video! Awesome!

[@chrissample3047]

So awesome

[@Caninedriver]

Glad you did it your way. Ignore the control freaks!

[@IslandInsanity]

Bet at one point they were wondering if they’d ever reach earth again 😂

[@runwayray]

20 thou felt like a life time. 42 must’ve been awesome. Eat, Love-Skydive! Shawanga

[@lordvalentine471]

This is how I get to work everyday

[@JohnSmith-xi4um]

Gopro camera. That's why you can see the curvature of the Earth. Is it manipulation or technical impossibility? Kudos for the jump.

[@stevenallen2530]

Sick freefall

[@glorygulbi]

almost 12kilometes on the sky free diving 5 minutes over wonderful wonderful

[@highinthesky64]

Nice, but did you think about the certification of your parachute ?... in case of an unexpected deployment of the reserve canopy, at very high altitude at very high speed ?....

[@michaelmullins8328]

If we had some bacon, we could have some bacon and eggs, if we had some eggs. You can imagine a bad scenario on any jump, no jump is perfectly safe, skydiving is not safe. Although it could happen, an uncommanded deployment of a main or reserve parachute is a very low probability, especially on these jumps where we make sure that all gear is in as near a perfect condition is possible. Uncommanded deployments are due to poorly maintained equipment, or improper matching of reserve ripcord lengths. I have never seen, in my 61 years of skydiving and 4,500 jumps, an uncommanded deployment where this was not true.

[@wehErason]

that's rellay cool! mark!

[@patschannel938]

unreal

[@ronnieam33]

I got to do this 2 times when I was in the Navy once at night it was AWESOME!!!

[@oldmanandthesea3384]

Been there done that. Haze Gray and Underway.

[@PutinIsGay]

No you didnt

[@JelMain]

@@oldmanandthesea3384 Not to mention getting any fillings in your teeth redone first!

[@HyperInflation2020]

Please explain this comment? Thank you​@@JelMain

[@vincepolonkai2515]

Thats cool!

[@Nine7Smitty]

Youre a beast mr.coker.

[@arthurcatalanotto1151]

That's living!

[@airin3594]

That's pretty dope, would be awesome to do. I used to work at a small airport and I would sometimes talk to Alan Eustace, dude who free falled jumped at 123k feet, I didn't believe him when he first told me haha

[@onelifetorisk]

Yeah, Alan has an awesome story. Very impressive. This is about as high as we can go with the equipment and plane that we are using.

[@SteveBrosig-dh3xz]

Blue Skies Mates!!!!!!!

[@drmarkintexas-400]

I have two questions On pulling early... How long could you possibly stay under canopy before landing? And, how far could you track laterally?

[@scottcates]

about a minute per thousand feet of altitude

[@neil7813]

Insane

[@Benskybase]

So hight 👏👏

[@tony78uk48]

I dont do sky diving or want to, but the video was great 🙂👍

[@lobbyrobby]

I have 8 solo jumps. I got into skydiving because I love the canopy ride. Not so much jumping out of a plane haha. If I was on this jump I'd probably pull right away and end up freezing to death

[@FlightSimMega]

Lol!🤣

[@JohnPerson-yi2kr]

Hat off did it 101 x spment jumper

[@efromc1]

🔥🔥🔥👍🏿

[@Repo8971]

That’s longer than I freefall in my dreams. 😮😅

[@argentum530]

Just about the most fun you can have with your clothes on... Great video and kudos to the jumpers.

[@C-Wilsons-View]

👍 and subscribe. It’s free folks 🇺🇸🖖

[@onelifetorisk]

Thank you!! I greatly appreciate the support!! It means a lot.

[@songformelissa]

THAT WAS TOP TIER. AF PJ back in the day Coker?

[@davidpenney2334]

42266 feet divided by 5280 equals 8 miles high....Amazing jump🇬🇧

[@davewinch7677]

That's the song they should have played. 😲

[@josefgrombir4796]

42k feet,8miles, thats medival?

[@user-ej6db2bb3t]

And when you touch down, you’ll find that it’s stranger than known.

[@user-ek8zu2gv4t]

I see one jumper with an old school phone cord coming out from his left hip to the end of his left (altimeter side) wrist. What is the purpose for that ? Would you consider that an entanglement issue during a cut away ? There have been higher exit points. Was the record for highest 3 way ?

[@michaelmullins8328]

That cord is a push to talk switch that runs to a radio for communication. I would not consider it a snag hazard, it would simply pull away. This was the highest 3 way on record, there are no higher claimed jumps in the USA except for the 100,000 + altitude jumps made from the helium balloons, and those were solo drougefall jumps.

[@user-ek8zu2gv4t]

Thanks Mike. I was thinking Johnney Florez's wingsuit jump was over 40k, but it was not. 9 minutes of flight though. My best was an 18,000 ft. six way wingsuit jump. Not much, but still a good time.@@michaelmullins8328

[@johnreynolds1527]

42,000 feet They gotta Be Fallin around 180 mph

[@Resistculturaldecline]

Bet that was coooold 🥶🥶

[@wiseman9959]

Wow 😲🤩😍 ❤❤❤

[@wampwamp1773]

What was the temperature when you guys jumped??? -50F or less??? You looked cold lol.

[@ralphwatt8752]

" Airborne All the Way"

[@ironhorse1962]

Infantry all the way! 11Bravo.

[@ericartis6960]

That jump was a definite,"freebird"!

[@peace-to-the-world]

cool stuff

[@mazinzangana6018]

crazy heroes❤❤❤❤

[@raymondherbst7126]

What plane are you saying this was done from? Since FL350 is max for a King Air it must have been struggling and nearing compressibility of max and stall speeds. What mods were done to reach FL420 in a turbo prop?

[@michaelmullins8328]

It is a Cheyenne 400LS, which is certified to a baro altitude of 41,000'. The GPS altitude is used for the record, in this case the GPS altitude was 42,255'. The Cheyenne 400 does not struggle to reach these altitudes, it has 1,675 HP per side. Chuck Yeager set the time to climb records for this class of turboprop, and all turboprops, in 1985, records still stand: 3k meters, 9842’, 1min, 45 sec, 5184 fpm 6k meters, 19685’, 3 min, 43 sec, 5320 fpm 9k meters, 29527’, 6 min, 34 sec, 4413 fpm 12k meters, 39370’, 11 min, 8 sec, 3546 fpm

[@theaceofspades485]

I want to start living my best life.

[@SoniaMaria-tq2me]

Vocês têm muita coragem 😮

[@voodoo1449]

I've only been to 22,000...WOW!

[@leisulin]

Nice skydive! (But I had to mute the annoying music).

[@MikeyPipesUncensored]

Awesome video! Wish I had the balls to jump out of a plane!

[@ironhorse1962]

I jump out of planes all time. When they are on the ground.

[@biffdanielson2820]

My wife needs to try a 3-way skydive.

[@mariapanzardi4062]

fabulous ❤

[@Jrad117]

Terminal velocity is a great movie.

[@rogercrow6698]

3:50 se alcanza a ver la curvatura de la tierra. excelente!

[@kevinwilliams2261]

Gotta be an awesome view from way up there!

[@oschonrock]

Great stuff. slightly weird how the video circle back to higher altitude have way through. I would re-cut that, to be more accurately chronological

[@onelifetorisk]

The reason for the "weird" edit: The first part of the video shows the entire freefall UNCUT for the viewer to see and time the actual length of the freefall, which was just shy of 3minutes. There were two other jumpers in the video and they also deserved some screentime, so they were added after the first UNCUT freefall view. That's why it showed them in higher freefall later in the video. There's also some views purposely showing one of the jumper's altimeters around 29,000ft, another shot around 19,000ft, and then shows the altimeter steadily counting down.

[@ivantcherniaev7548]

How did you get a turboprop up to that altitude? And did he beat you on the way down?

[@onelifetorisk]

He has to take it down slow on the extreme HALO O2 jumps, so he lands shortly after we land.

[@khaniesue]

Flew in a lot of aircraft in the military but stayed away from jump school. This gave me a sweaty upper lip. LOL....I must have fallen off a building and died in another life.

[@kris4897]

Nice.

[@oak4901]

Sterling drake as a teenager did a 47000 foot HALO with NASA supplied gear outside of the heating system he devised on his own. In the 1990's IIRC....

[@utley]

is that a Beech 1900D?

[@daffidavit]

I wouldn't have guessed a Piper Cheyenne turboprop would get up to that altitude.

[@rogerlishman2532]

It has a great engine installation - Honeywell TPE331-14.

[@raymondherbst7126]

It won’t

[@daffidavit]

After doing a little research I found that the technical specs for the Piper Cheyenne 400lS indicates it has a "service ceiling" of 41,000 ft. That's not it's absolute altitude capability, but the height at which it will climb at 100 ft/minute under standard conditions at gross weight. Thus, when it's loaded with less than gross weight, it can climb at 100 ft/min. to an even higher altitude. So 42,666 ft was likely the GPS altitude read on this particular day when the plane was loaded at less than gross weight. It likely had enough fuel to fly that high with sufficient reserves for a safe return to an airport directly below it. A very well planned mission. @@raymondherbst7126

[@michaelmullins8328]

It definitely will, it is certified to 41,000' baro altitude, I am the pilot and I have been to 41,000' numerous times. The altitude of 42,266' was the GPS altitude, and the GPS altitude is what is used for the record altitudes.

[@daffidavit]

If you really are the pilot, I'm very impressed with what you did. If not, I'm still impressed with the true pilot. I tend to believe you. Nice video. @@michaelmullins8328

[@GJones462-2W1]

15K? Sure, all day, but it's my dream to HALO, and freefall for THAT long! Just gotta get around to doing it. I know it'll be totally worth it...