Today, the third and final supermoon of 2019 rose over Los Angeles, which coincided with the Spring Equinox for the first time since 1981. The Red Bull Air Force celebrated the occasion by swooping down from a helicopter 4,000 feet above Los Angeles into downtown at more than 120 mph.
The team – which included some of the Red Bull Air Force’s most experienced skydivers, BASE jumpers, and freeflyers on the planet – took to the skies above Los Angeles for the jump. Among these athletes were Jon Devore, Mike Swanson and Andy Farrington, who have a combined total of more than 70,000 skydives between them. The three athletes took to the skies and completed two jumps.
The team wore wingsuits that shape the human body into an airfoil, fitted with LED lights and sparking pyrotechnics, which added a touch of Hollywood glitz. The suits lit up the night sky as the sun set and the supermoon rose.
Leaping from a helicopter 4,000 feet above Los Angeles and travelling three feet forward for every one foot down, their southwestern one-mile flight took them past the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown hotel – which at 1,100 feet – is the tallest building west of Chicago. They finally pulled their parachutes at 1,000 feet and landed safely on the city streets below in the first-ever wingsuit jump into downtown Los Angeles.
#meteor began trending on Twitter as Los Angeles residents caught a glimpse of the wingsuits in the sky.
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