I Dropped 300 Toy Paratroopers From My Airplane!

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8 ай бұрын

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@GlenAndFriendsCooking 8 ай бұрын

Now at night - with LED lights attached.

@stevencristofero968 8 ай бұрын

From a 68 year old kid who also played with green paratroopers, GREAT FUN!

@billyking7397 8 ай бұрын

and an 82 year kid. Got a big smile. Thank you

@debbiemckee2530 8 ай бұрын

Wow! What an amazing human you are! You captured an almost 90 yo who hasn’t smiled in years and had him chuckling! Thank you! Feel free to use the arena as a « target zone » anytime! Keep the magic alive! ❤

@DailyNPCVlog 6 ай бұрын

😇

@wallacehunt8395 6 ай бұрын

I couldn't stop smiling throughout the whole video because you brought out my inner 10 year old. While growing up the trees around my parent's home were doted with little green paratroopers. Dad called them "winter leaves" because they would be the only thing left after fall. Over the years we would reminisce and laugh about those little guys hanging up there. That was 54 years ago. I showed this to my last brother and ordered some men. Today we went to see our dad, abd today the three of us put some leaves back on he trees. thank you.

@ViperTango 8 ай бұрын

This reminds me of when I was 8 in cub scouts. We would design protective devices around an egg to keep them from breaking. A pilot from a local airport would then drop the eggs from his plane at about 500 feet. He dropped boxes full of these egg devices and the eggs that didn't break, the designer would win a prize.

@ericturner2477 8 ай бұрын

I remember doing that. Dad wasn't happy when I crawled under the recliner and ripped out a bunch of foam 😂.

@Thuper_thit1296 7 ай бұрын

What was the prize

@ericturner2477 7 ай бұрын

@@Thuper_thit1296 I remember getting a ribbon.

@m1t2a1 6 ай бұрын

I had an egg lofter model Estes rocket in the early 70s. Same age. Parachutes are as much fun as the rockets.

@CraftAero 6 ай бұрын

10:34 One guy chickened out.

@mobiltec 8 ай бұрын

We used to do the same thing for a couple hundred kids each year the day before Easter. But we did it under our own canopies while skydiving from a Twin Otter. We would jump, open our parachutes and then deploy the little plastic paratroopers one at a time out of a fanny pack. Hundreds of kids below would run around and collect them. Once we landed in the huge green field an adult pre-easter party took place on into the night.

@timothymulholland7905 8 ай бұрын

I’m close to 80 but my 8 year old is delighted! The bad guys are retreating. Thank you!

@Jeffrey-ed8sz 8 ай бұрын

The 80 year old me, just gave a big ol' toothless grin. Thanks Trent.😊

@14TheMoney24TheSH0W 8 ай бұрын

Now that is truly a safe, fun joy bringing experience! Thanks for making this one. Brought back memories of the early days flying with my dad for the pure enjoyment of it. Doing things like balloon popping (someone on the ground would release a helium ballon & you attempt to pop with the prop), flour drops and the like. Thanks again!

@joeygarza9550 8 ай бұрын

This reminded me of the little green army men from Toy Story and how if these little parachute guys had a life of their own, they would've all been serious about their little roles and treated this air drop with the gravitas that dangerous missions like these demand and require from real parachutists falling behind enemy lines!

@stretch737 8 ай бұрын

I’m 81 now but I did that with my super cub back in 1964 when my home town was celebrating it’s 100th birthday. They asked me to drop a scroll on a parachute over town that they would put in a time capsule along with other things to be buried for 50 years. So I made a box with a door in the front and back and mounted it out on my wing like you did. It worked perfectly, however someone put a picture of me flying to low over town and it ended up in the newspaper of the city where the FSDO was located and I had a visit a couple weeks later from the FAA. I won’t go into the rest of the story…That was a great video! I had lots of fun playing with home made parachutes too when I was a kid.

@BlazinRiver1 8 ай бұрын

I am only 1:54 into this and I already have Les Nessman in my mind giving an account........"as god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly".

@danielruff4632 8 ай бұрын

Great video Trent! I love the idea and the innovation! Totally brings the kid in me out!

@Deanjacob7 8 ай бұрын

What a great way to get the kids involved in your video❤️

@SilvaAdventures 8 ай бұрын

So much fun! Thanks for putting this great story together for all of us to enjoy!

@joeziegler9054 8 ай бұрын

Great job Trent! I played with these a long time. I used to wrap a rock up in them so I could throw them higher! It was a lot of fun back then. Thanks for sharing! 👍🏻

@fspfathersonpaintball6177 8 ай бұрын

Oh man Trent. That has got to be the coolest vid you’ve made in a long time. The smile on your face and the enthusiasm in your video just shows that you still LOVE making awesome videos and content even though you’ve been at it for quite some time. The longevity of your channel is a credit to your great content ideas and the down to earth way you present it. Keep up the great work. Love your stuff.

@patrickk1966 8 ай бұрын

Definitely a huge fan of diamondback nozzles so far

@stevet8121 8 ай бұрын

That's Mike Patey engineering right there.😂

@DWBurns 8 ай бұрын

That was epic. Love the safety precautions. Now you have some very nice cargo pods for the Freedom Fox.

@mandingo1979 7 ай бұрын

Don't forget to say "Thank you for the big dreams!" to that 8 year old in the moment. I did on skate ramp with you guys. Thanks man!

@darrylwebb388 8 ай бұрын

Haha, I also loved those little guys when I was a kid. Thanks for that Trent, brought back those great memories, looked super fun to do :)

@sheldonmurphy6031 6 ай бұрын

Yoo Mr Palmer! Congratulations On How Much Your Channel Has Grown Sir!! I first discovered your channel slightly before you introduced the Draco to us! Your adventures were freaking awesome!!! 😁 Seeing how well your channel has grown makes me super happy for you Sir! Keep Flying & Stay Blessed!!! Iowa

@fernandoorellana6356 8 ай бұрын

Awesome video Trent! Everyone’s 8 year old and 80 year old self is smiling right now! Great content as always !

@challenger2ultralightadventure 8 ай бұрын

Big smiles on this one! Thanks for bringing all us us along with you to have fun. Cheers from Winnipeg.

@slam854 8 ай бұрын

So happy to see you having fun at your "Operation Playhouse" hangar. Glad you all had some FUN!

@fredwilliams6843 8 ай бұрын

Big boys and their toys never gets old.

@jbblanchard3455 6 ай бұрын

Thank you and your crew too! Seeing this first thing in the morning definitely my "inner child" dance in a field catching parachuting toy solders! Don't have a mirror handy but I bet my face has a nice smile on it. Probably a bit of twinkle in the eye too! Thanks again.

@stonecoldmunchin 8 ай бұрын

I remember playing with those toys all the time. Pretty sure they are why later in life I became a skydiving instructor. Good times and blue skies!

@OddBeardActual 5 ай бұрын

As a 38 year old army veteran, who has jumped out of planes, but as a child thrown many of those off the roof, this is freaking awesome. Nice work. Cool video.

@pete2861 8 ай бұрын

Adults have helmets, kids just send it!! :D Great video, so much fun.

@lawrencemartin1113 7 ай бұрын

And that is one reason you learned to fly in the first place.....because deep inside, all pilots remain kids at heart. Thank you!

@stevecartagena9410 8 ай бұрын

So fun. I too spent hours making parachute guys with clothes pins and bits of cloth. I even bought some for my granddaughters for Christmas. Guess the boy in us never dies. ❤❤❤

@Kirithian 8 ай бұрын

Seeing Trent getting younger for a Day is getting me younger for like an Hour. Thanks Trent!

@davidmeek8017 8 ай бұрын

Aloha; thank you Trent. The very best Christmas present ever - reminding us all that the joy of our inner child is within each of us. Mahalo nui loa and Mele Kalikimaka!

@AJHewson1 8 ай бұрын

❤ that’s a great quote at the start. Great job on making aviation fun for everyone!!

@Dr.Reason 8 ай бұрын

Awesome use and application of your 3D printer! Great fun

@ralphhubbell 8 ай бұрын

You must have hit a whimsical place in everybody. I found myself grinning like an idiot when they floated out! THANKS!

@arlo4051 7 ай бұрын

As Trent was reading the FAA regs all I could think of is the WKRP turkey drop (Which is a classic).

@Dctrue76 8 ай бұрын

That was great, thanks Trent!

@mjcaron1 8 ай бұрын

I must say,I am very impressed with the idea you came up with to kill time. Awesome sense of humor!

@RichWellner 8 ай бұрын

Really fun idea! Thanks for doing it!

@topguncg47 8 ай бұрын

Love it! Brings out the kid in all of us.

@medajim9092 8 ай бұрын

sometimes the simplest things are the best! Excellent vid Trent.

@keeppressing2051 7 ай бұрын

Loved it!!! Thanks for the video.

@mikewaterfield3599 8 ай бұрын

A little boy came to his mother and proclaimed, “Mom when I grow up I want to be a pilot.” With a sigh she responded, “Timmy you can grow up or you can be a pilot, you can’t do both.”

@tlfunk51 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing, that was great!

@tristinwild1347 8 ай бұрын

This is great Trent 😂 Couldn’t help but feel the reality that we live in a society that you have to worry about dropping toy troopers from an airplane that you may get in trouble. No matter you sure made me smile with this display haha

@stephenball1 7 ай бұрын

What an amazing concept. Not that everything is about making money, but this would be an amazing format of advertisement. You could work with the paratrooper manufacturers and put branding on the chutes and then drop them over events like music festivals or airshows. Thanks for spending time reminding everyone to never let go of childhood curiosity and creativity!

@bizzfpv 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the smile Trent! Ear to ear man!

@atomict1974 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 4 sharing that Dream! ✌🏻

@jakematijczyk6905 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for having fun and not being bullied by the faa because in my opinion you are a safe responsible pilot .

@jimhamilton4190 8 ай бұрын

Than You Trent ......That was Fun....

@GrumpyForester 8 ай бұрын

The obvious question is "Why?" The obvious answer is "Why Not?" Loved the video; all the aerial shots of the Kitfox taking off were truly spectacular with the lighting during that part of the day. I used to wear my butt out throwing and chasing my little parachute soldiers and Mom wasn't at all cool with my idea of grabbing the ladder to crawl up onto the roof for my flinging. Oh, to have a Kitfox and a 3D printer all those decades ago...that would have been epic!!

@SirFloofy001 7 ай бұрын

I cant help but imagine the Toy Story paratroopers "alright men this is the moment we have all been training our entire lives for"

@terrencejackson4587 8 ай бұрын

The 8 year old me: I spent countless days, weeks, years playing with these paratroopers. I became a SME on parachute rigging, but ultimately lost interest because in Arizona single story home, you rely heavily on a muscular lay underdeveloped arm to give the paratrooper enough altitude to allow the chute to safely deploy and enjoy it with any continued measure. Many years later, Hobby Lobby - a distributor of Graupner products, made an RC Parachutist. 30 years later, I still have it and it always takes me back to that heroic plastic man that was always up for an airborne adventure. “Keep your knees in the breeze Kramer!”

@desertfox3860 8 ай бұрын

That was fun! Thanks for sharing!

@RandomAndrew 3 ай бұрын

That was pretty awesome.. just getting caught up on all your content and man.. you're livin the dream! I was floored when I seen FreedomFox on flight sim 2020 so I bought it and have been flying it for a few hours a day when i can.. falling in love with it, even more so than the RedBull Carbon cub.

@davidduganne5939 8 ай бұрын

There are similar pod designs used to scatter cremains. (avoids blowback problems like you would get with an open window or door)

@EXROBOWIDOW 8 ай бұрын

Packing the parachutes, LOL. Gotta keep those little skydivers alive!

@rumbear1 8 ай бұрын

That. Was. Awesome!!! Outstanding video! It's physics, math, engineering.... well sort of, and hard hats! Yeah, hard hats! Good stuff with airplanes!

@carlsoll 6 ай бұрын

This is like a Kids Fantasy of - ‘The MOST you can possibly do with Para Army Men’ 😄

@tomcoryell 8 ай бұрын

Looks like big fun Trent!

@darrenmiller5893 8 ай бұрын

Ya just took me back at least 55 years! Thanks T.

@mikelowry007 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic content. Def played with these dudes a lot. 😊

@davidendsley2391 8 ай бұрын

That was Awesome! Reminds me of my GI Joe paratrooper 60+ years ago. Thanks for sharing 😂

@travisminneapolis 8 ай бұрын

I just picked up my first 3d printer over blackfriday and will actually check them out!

@travisk5589 8 ай бұрын

That hanger is turning in to quite the man cave.

@patrickheavirland3599 8 ай бұрын

Hello from Minnesota! Outstanding!!!

@shawnkilmer1249 7 ай бұрын

The 8 year old in me salurws you. Not all heroes wear capes. I had never heard of you. Now, because of this, I follow you!!!

@greenfire6924 8 ай бұрын

Looks like Trent is fishing for a KZfaq collab with engineer, fabricator, pilot, beauty queen and all-around genius Zyla Foxlin.

@nuvostef 8 ай бұрын

Yep, my inner child is chortling with glee! Totally cool, Trent. 😁🤙🏼

@trickydicky2908 6 ай бұрын

I used to launch 'paratroopers' with model rockets. I think the military calls that 'High Altitude High Opening' 😂

@JimWalkerMusic 8 ай бұрын

Made me smile tooo! I wanna be Trent Palmer when I grow up... or not grow up?🤔 LOL!

@timothyeldridge6822 8 ай бұрын

When you said it was "go time" to drop the troopers it reminded me of WW2. I wonder what Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhauer felt like when he decided it was "go time" on Normandy Beach. I enjoyed the video! We all still have a kid in side of us.

@slayer6936 8 ай бұрын

That was completely awesome. We used to make our own but they didn't do as well as the store bought ones. I was into them so much at 4 I tryed to jump off the roof of our house which was about 8 feet with a umbrella lol. I only sprang my ankle and had a sore ass from getting it spanked. And as that young kid I ended up retiring from the military. That left a huge smile on my face.

@paulsilva3346 8 ай бұрын

I dearly miss your co-pilot you need an observer for that drop 12:20 😮

@gregslaven813 8 ай бұрын

WOW! This put a huge smile on my face! Thanks for taking us all back to that day in our childhood!!!! p.s. I've watched this one a couple of times!!!!!

@waynepainter3000 8 ай бұрын

That was totally EPIC. yes every 8 yr old kid in us loving that moment.

@skyepilotte11 8 ай бұрын

Great idea...you brought childhood dreams to life. Thx

@silverdaggerbugs 8 ай бұрын

That was awesome!. I think we may grow older but are still 12 at heart. Like the new Channel opening too. Keep making the Videos there very entertaining.

@nobodynothing9950 8 ай бұрын

Great idea and execution!!! Just turned 50 and this took me back to when I was 5 playing with the paratrooper. Cool to see the kids and the grown ups all running a playing together.

@nobodynothing9950 8 ай бұрын

btw...I'm a machinist by trade (happen to machine rotating jet engine parts) so it's cool to see that 3D printer.

@lurkerrekrul 6 ай бұрын

I had some parachute toys, but I was usually disappointed with the weight to parachute ratio. They would always come down too fast for my liking. So I started making my own parachutes out of plastic bags and/or sheets of plastic, and string. My biggest one was like 3' around, and attached to one of those conical, plastic, hospital thermometer holders. They kind of resembled the Mercury space capsule, so I figured it was perfect. Of course, the larger the parachute, the harder it was to throw it up into the air high enough for a satisfying trip back down.

@dereksirduckin5973 7 ай бұрын

Mike would be proud of your work!

@HookedOnUtah 8 ай бұрын

one of your best ever!!!

@ky42 6 ай бұрын

Super Cool!!! My imagination did that back in the 60's with my army men! Cool to see it live action...lol😂

@OldPackMule 8 ай бұрын

Uh oh! Mike Patey now has competition in custom bush plane modification! 😂.

@graveworks1130 8 ай бұрын

I definitely remember this being a thing at air shows when I was a kid. I think for safety reasons they were dropped over the infield then kids were allowed to run out and collect them afterwards

@TFlight77 8 ай бұрын

What 8 year old dreams are made of. I am pretty sure this would also impress future 80 year old me as well.

@tigdogsbody 8 ай бұрын

You answered my question; thanks once again.

@--Zook-- 8 ай бұрын

This is amazing!

@FarrellMcGovern 8 ай бұрын

I, too played many hours with the paratroopers! And those basla wood gliders and rubber band powered planes. You have touched my 8 year old self and it me smile.

@johncordova8304 8 ай бұрын

Ah, now let’s see the video where you go and clean up all that litter.

@dizzystick9 8 ай бұрын

I like the 8yr old me! you rock!

@CarlinComm 8 ай бұрын

Oh well done! Bonus points for citing the regs :)

@stephenreese5921 8 ай бұрын

When I was a student pilot, the more adventurous pilots among us would launch inflated ballon’s at altitude over Disneyland and then cut them with their propellers. A whole lot dangerous than Trent launching his tiny paratroops, but just as fun!

@lonzo61 6 ай бұрын

I did a mission similar to this with my own plane about ten years ago. It involved two parachutes that were 3' and 5' in diameter, and I dropped them with each having a load of candy to a group of people at a graduation party. One chute opened fine, while the bigger one got hung up on my horizontal stab. It was kind of hairy, but I also fulfilled that kid-in-me impulse. Problem was, I damaged my horizontal stab and had to replace it at considerable expense. It was actually not all bad, because we found corrosion on the ribs of the original. I no longer am current, but I had fun with my plane. It was not, for me, just a way to get somewhere, but was more a way of exploring boundaries and being a free bird. Not that there is anything wrong with going places....