US Army Airborne Veteran Rates 9 Parachute Jumps In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
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- Former US Army Parachute Team member and combat veteran Michael Elliott rates nine airborne jumps in movies, such as "Mission: Impossible - Fallout," for realism.
Elliott breaks down the accuracy of static-line jumps, skydiving scenes and military free falls, such as HALO jumps, in "Godzilla" (2014), and "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" (2018), starring Tom Cruise. He rates paratrooper jumps in "A Bridge Too Far" (1977). He looks at the realism of demonstration and competitive-style skydiving in "San Andreas" (2015), "Die Another Day" (2002), and "Point Break" (1991), starring Keanu Reeves. He also breaks down the plausibility of emergency-parachuting techniques in "Drop Zone" (1994), "Kingsman: The Secret Service" (2014), and "Black Widow" (2021), starring Scarlett Johansson.
Elliott is a 26-year combat veteran and was a member of the US Army Parachute Team, nicknamed the Golden Knights, for 11 years. He is the founder and president of the All Veteran Group, a parachute team of active and retired military members that focuses on parachute demonstrations and tandem parachute experiences.
You can follow Michael here:
www.allveterangroup.org
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Had the privilege of jumping with this man in 2017. Very very knowledgeable and professional. Very happy to see they did us airborne folks proud
Airborne
As a former instructor myself, I can say for sure this man is true to his word. Great video!
How about the one I wish he'd done - Heartbreak Ridge and Eastwood's "Jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft is not a natural act." pep talk to Swede?
Do you have to be SF to get free fall school ? I'm going in as 11x option 40 but I've been told I can only get free fall if I go RRC, CAG, SMU, CIF not 75th
as a former english speaker, this guy has no idea how to pronounce debris.
@@1ice3690 Yeah brother, Freefall is for special operations units missions only. By special operations I don't mean only "Group", there are some units like LRS, LRSD, and Some Ranger that have needs of squares. The best suggestion I can give is get Airborne school in your contract and that will start you on the path and then your choices begin after that. Some people are able to get RIP (Ranger Indoctrination Program) in their contracts I am told but cant confirm personally.
Good Luck - ATW
@@PsychoKillerSquirrel thanks for the information. I'll be getting an 11x option 40 which gets me into rasp 1 so at least I'll get into regiment. I know a few who are in RRC, CAG, CIF ( or whatever CIF is now), and SMUs that all got free fall and even scuba qualified.
I loved this guest expert. Aside from obviously being outstandingly knowledgeable and educational about his area, he really made the effort the explain his rating for each scene as well as he could (you could see, in several moments, that the video would be cut before he finished explaining the scene and his rating). Please bring more guests lime this guy, this is what makes this series soooo good!
He didn't explain anything on why he cut the marks for themission impossible jump though
I used to film the golden knights sometimes (the new guys doing CRW) and they were always the most professional and nicest guys.
Earthling he took points for the storm. This is called how real is it. And he didn't jump in a storm so points off for not being real. Clear sky gets a 10/10
Funny cause I feel completely opposite. Dude doesn't know the difference between HALO and HAHO. Not to mention he gives Point Break a 5, despite the footage literally being Patrick Swayze and a guerilla camera crew going skydiving on a day off from production.
@@andrewrippel6164 Point Break is amazing and we'd always parody the lines on the way to altitude and quite realistic in the sense of they were actually skydiving. It was the talking in the air that always made me facepalm
🇩🇰 Did you know, that the test jumps for the stuntmen in the Mission Impossible 6 scene were done at Dropzone Denmark ? 👍🏻
They jumped from 20.000ft testing the actual O² helmets that are used in the movie.
I was part of the ground safety team for the stuntmen. 🤙🏼😎
So cool men!!
Is it true the jump was performed more than a month?
But they still alot of CGI and stuff.
Amazing man. It must have been amazing to be part of it...
I had several friends in the aircraft for the jumps made for the movie, one of them actually doubled Henry Cavill
I'm a veteran that served in the 82nd Airborne. Mike Elliott is spot on with his assessments and very sharp dude. AATW Brother!
82nd MP Co back in the 80's. 44 jumps at Ft. Bragg and few other drop zones. AATW!!
Ha god love you guys. I stayed on the ground thank you very much lol. But met a number of special forces guys at my school as it was worth a lot of promotion points. Fun guys! Thanks for your service all!! :)
@Aditya Chavarkar AATW means Airborne All The Way. At Fort Bragg, when saluting a Airborne officer, the greeting would be "Airborne" and the response would be "All The Way" or "All The Way and Then Some."
Concerning A Bridge Too Far, my dad was one of those jumping out the plane and yes they used actual British Army paratroopers for those shots. So aside for some camera trickery to make it look like more planes & paratroopers than there actually were, yes it was completely 100% done for real.
I knew a TA Para guy who was on this shoot. He said there were only one or possibly two Dakotas used and most of the troops jumped from Hercules aircraft which were kept out of shot. The best thing he said was that, apart from being given WW2 Denisons to wear, they just used their normal 1970s equipment as it hadn't advanced much since 1944!
I was wondering about that myself. For that kind of shoot they would need teams that are expertly trained and who better to do them than real paratroopers themselves.
Yes; a REAL company of paratroopers jumping out of real 'period' C47s/Dakotas. I figure you can't get more real than that.
I enlisted in Para Reg in 1980 A Bridge to Far was compulsory viewing a lot of my instructors had jumped in the movie. Technical fault in the movie the Brits are jumping with reverse chutes WW2 they didn't.
@@steveforster9764 Interesting point, the problem with war movies and equipment is sometimes what was used is no longer available. Case in point the German tanks used in that movie were Leopard tanks because the panzers were no longer around. They even had to use fiberglass mock ups of Sherman tanks because they only had four or so real ones. (Patton was even worse because they used American M47s and M48s tanks - ironically Patton tanks). As for parachutes, someone like me who was never in the service let alone jump trained wouldn't know it just by looking at it. Nevertheless, it is a good point to remember. I would ask if there is any difference between the two parachutes and if it would make a difference to the people using them. Considering the fact the ones jumping were paratroopers would they prefer the modern chutes to the older ones and would that make a difference? Would they need different training to use the older style chutes?
Great info about the WWII paratroopers!
My GF’s (late) father was in the Australian army during WWII and he ended up as a jump instructor in the pioneering 1st Australian Parachute Battalion, and wearing Australia’s first red beret.
He’d say that during his training jumps, when the jumpmaster told you to go, you had to show no fear or hesitation. If you hesitated even a second, you were out for good!
My GF’s father said he was young and stupid back then and had no troubles going ‘full send’, a term in today’s language that describes their actions perfectly.
Balls of steel!
I was an army paratrooper and parachute rigger for about 4 years. I can tell you that from day one, they preach packing the parachute correctly over anything else. It’s cause each chute is packed and logged and if anything ever happens, they know who prepared it.
When I was in, if you suspected the chute wasn't rigged properly, you could hand it back to the rigger and he had to jump with it (Yes - he, no she - I went through Basic Airborne before the 82 went coed)
Packing a chute was the one job that I flat out did not want to do while in the Army.
I was really hoping to see scenes from Band of Brothers. Not only static line jumps but them preparing and getting into the planes with all their gear. Would have loved to see his reaction to that. Loved this reaction though! Thank you Michael for your time doing this and for your service!!
They showed one military jump, all the others were Hollywood fancies...
I don't think he knows that much about WWII jumping, he really didn't have much to say about A Bridge Too Far, whereas all the other jumps he was sharing several technical details.
It isn't a surprise that the "A Bridge Too Far" footage is 10/10, it was the Parachute Regt doing the jump for the film.
Thanks for sharing some of your expertise and experience with us. My Dad was in the British Parachute Regt. 4 years after the war so the kit and jumping was virtually unchanged. He said they had no backup chute... Jumped from Dakotas all static line drops. He did one glider exercise too but they shortly stopped glider ops because there were too many dangers and potential of losing a whole platoon in one bad accident. He joked that they must of disliked him because a month after he left they brought in backup chutes and introduced new aircraft with rear exit ramps which were a whole lot safer. RIP Dad. Always in my heart.
16000 jumps? Now there's what you call an expert all right. Good job using this man.
Yeah, that probable if u run the analytics.
16000 more than I’ve done.
That's an average of one jump a day for almost 44 years. Amazing. At some point he must've done many jumps a day.
@@ironcito1101 if you jump for a living, you can easily hammer 5-8 jumps a day, depending on weather
@@ironcito1101 That's what I estimated as well. Even If you jump 10 times a day (Which seems a little far fetched, given the time to pack a parachute, check it and get airborne to a sufficient altitude while being alert enough) it's an incredible amount of time spent in the air.
“Yep that’s actually me doing the jump in this movie, I’ll give it an 8”
Love the nod to John Steele at Sainte-Mère-Église at the end there.
I have to say the person who was trusted to parachute in tandem with the former president of the USA is absolutely a expert on this!!
I do not see the Secret Service trusting any other group than the Golden Knights to jump with a former US President.
It's not like HW hadn't parachuted before... mostly a concession to age, rank, & brittle bones
No surprise Tom Cruise did it right…dudes a legend
Well, at worst he hired the right people to choreograph the scenes. But probably did his googling. 😉
Tom Cruise is actually a licensed skydiver - that entire scene was shot in Perris, CA, if I recall they had to do about 120 or something skydives to get the entire thing as it is.
Correction: shot in UAE but he has a skydive with James Cordon in Perris, CA
@@ILubBLOfficial Correct. Whatever personal feelings I have for and/or against Tom - one thing is undeniable - that man does 99% of his own stunts and will put his own body on the line to learn how to do it correctly. Dude is commitment made manifest.
I remember a line where Simon Pegg was nervous that Tom was going to be his own stunt driver to which the director replied “I don’t have anyone better.”
Fun fact: Tom Cruise is an actor of Top Gun
So, no one wanted to tell him that the Mission Impossible jump was real? Really? They only added the storm as CGI.
That’s amazing
So? Nothing special. The 10/10 scene he rated was done at a time where there was no CG.
What he did was judge the choreography.
@@Ganiscol The main actor doing an actual HALO jump is nothing special? Tom Cruise is there on 25.000 feet for real.
Not everything you love have to be a 10/10
@@Ganiscol "The 10/10 scene was done at a time where the was no CG" So? The MI scene was done at a time where there was, but it still wasn't CG. He's rating for accuracy, you can't get more accurate than the real thing.
I love that the main criticism for Die Another Day is that he wouldn't get approval to land that close to people. Incredible level of critique.
This man's reverence for WWII paratroopers is touching.
He tandem jumped GEN Patton's granddaughter into a D-day anniversary event. He is a super nice guy and very good at what he does.
@@brianbrown23 That's just awesome. AND he tandem jumped a retired President? I wish I had this man's career.
Would've been nice to see his opinion on how Band of Brothers portrayed the Normandy and Eindhoven jumps.
I have had the very unpleasant experience about 40 years ago of watching of a friend unable to pull their reserve rip cord. He was using a rig made by Pioneer Parachutes. It was a "convertible" rig that could convert from the reserve on your back or on the front for doing "style jumping". It came with 3 rip cords, one for the main, the reserve on the back, and the reserve on the front. The rip cord for the back was much longer then the one for front mount. The problem was many people lost the short reserve rip cord. If they decided to do some style work and moved the reserve to the front they used the longer reserve rip cord. This meant they had to loop the rip cord and rip cord housing under the bungy cords. Unfortunately because of the increased friction caused by the extra loops he could not pull the rip cord. This was the first parachuting accident the Canadian Dept. of Transport ever investigated as an air accident.. After testing the reserve in their lab they stated the way the reserve rip cord was routed there is not a man alive that could of pulled that rip cord in the air. Pioneer Parachutes in all their documentation stated only the short reserve rip cord should be used for the reserve when mount on the front.
I am really sorry about this. I know it sounds absurd and probably insensitive. But by any Gods Miracle, did he survive ?
@@innigaadu Come on now
something would be very wrong if a Bridge too far didn't get a 10. Those paratroopers are actual British Army Parachute Regiment soldiers, and they justified their being in the film as extras because filming doubled as a training exercise.
Wow, one of my favourite guests on this series! Chrarisma + professionalism + ability to explain... 10/10
I love that Godzilla HALO jump with that haunting A Space Odyssey soundtrack.
A friend was in the Parachute Regiment when A Bridge Too Far was filmed. They performed the drop that is shown in this scene. That is why it's correct and a 10/10, as they were proper Airborne troops.
I love these breakdowns. They are very informative. I learn a lot.
Especially to Point Break.
Whoa!!!!!
Don’t learn too much
So glad he pointed out the difference between being Airborne and being a operator that's Airborne. It's a whole different level
This is great. We need an expert for every category of movie lol.
“Ed Kemper rates serial killer scenes from movies and tv”
There is about a million of these kinds of videos
Nitro Circus had stuntman Travis Pastrana jumping out of an aircraft without parachute once. Another jumper helped him into a harnass in freefall and he landed safe.
SO happy to see Drop Zone represented! It's an under-watched but completely wonderful 90's action thriller. Wesley Snipes vs Gary Busey - c'mon!!
I didn't like it tbh... ❤️
As Insider stated itself: "If you have seen any movie in the "Mission: Impossible" franchise, this next fact won't surprise you: Cruise did the entire HALO sequence without a stuntman. But pulling off the sequence - which included 106 total jumps to get three scenes and was all done after Cruise broke his ankle earlier in production - was as epic as what is on the screen". Sooooo....11/10 would be more appropriate.
Nah, 8-9. The jump itself was real, but there were parts of it falsified for the sake of movie magic.
missed the part about jumping into a storm, did you? maaaaaybe you don't know nearly as much as an expert?
I'm pretty sure the 7 factored in the fact that they actually performed a HALO jump. He pretty clearly stated that what made it unrealistic was the storm and he's there to rate the realism of a scene from the perspective of a parachutist, not how awesome the stunt was.
Lol you don't get extra points for being stubborn. Use the damn professionals next time, Tommy boy!
@@blacktimhoward4322 Nah...just don't set your big set piece in unrealistic conditions. If professionals did it and they added in a storm with CGI, he'd still have docked the points. As the guy said, he executed a proper HALO jump but doing a HALO through storm clouds is unrealistic.
This guy wins the gold medal for the harshest scoring in the history of reaction videos!
Wrong. No kung fu or military history guy has given above a 4 lolol you gotta watch more lol
Loved his commentary, informative and detailed...What an experience he has!!!
Thank you for your service, and your interesting and informative breakdown!
Travis pastrana did a stunt where he put on a parachute mid air. It was on an episode of Nitro Circus
What a gentleman this man is. Love his commentary. Learned a lot.
Thank you for ratinging these movies with your honesty! And thank you for your service!
There was one movie I was hoping to see, Eraser with Schwarzenegger. The stunt guy free falls out of a plane, goes after the parachute and puts it on, releases the chute just in time before landing.
That's my friend!! Outstanding, stellar job, as always Mike. Super cool seeing you on here
I only have 193 exits, in 7 countries 4 continents, some sport free fall and some military static line operations. I enjoy someone like Mr. Elliott speaking on this subject, and with my limited experience I can only watch in amusement at some of the parachute operations the pretenders in Hollywood try to make realistic. Market Garden footage is absolutely marvelous.
I love your videos and the knowledge it gives people
Shoutout to this man for his service
Cheers from San Diego California
very knowledgeable expert, I learned a lot from this video!
Man that Godzilla scene gives me goosebumps everytime
Fine work sir, fine work. It is a privilege to hear your wisdom. Your knowledge of the ruthless physics of gravity is not only enlightening, it is also very educational. Thank you sir.
So much knowledge and great ratings. Nice vid
Good insight! Thank you for your service! God bless!
Really good presenter could watch him talk about parachutes all day
Awesome to know people like this are walking around.
Great video 📹 👍 thanks for the upload
"I don't know of anyone that has put a parachute on in mid air" . Dude should meet Travis Pastrana
Came here to say this
He'd also be surprised to know there's been at least a couple adrenaline junkies who jumped without a parachute and landed just fine. One in a net and one in a fairly large pile of boxes.
Correct, and a grip and hold trick from Kingsman is also possible.
@@joecola6415 lol To be technically pedantic, ol' dude here was only talking about the difficulty of putting ON the parachute. In mid air. The bit about landing with no parachute at all, is sort of a different question.
But I'm glad you reminded me of those two other maniacs anyway. I had forgotten about them.
Great work 🥳 Thank you 💜
As a current sky diving student, this was tremendously helpful to further my understanding of skydiving. Thank you for your service, sir!
So glad you added a bridge too far one of my favourite movies
Well done you are a true professional 👏🏻
Thank you for explaining thing so clearly to a novice.
As a kid, The skydiving scene in point break 100% made me skydive as a adult.
Yeah. I even tried talking and going whoa!!! During the free fall.
82nd Abn. God I miss it. Did static line for 10 years as a rigger. Wish I could of done a reenactment in Europe back in the 90s.
Travis Pastrana has "Put on a parachute in midair", so it is definitely 100% possible
yup. except i think the guy held on to Travis, didn't put a pack on him. so it's actually speaking to the Kingsman scene, that you can land with two ppl not attached and hold on
I hear skydiving is one of those life changing experiences. I could never do it because of my nerves and fear of falling. But if I was ever given the chance I might try the static line jumping like this. No time to hesitate when the line is rushing out the door, so no time to think of how crazy this is. And if you do hesitate you can count on being pushed out. Plus you don’t have to worry about deploying your chute, because it should deploy the second you jump. Then all you have to worry about is not hitting anything or anyone or being hit by anything as you float to the ground. Of course this chance will probably never be made available to me, unless I join the armed forces. And the only way that is happened is if I am drafted.
If it makes you feel any better, as long as you jump from a plane thats moving you never get that dropping feeling in your stomach. It mostly just feels very windy with a good view.
You'd probably be better off being attached to someone :) at least for the first time.
@@reecemcallen same here 👍
honestly, it feels like you are floating not falling - I personally feel, much like scuba diving, etc, this is one thing everyone needs to experience, if yo u hate it, at least you know you hate it, odds are you will come out feeling like you can accomplish anything after that.
It's going around on circles till u reach the jump altitude is what messes with u. Other than that. Once u jump, it's just pressure. So. Take a deep breath. 😁😁
GREAT EPISODE!
Thank you for your service god bless
This guy seems like such a pro and very knowledgeable.
Great guy and a true professional
Great Video from an excellent host! Well done!!!
What a wonderful guy, enjoyed his expertise a lot.
very great detailed commentary.
I fell through a cloud once. I was told "If anyone asks, tell them you fell *around* the cloud." 😂
Hats offf to you insider
The narrator showed great expertise! Loved It!
Awesome video!
Great video!
You, sir, are a legend!
Nice work Mike!
excellent commentary
So realistic, just like we do it. 6/10
"Best game we've ever played. " 3/10 -IGN
So out of all the Bond movies with amazing parachute stunts to choose from, like the iconic ski chase from The Spy Who Loved Me or the fight with Jaws in Moonraker, you're telling me they went with Die Another Day? Now that's some extreme missed opportunity right there, good lord.
Moonraker opening is nice.
Should have done Licence to Kill. Ridiculous but awesome.
or even the HALO jump in Tomorrow never dies, long before mission impossible
I think the skydiving part of Moonraker is probably the most amazing. Obviously unrealistic freefall time but shows actual freefall movements of stabilizing from unpoised aircraft exit, tracking, docking, etc. all this done WITHOUT CGI or any other special effects exception film editing from several jumps and studio closeups. What I think is remarkable is consider when this was done in 1979 was unthinkable ten years earlier. The movie "The Gypsy Moths" in 1969 showed state of art skydiving with aerial filming by the legendary Carl Boenish. While 10 years after that looked primitive but someone had to start somewhere and the experience and techniques developed during 1970s provided truely amazing skydiving for Moonraker. And 20 years before that 1959 is the first documented baton pass.
HOOYAH. US Navy graduate of Basic Airborne, 1971. If you aren't "Airborne" you are just a "leg." Still jump and the Golden Knights are the BEST. Yeah, the Leap Frogs are awesome, but the Golden Knights are world champions in many facets of freefall parachuting. Thanks for the vid brother. Doc
I know you don't remember me but we served in B CO 2/504 together, I was in 3RD and 2nd platoon from Dec '93-Feb 97. I remember when you left to become a ABN instructor.
4:00 Travis Pastrana has put a parachute on in mid-air. The video is on CZcams, btw :)
"When humans get unconscious, their natural falling position is on their back"
Cats: "Hold my hooman"
That Jump Master knew his stuff. HOOAH!!!!!
Good stuff, thanks
This guy is super knowledgeable.... i enjoyed hearing him speak
I remember when I jumped from my first plane. Or leaned out. Lol. Such a rush. I had bruises between my legs for almost 2 wks.
man do I love a good expert!
Sad to not see the parachute scene in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers!
Over here in Belgium, we had the 'parachute murder' about a decade ago. Basically, a skydiver plunged to her death with a parachute that was tamperd with. Later, her co-skydiver was sent to jail, because she was convicted and believed to be the one who had messed up her parachute, because they both had an affair with the same guy (dude was their parachute instructer, no less)
The way he says "debris" though! I love this guy and this video! Thanks INSIDER!......Inside her??? ......NM!
Yayy a bridge too far gets recognition
It is one of the best films
This was interesting. Though, I don't fully understand rating - sometimes he made a point that film is not realistic, but gave a high note. Everything else is really cool, I've enjoyed hearing this guy.
This man called goosebumps chill bumps
Regardless of what ya think of the movie, that Godzilla scene is always 😩🤌🏼
Knowledgeable dude!
Thank you for your service...BSBD
he sounded so teary in the end talking about the WWII soldiers, shows how much he respects them. amazing
Mike is a legend!
Good video brother
That's quite the cinematic shot from godzilla... wow
Great job. Airborne! All The Way, Sir or Sargent. Thanks, David
0:16 man, he's got to have titanium knees and spine
That first clip was very tactical with the white-green highlighting in the face mask - gotta give those ZU-23 gunners something to aim at.
Fun fact: Patrick Swayze actually did skydive during that scene in Pointe Break (1991). No stunt man.