Precision flying meets pure imagination as Red Bull’s aerial athletes and pilots join forces to turn the skies into the most elaborate obstacle course ever. Watch it now on YouTube and experience this spectacular wingsuit flight for yourself.
November 13 2025: What happens when the world’s best aerial athletes and pilots are given total creative freedom? You get the Ultimate Aerial Obstacle Course, a surreal 15-stage flight line looping across open skies, mountain ranges, and city skylines. Over the past two years, this once-in-a-generation collaboration brought together 34 athletes from across the globe to piece together an airborne playground unlike anything seen before.
“It’s the most fun project I’ve ever been involved in,” says Marco Waltenspiel, BASE jumper and member of the Red Bull Skydive Team. “Really it’s 15 projects in one, and something we’ll remember for a while!”
Every obstacle started as a wild idea from the athletes’ own imaginations. “With the crew we have, it was easy to brainstorm, as there are loads of creative people on the team,” says top wingsuit pilot Dani Román, who flew in formation for the hot air balloon target, among other obstacles. “Somebody brings an idea, then somebody else adds something.”
Those ideas didn’t stay on paper for long. They evolved into relentless testing, intense training and cross-discipline coordination between wingsuiters, skydivers, paragliders, aerobatic pilots, and drones. After years in the making, the team achieved its collective goal of combining all disciplines into one big ‘party jump’ in the sky, and you can watch it right now on the Red Bull YouTube Channel.
“There’s no roadmap for something like this. Each one of these obstacles is its own project,” says Luke Aikins, accomplished skydiver, Red Bull Air Force member, and one of the sporting directors consulting on the project. “The only way we were able to do it is that we have the best athletes in the world – and the impossible is what we do every day.”
Each of the 15 obstacles combined precision flying, engineering wizardry, and pure spectacle in true never-before-seen fashion. Jet skis were dropped out of planes, landing intact on open water under parachute control. Wingsuiters Andy Farrington, Mike Swanson and Sebastián Álvarez chased the smoke trails of Alpha Jets through a “painted sky tunnel” at speeds over 200 km/h, before threading through airborne rings held in position by paramotor pilots in a carefully coordinated flight that required millisecond precision. “It was one of the best flights of my life,” Álvarez later said.
In one of the wingsuit course’s wildest moments, three human catapults, created by DD Squad, hurled wingsuiters into open sky, giving them more speed and clearance than any mountain jump could. “The catapult was one of my favourites to help bring to life, as everything we did was totally new,” says Román. “Putting three catapults on top of a mountain is a lot of work. You pull them all at once and suddenly you’re flying, so that was really cool.”
From the catapult launch, the flight line transitioned to a high-altitude slalom through the Swiss Alps. For legendary wingsuit pilot Fred Fugen, tackling the obstacle alongside Amber Forte and Dani Román, it was pure wish-fulfilment. “It’s something we all dream of doing: having big pylons in the middle of the mountains and being able to do a slalom with your friends,” says Fugen.
Across Dubai’s beautiful Marina skyline, athletes raced through a slalom of skyscrapers, dived through a drone formation in the shape of a giant Red Bull can hovering 1000 feet above the skyline, before performing a tight-formation fly-by over the iconic Atlantis The Royal. “The Drone Can is one-of-a-kind. It was like a video game,” says Max Manow, one of the wingsuiters who flew through Dubai’s skyline alongside Marco Waltenspiel and Marco Fürst. “Now you have drones to fly through and aim at and play with. I think it’s the future of airshows, and I can’t wait!”
The entire obstacle course required inventing new aerial formats and multi-discipline formations, as many of the tools and protocols did not exist before the project began. The Red Bull Drone Can, made up of 600 drones, was among the most ambitious feats and pushed drone technology into new territory. “It was at a very high level, firstly altitude-wise, and secondly that it had athletes flying into the drone show itself,” says Muyassar Abulkhair, Co-Founder & CEO of Skyvertise. “Bringing skydivers, fireworks and drones all together – maybe one day you’ll see a new sport! This is going to take the industry forward and open eyes to really new collaborations.”
For the athletes, the magic lay as much in the teamwork as in the flight. “Behind each jump is a big team,” Fugen says. “Even if we show some of the behind-the-scenes, interviews, and making-of, people won’t realise how much work, time, preparation, and people are involved.”
“It’s a unique challenge, and a lot of background work to arrive here today,” agrees paramotor pilot Dimitris Kolliakos. “This has never happened before, and I don’t know if something like this could ever happen again in history.”
“It looks like a Mission Impossible movie!” added Román. “Even if you don’t know the sport, you’re going to love this video.” For Aikins, that sense of joy is the whole point. “You can’t help but smile when you see it,” he says. “It’s crazy, it’s ambitious, it’s beautiful – everything we love about flying!”
Filmed across Croatia, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, United States, Bahamas, and the UAE, the Ultimate Aerial Obstacle Course unites generations of aerial talent across the globe into a mind-bending flight line that feels equal parts action movie and art piece.elping define the modern competition era of breaking while staying true to its hip-hop roots.
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