US Airborne: The hours before the jump

Defense and Aviation
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US airborne units · Photography

Paratroopers waiting beside a transport aircraft

The mission

Capture what happens before the doors open: the waiting, the checks and the people who make a jump possible.

Paratrooper on a line against the sky

Aircraft overhead with a jumper on a line

Two paratroopers in silhouette at the open door of an aircraft

What we made

A stills series on the flight line and in the air.

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