Shooting some hoops: 1,000 basketballs dropped from 1,000 feet from C-17
After almost 15 years of trick-shot videos, the team at comedy and sport YouTube channel Dude Perfect have attempted their "biggest stunt ever" - from the back of a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster.
In the video above, the YouTubers entertained their more than 60 million subscribers by dropping 1,000 basketballs from the aircraft to see if they could make a hoop.
Their goal was for at least one of the 1,000 basketballs to drop into one of the 50 hoops that had been spread on the ground, breaking the world record for the world's highest basketball shot.
A T-38C Talon from Vance Air Force Base flew alongside the C-17 Globemaster III from Altus Air Force Base that was being refuelled by an Altus KC-135 Stratotanker.
Before refuelling, the Altus Air Force Base's Mighty 97th completed the series of "precision airdrops" for the Dude Perfect video.
They released two rounds of 500 basketballs from the back of the C-17 from 1,000 feet - 305 metres.
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Unfortunately for the Dudes, who have wowed audiences with their successful trick shots, they were unable to land a basket on this occasion.
However, one of their members in response to another ruling this a shot they could not make, vowed "we are not done here".
Tyler 'The Beard' Toney added: "This is just the beginning... in fact, we will look back on this day and think to ourselves why did we only bring that many basketball goals, we should have brought way more.
"We will look back on this day and think we should have just dropped way more balls from the sky."
He concluded his emphatic speech by saying "this shot is not done" and to look out in the future.
Following their world-record attempt, the YouTubers competed in a round of giant darts, the "world's most difficult mini-golf course", and a "don't spill the water" challenge while the C-17 crew completed some low-level tactical manoeuvres.
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