This week, a crew of elite skydivers dropped out of the Arizona sky hauling a 3,200-square-foot American flag, nearly doubling Libya’s recent benchmark and snatching the world record back for the U.S.
The certified jump is now headed to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Libya held the crown after a massive free-fall flag jump over Benghazi on Oct. 5, 2025. But once retired U.S. Army Ranger Jariko Denman saw the clip online, he fired off a challenge: “Who’s down to break this record?” That question lit the fuse.
Denman teamed up with entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and pulled together a powerhouse roster from Skydive Arizona and Skydive Chicago, including Hall of Famer Rook Nelson. Veterans Sen. Tim Sheehy, Steve Curtis, and Nick Kush joined the mission.
The attempt unfolded Dec. 7 in Eloy, Arizona, one of America’s premier skydiving hubs. The team leapt from a Vietnam-era Huey at roughly 10,000 feet and unfurled a flag so massive it dwarfed Libya’s — 3,200 square feet of red, white, and blue snapping in the wind.
“No one had ever tried to fly a flag this big,” Denman said. The unknowns made it “a pretty scary one.”
The flag weighed 170 pounds, forcing only the most seasoned jumpers to handle it in freefall. Denman said the size and weight created “a lot of extraneous dangers to mitigate,” pushing the team into territory no skydiver had ever charted.
Watch the clip above.
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