So he’s jumpin’ with the wind at his back an’ the dog muzzled. 
One, to get the dog on the plane. After that it’s plane sailing…
This is my youngest dog’s favorite toy, “the bad guy.”
She will do anything I ask her to do that she has been taught in order to play with “the bad guy.”
She will sit as quite as a church mouse for as long as I need in order to play with “the bad guy.”
She will run in a straight line out from me for three hundred yards and then go right or left at my command whistle for as many feet as I need and then return just so she can play with “the bad guy.” She will bring me my slippers without ever once trying to chew them just so she can play with “the bad guy.” She will chew “the bad guy” but nothing else. “The bad guy” has about a four month life expectancy. She could teach pigs to herd sheep just so she could play with “the bad guy.”
Treats?! She don’t need no stinking treats!
You’re such a cat person Simon. Plenty of dogs would do this. It’s like going for a car ride and sticking your head out the car window without the window or the car. Woo Hoo! Let’s do it again. And on the way down, if we could get close to those ducks so I could bite one all the better.
I have to admit ya may be on ta something. But even a cat would land on it’s feet. Schutzhund trained dogs are highly motivated as long as she gets something to do once they land she’ll keep doing it.
I’ve taken my (ex) dog to scary places like the Lynn Canyon Suspension bridge. He crossed it, but it took some talking. He gave me the “Are you sure about this? You haven’t gone crazy and forgot to tell me, have you?” look a few times.
My previous dog, Dorothy Louise, was very clumsy. I had no clue, until we had her, that a dog could even be clumsy. Even regular stairs were a challenge to her. She wouldn’t walk across a swinging suspension bridge that was only 50 feet long at the state park next to deer camp. I only got to see the other side this year with Lucky Isabella Danger who is graceful as all get out. Still though, Dot would have jumped out the plane as long as someone was holding her just to be a part of things. She was a people person.
Have you ever met a Schutzhund trained pup? A whole different world. Sgt Heyhoe who handles Treo who won the Dickin Medal in Febuary said “Everyone will say that he is just a military working dog – yes, he is, but he is also a very good friend of mine. We look after each other.”
The scariest thing my dog Hoover has done is ride in a helicopter. Neither he nor I would have much liked to jump out of it! I thought the helicopter ride was great – glass all around, so you could see everything. I had ear protection on, though, and it was loud. The poor scared pup was actually shaking in the helicopter, but he wasn’t too scared to eat Yummie Chummies the whole time. 
He IS a Labrador, after all. ( As his vet (who lives with a Lab) says, if a Lab won’t eat, just start digging the hole.) Hoover’s big treat for riding the helicopter was that when we landed and got off, he got to work all day long. (We were searching for some missing hikers.) When the helo came back to pick us up, Hoover wasn’t thrilled at hot-loading back onto the helicopter, but he did it, and shook a little less on the way back to base.
Poor dog probably had frostbite when he got down… they are NOT jumping into warm air. 
I think maybe dogs, themselves, are the real treats.
Their “owner”-trusting nature goads humans into dragging another willing mammal through any number of iffy escapades.
A guy in our town whips around in his flatbed pickup, with two older dogs loose on the flatbed!
As dangerous as jumping out of a plane??? Dunno.
Yep. Dogs “treat” their humans very very well.
I, for one, don’t need their pity.
In Virginia you would get arrested fer that and charged with felony animal cruelty, it is OK with human kids though, not that there is such a thing, that comes later.