The Rangers training near Marana were practicing a high-risk maneuver known as HALO, short for high altitude, low opening. The technique - often used in covert missions - requires troops to jump at ...

For centuries man’s dream has been to fly, and Franz Reichelt, the “flying tailor” of Paris, was no different from ...

Sgt. 1st Class Riley B. Watts III is the first sergeant for A Company 1-14th Aviation Regiment, the Army’s largest AH-64 ...

Airborne units are typically the first American forces to reach a crisis zone, which means their equipment must prepare them ...

Australian accident investigators have released dramatic images showing a skydiver's parachute entangled on an airplane's tail, leaving him dangling at 15,000 feet MELBOURNE, Australia -- Australian ...

A skydiver was forced to cut himself free after he became tangled on the plane’s tail after his reserve parachute deployed early. As he dangled from the plane’s tail, other skydivers continued to jump ...

A parachutist in Queensland, Australia, survived by cutting the chute free at 15,000 feet when a reserve parachute accidentally deployed, according to a government report. By Amanda Holpuch A skydiver ...

Video released by Australia’s transport safety agency on Thursday shows the harrowing moment when a skydiver’s parachute was caught on the tail of an airplane before a jump in September. According to ...

Japanese officials protested Tuesday that part of a U.S. military parachute was found at a children’s activity center in western Tokyo, days after a paratrooper in a separate incident made an ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. (WFLA) — An 86-year-old woman achieved her life’s mission to reach 1,000 jumps in Florida on Thursday. The woman, Kim Knor, earned the United States Parachute Association Gold Wings ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. (WFLA) — An 86-year-old woman achieved her life’s mission to reach 1,000 parachute jumps in Florida on Thursday. The woman, Kim Knor, earned the United States Parachute Association ...