is largely dependent on the design of the parachute. Purely ballistic parachutes solely decelerate the payload's vertical velocity, and those with vents along one side of the canopy propel the chute ...

Designed, developed and manufactured by Airborne Systems, the T-11 is the next generation non-steerable troop parachute system. Airborne Systems is the only qualified source to provide the T-11 ...

To make those sensor packages more reusable, [Hadji Yohan] has been working on a parachute recovery system that automatically returns to a set GPS point. It’s a parafoil with auto-pilot!

On February 20, the company operated a parafoil - a massive, rectangular parachute - more than 19 miles above Earth's surface, twice the previous record, World View chief engineer Sebastian ...

[The Q] is one such experimenter, who built a dual-thrust water rocket that even has a parachute for landing! The testing took place in an area strangely reminiscent of a certain operating system.

A British SAS hero has been killed in a horrific parachuting accident in South Africa. Staff Sergeant Chris Good died while representing Great Britain at the 10th World Canopy Piloting ...

Sgt Good had completed 5,500 jumps after joining the Parachute Regiment aged 17. He was part of Army’s elite Red Devils parachute display team before joining the SAS in 2004 and serving in the ...

A California skydiving instructor who fraudulently trained new instructors at the Lodi Parachute Center in San Joaquin County, including one who died while tandem jumping with an 18-year-old ...

The Bloodhound supersonic car will use a parachute's drag and air resistance to slow it down from 1000 mph. But what design makes the best parachute? Children from Links Primary School in London ...

He was also part of the Red Devils parachute display team and served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. British Skydiving said: ‘Chris was representing Team Great Britain at the 10th World Canopy ...

If investors do own SAVE stock, they may want to get a "parachute" by hedging selling calls and/or buying puts to protect their investment. I continue to rate SAVE stock a sell. Analyst’s ...

Soldiers and veterans who live in Moore County, near Fort Liberty and the home of the 82nd Airborne, are putting their expertise to work to get much needed supplies to rural communities cut off by ...