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 ...

Most amateur high altitude balloon payloads descend back to earth with a simple non-steerable parachute and can land hundreds of kilometers from the launch site in inaccessible areas. [Yohan Hadji ...

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!

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 ...

Former army fitness instructor Emile Cilliers has been convicted of trying to murder his wife, Victoria, by tampering with her parachute. She survived a 4,000ft fall. But how can a human being do ...

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 ...

"All the girls adored him", says his first long-term partner of attempted murderer Emile Cilliers Emile Cilliers tried to murder his wife by sabotaging her parachute. To get what he wanted ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...