The impaired aircraft's descent is slowed and passengers have an increased rate of survival. A parafoil (or specifically, a ram-air parachute) resembles a low-aspect-ratio wing. It is constructed ...

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 ...

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!

"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 ...

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 ...

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!

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...