In 1941, daredevil parachutist George Hopkins settled a bet by jumping out of a plane and landing on top of Devil's Tower.

An Army paratrooper makes contact with the drop zone during Leapfest 2017 at the University of Rhode Island in West Kingston, R.I., Aug. 6, 2017. Leapfest is the oldest and largest international ...

The 50-year-old cold case of D.B. Cooper may have seen a new development after an amateur sleuth claims to have found the parachute used by the infamous, yet still unidentified plane hijacker. Gryder, ...

There’s a new world record for the oldest tandem parachute jump. Rut Linnéa Ingegärd Larsson, of Sweden, took the title when she parachuted on May 29 at the age of 103 years and 259 days old, ...

Parachutists hurled themselves from World War II-era planes into the now peaceful Normandy skies where war once raged, kicking off a week of ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. On Sunday ...