Engineers created a laser-cut Mylar disc that drops with surprising precision, promising safer, cheaper parachute system for small payloads.

In February 1942, the men of the newly formed British 2nd Parachute Battalion went into action for the first time. In one of ...

There, he set out his stall (as it were) by reducing the speed and applying the right rudder to send the plane into, first, a ...

A 60-year-old skydiver from Mile-Hi Skydiving died in Colorado during an incident in which eyewitnesses said the man’s parachute seemed to be not fully opened ...