A tandem parachute jump, while relatively safe, is an eye-opening experience. The following is a first-person account of the procedures involved.
On this day in 1797, Frenchman André-Jacque Garnerin became the world's first person to jump with a parachute. He jumped from a hyrdrogen balloon that rose above Parc Monceau in Paris that reached a ...
MONROE COUNTY, Ill. -- A 21-year old pilot working for a skydiving company in southern Illinois made his first parachute jump - but not by choice. "Two skydivers jumped out. They were the last two I ...
An 82nd Airborne Division soldier who was maimed by a roadside bomb in Iraq has made his first parachute jump since his leg was amputated below the knee. Spc. George Perez, 21, of Carteret, N.J., said ...