Parachutes were an integral part of the Allied invasion on D-Day. However, 1944's Operation Market Garden, the largest airborne operation in history up to that time, did not succeed. Twenty thousand ...

Floyd Smith probably understood the importance of a controlled fall better than any pilot of his time. Before Smith was flying in the skies above Los Angeles, he was a high-flying trapeze daredevil in ...

Dayton-area World War II veteran Jim “Pee Wee” Martin will return to the site of an historic battlefield this month when he parachutes into the Netherlands, through the help of Air Force Research ...

Modern sport parachutes are designed like small wings that allow precise steering and soft landings. Yet most military paratroopers still jump using the older round canopy design that offers very ...