It led to Project Excelsior, where the United States Air Force would intentionally send an airman into the stratosphere to ...

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. — In a secure workshop tucked away from the roar of jet engines and the bustle of the flight line, a small team at Robins Air Force Base quietly performs work that can mean ...

Why giant parachutes won’t work on airliners—exploring the physics, safety philosophy, and engineering realities behind ...

A free falling skydiving instructor risked his life to save one of his students after a parachute malfunction in midair, according to investigators in North Florida. Both survived the incident, but it ...

The paratroopers accomplished a series of tactical objectives, including parachuting the battalion’s advance group onto designated landing sites, thwarting enemy reserve approaches, neutralizing ...

Research in parachute dynamics and fluid–structure interaction (FSI) has advanced our understanding of the complex interplay between high-speed airflow and flexible canopy structures. In applications ...

On a clear morning in the early space age, the U.S. Air Force sent a single man to the edge of the atmosphere and told him to step off into the void. The man was Joseph Kittinger, a test pilot whose ...