EXETER, R.I. – U.S. Army Airborne Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians participated in Leapfest 2025, at Exeter, Rhode Island, Aug. 2, 2025. The 767th EOD Company and 722nd EOD Company from the ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. - The annual LEAPFEST International Parachute Competition kicked off in Exeter, Rhode Island, July 31- Aug. 9. The competition attracts paratroopers from across the globe to jump in ...

When Robin Jandle jumps out of airplanes, she does it at low altitude, skipping the free fall and opening her chute right away — a maneuver skydivers call a “hop-and-pop.” When she comes screaming ...

An investigation by The Sacramento Bee found that at least 28 people have died while skydiving at the Parachute Center near Lodi. Skydiving can be a thrilling adventure. But part of that thrill comes ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X MAR LIN – Students used their understanding of physics to make a parachute out of a plastic bag, ...

Panic struck 3,000 feet later, however, when Maffett, 24, found himself wrapped from head to toe in a teammate's parachute during morning competition at the U.S. Parachute Association competition in ...

A skydiver who was killed when her parachute failed to properly deploy during a jump Sunday at the Lodi Parachute Center has been identified. The woman is 62-year-old Nina Mason of Colorado, according ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. (WFLA) — An 86-year-old woman achieved her life’s mission to reach 1,000 parachute jumps in Florida on Thursday. The woman, Kim Knor, earned the United States Parachute Association ...

It was 2015, and the situation in Parachute was hitting bottom. Natural gas prices had collapsed, and the town halfway between Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs on Interstate 70 was staring at a ...