In 1941, daredevil parachutist George Hopkins settled a bet by jumping out of a plane and landing on top of Devil's Tower.

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A man who discovered the parachute believes a man who executed a similar hijacking was D.B. Cooper Federal Bureau of Investigation A parachute that might have been used by the skyjacker who called ...

The FBI may have just gotten the biggest break yet in the decades-old, unsolved case of D.B. Cooper, the man who hijacked a flight from Portland, OR to Seattle, WA and successfully escaped with ...

Tom Cruise has become a Guinness World Record titleholder for a fiery "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning" stunt. In the stunt, Cruise jumps out of a helicopter and deploys a parachute, then ...

Watching paragliders and skydivers these days is thrilling. They float and control their gossamer sails like giant birds. Imagine the first parachutes and the thrills they evoked in crowds who had ...

What began as a bombing mission to destroy an enemy bridge turned into a story of heroic bravery and incredible odds for young Lt. Owen J. Baggett on March 31, 1943. Fuel tanks burned and oxygen tanks ...