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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 himself D.B. Cooper could potentially help authorities ...

U.S. Marines assigned to Force Reconnaissance Platoon, Maritime Raid Force, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct a high altitude low opening jump during category 3 sustainment training in Louisburg, North Carolina, June 2, 2015. (Cpl. Andre Dakis/Marine ...

Video released by Australia’s transport safety agency on Thursday shows the harrowing moment when a skydiver’s parachute was caught on the tail of an airplane before a jump in September. According to the report from the Australian Transport Safety ...

The parachute is one of many inventions attributed to Leonardo — but, in fact, he did not invent it. In 1968, researchers examining an obscure trove of Renaissance drawings discovered sketches from the studio of a 15th century Italian inventor that were ...

Upon arrival, authorities found the skydiver — identified as Jasmine Black, 48 — dead on the tarmac Getty Skydiver Jasmine Black, 48, of Locust Grove, Ga., was killed on June 21 while attempting to land Her parachute collided with the parachute of ...

September sees the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden. Immortalised by the all-star film adaption of Cornelius Ryan’s seminal tome “A Bridge Too Far”, the operation was an unusually audacious move by British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery ...

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