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A bet, a parachute, and Devil's Tower: A perfect plan until it wasn't
In 1941, daredevil parachutist George Hopkins settled a bet by jumping out of a plane and landing on top of Devil's Tower.
An Army paratrooper makes contact with the drop zone during Leapfest 2017 at the University of Rhode Island in West Kingston, R.I., Aug. 6, 2017. Leapfest is the oldest and largest international ...
The children of Richard McCoy II, a convicted skyjacker, believe their father might be DB Cooper, the mysterious figure behind a famous 1971 skyjacking. This case is the only unsolved skyjacking in US ...
The largest-ever parachute bound for Mars, which will land Europe's ExoMars rover on the surface of the Red Planet in 2021, passed the first in a series of tests in Sweden. The ring-slot parachute is ...
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