Canadian Family Reaches For The Heights
For most people, the idea of jumping out of a plane with only a parachute between you and death is somewhere in the range from terrifying to horrifying. But for the Lemay family, Michel and his three sons it's...
Highlights from the 2014 USPA National Skydiving Championships of Canopy Piloting
The 2014 USPA National Skydiving Championships of Canopy Piloting was exhilarating, as always. Skydive City, in Zephyrhills, FL, once again hosted the event, which ran May 21-23.
The weather was good overall, but gusty headwinds on the final afternoon, during the zone accuracy...
Everest Skydive 2008
Skydivers from around the world converged on Shyangboche at the foot of Mount Everest for the first annual "Everest Skydive".
World Canopy Piloting Parachuting Championship – 2010
The 3rd FAI World Canopy Piloting Parachuting Championship took place August 7-15, 2020 in Kolomna, Russia.
The competition consists of three disciplines, distance, speed, and accuracy with an overall winner declared based upon the scores in each discipline.
Jason Moledzky of Canada...
World Parachuting Championships – 2012
The conclusion of the 2012 FAI World Parachuting Championships Mondial in Dubai dominated skydiving news this week. The US Team finished second in the competition behind France, with the US taking six gold medals in the competition.
Curt Bartholomew, 26,...
Golden Knights Set New Record
The US Army Golden Knights Parachute Team has set a new world record in the Eight Way Formation at the FAI World Air Games this week. To set the new record they executed 33 formations in 50 seconds. They...
Red Bull X-Alps 2013
The Red Bull X-Alps race is one of the most thrilling and challenging competitions yet devised by man. Most athletes around the globe regard it as THE top adventure out of all of the world's extreme sports. The event...
Charity Flight Breaks Wingsuit Skydiving World Record
Former Navy Seal Andy Stumpf, from San Diego, California, set out to break the world record for absolute distance covered in a wingsuit jump, which includes the distance traveled after the chute has opened. And he did it with...
Combat Control Teams Parachute into Enemy Territory
In skydiving news everyone knows how the Army has Delta Force and the Navy the SEALs who typically ride helicopter or parachute jump into hostile areas to perform missions that often are more fantastic than anything ever seen at...
Perrine Bridge Base Jump Record Broken Again
Danny Weiland has set a new base jump record at Perrine Bridge. Again.
Weiland successfully jumped from the Twin Falls, Idaho bridge, floating into the Snake River Canyon, and making his way back to the top a total of 64...
The Art of Indoor Skydiving with Maja
At the age of 17, Maja Kuczyńska is setting the world of indoor skydiving on fire. In 2015 Maja won the title of Junior World Champion in the Freestyle Category at the first World Skydiving Championships in Prague. Over...
Golden Knights Take World Cup
The US Army Parachute Team, The Golden Knights, took first place in the 8-way formation skydiving competition at the 2011 World Cup of Skydiving.
The competition was held at Saarlouis-Deuren, Germany between August 1-7, 2011. The venue was staged for...
Close Encounter Over The Skies of Houston
Hopefully no one in our Houston audience had a run-in with a Southwest Airlines jet as it was landing at Hobby Airport at 3:47 p.m. on Thursday, September 20th.
That’s when the Boeing 737 jet was caught passing through the...
Black Knights Speed Record
On January 1st, 2016 the "Army West Point Break-Up Six" set a new national collegiate record for speed and won the gold medal in the six-way speed formation at the United States Parachute Association's 2015 National Collegiate Parachuting Championships.
The...
61 Wingsuit Jumpers Set New Skydiving World Record
On October 27th, 1997 John Kallend, then fifty-two years old, made his first jump as a skydiver. On October 17th, 2015 he made his 3,000th. Now, seventy years young, he was the oldest participant in a group that set...
2012 Indoor Skydiving World Championships
Indoor skydiving has become the newest craze for those seeking the thrill of skydiving without the risks. But indoor skydiving is not just for the timid amateur and an upcoming event is making indoor skydiving news. World renowned, iFly...
Jump From Space Aborted
Felix Baumgartner's potential skydiving world record mission delayed due to gusty winds.
After an initial five hour weather delay, plans were made for launch when a brief, calm winds window occurred but there were other problems which caused a delay...
First Time Jumpers Must Be Over 18
Adventurous young people wanting to take their first jump will need to wait until after their 18th birthday, or be content to practice at one of the indoor skydiving locations. In skydiving news, the US Parachute Association announced that the...
USPA National Collegiate Parachuting Championships Conclude with Eight New Records
The 2012 USPA National Collegiate Parachuting Championships came to a finish on December 31st, just in time for New Year’s celebrations. The winners definitely had a lot to celebrate. Of the eighty-seven competitors, eight new records were set.
The 2012...
2009 World Air Games
The United States sent 17 competitors to the World Air Games between June 6th and June 14th 2009. This event is the premier event of for air sports enthusiasts boasting 10 disciplines, 27 competitions, and 3 venues in Italy.
The disciplines included in...
