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....
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 Record Jump Attempt in Arizona
The World Team's most astonishing achievement to date is their 400-way jump in Thailand. With 400 skydivers all joining into one free-fall formation, the World Team broke the world record for the largest free-fall...
Women’s Vertical World Record 65-Way
On their sixteenth attempt, the women at Skydive Arizona set a new world record for a vertical formation of sixty-five women.
The jump team consisted of women from 18 countries meeting in Elroy, Arizona. The...
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...
2nd Annual FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championships
Over the weekend, 23 nations met for the second annual FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championships. The competition, which took place October 20th-22nd, was held at the SkyVenture wind tunnel in Laval, Quebec, Canada. The...
Jetman Bails into Ocean
A Swiss adventurer, Yves Rossy, went down into the Atlantic Ocean after hitting turbulent air which caused equipment failure.
While attempting to cross the Strait of Gilbralter from Africa to Europe, the self proclaimed 'Jetman' had to...
Former Power Ranger Breaks Skydiving World Record
For most people, skydiving in and of itself is an incredible feat. For one former star of the children's program, The Power Rangers, jumping wasn't enough. He combined his talent with mixed martial arts...
Vertical Formation Skydiving Record
A new vertical skydiving world record was set this past Friday in Ottawa, Illinois, as 164 divers traveled at speeds up to 240 mph and came together to form a flower formation in the...
Jump from Space a Huge Success!
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One of the few new stories that offers the adrenaline rush not always found in the recent political wrangling is Felix Baumgartner's October 14th Red Bull Stratos...
Top World Records Countdown of 2012
The summer of 2012 was marked by any number of hang gliding, paragliding and skydiving world record records; in fact, some records that have held their ground for decades were shattered. Let's take a...
Felix Who?
Felix Baumgartner was born in Salzburg, Austria on April 20, 1969 and as a young boy he dreamt of flying helicopters. Little did anyone know at that time that he would become one of...
USPA National Collegiate Parachuting Championships
The USPA National Collegiate Parachuting Championships, an event that's famous for attracting and retaining new members to the sport, is quickly approaching with registration at Skydive Arizona in Eloy, Arizona to take place on...
Women’s World Sequential Record Ratified by FAI
56 skydivers from the group EuroChicks now officially hold the Women's World Sequential Record in skydiving. The 3 formation 56 point jump was part of a project called "Women on Wings" or "WOW" and took place over Teuge,...
Skydiver Attempts Guinness World Board Breaking Record
Topping the headlines today in skydiving news, David Frank is going to attempt to break as many pine boards while skydiving from 14,000 ft. The current record holder Travis Donley, won the record in...
GoPro Survives 12,500 Foot Fall
Skydiver Lucas Damn’s helmet-cam made skydiving news when it was knocked out of its casing as he jumped out of the plane in a recent dive. The camera survived the 12,500 foot fall and...
Solar Eclipse Skydiving
August 21, 2017, has found its place in history next to other solar eclipses. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes in front of the Sun temporarily blocking it from view, but what...
USA Sends First Parpalegic to Compete at World Skydiving Competition
When you consider all that's involved in skydiving, from prepping, to jumping, to landing, it most certainly involves a high level of dexterity. But sometimes when you love a sport, you figure out a...
USPA National Skydiving Championship In Progress
America's best of the best in the skydiving world have been gathered in intense competition to determine who is the elite. The USPA National Skydiving Championships have been taking place in Eloy, Arizona since...
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...
