ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) - Jessica Edgeington became obsessed with skydiving when her parents bought her a jump for her 18th birthday. Now 32, the Virginia resident has made more than 6,000 jumps and is ...

Skydive Spaceland in Rosharon is hosting this weekend the US Parachute Association’s National Skydiving Championships of Canopy Piloting, where jumpers “swoop” at speeds starting at 75 mph towards ...

Canopy piloting tries to add more derring-do to the extreme sport of jumping out of planes. The airplane had just reached 4,000 feet when Jonathan Tagle leaped. He plummeted, belly-to-the-ground, ...

The World Games 2021 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, will include two FAI air sports, it was announced on Sunday. Drone racing and canopy piloting – a spectacular form of skydiving that combines ...

HOKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- It's been nearly 30 years since Greg Windmiller first learned to fly in the sky. The veteran spent a total of 26 years in the Army with 15 of those years as a Golden Knight ...

FORT BRAGG, NC-The U.S. Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights pulled off a CPC sweep during the 2008 Swoop Week Championship event in Longmont Colorado. Team members Sergeant Major Michael Eitniear, ...

The mere thrill of jumping out of a plane wasn’t enough for Denver-based skydiver Nick Batsch, who took up the sport of canopy piloting (where the action is closer to the ground) ten years ago. Batsch ...

38,000: Number of sky divers worldwide who are members of the United States Parachute Association (USPA). 30,000: Number of U.S. sky divers registered with the USPA. 78: How many canopy pilots, a ...

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