FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- It's not a bird. It's not a plane. For Fayetteville's Tony Hardin, though, it's his preferred way of flying. The powered parachute appears to most to be some sort of bicycle ...

Scientists from NASA are conducting a series of research flights to advance the supersonic parachutes. The plan is to make these parachutes more reliable and safer with advanced sensors. These ...

Two people were killed Sunday night when a small aircraft crashed in Jessamine County, according to Jessamine County Sheriff Kevin Grimes. The crash happened in the area of Ashgrove Road, according to ...

A skydiver broke free and ultimately survived after his reserve parachute accidentally deployed and got stuck on the tail of an airplane as it was soaring through the sky. The Australian Transport ...

At first glance, it looks like a fluffy cloud floating down from the sky. Perhaps a dove, or a white balloon bouncing in the breeze. But the Seattle Mariners’ latest home field promotion is none of ...

Now this is how you bail on a stunt: when the whole point of the stunt is to bail in the most epic way possible. The motorcyclist in the video flies his motorbike off a ramp, jumps off the bike while ...

RIO LINDA, Calif. -- A man dressed as Santa Claus on a powered parachute had to be rescued after getting tangled in power lines near Sacramento, California on Sunday morning. The Federal Aviation ...

The idea of floating safely back to Earth is older than flight itself. Ancient Chinese texts described devices resembling primitive parachutes more than two millennia ago. Centuries later, Leonardo da ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (FOX 56) — The community is remembering the victims of a powered parachute crash that happened Sunday evening.

The Infamous U-2 was not the only aircraft shot out of the Soviet skies that day in May 1960, there was a second parachute floating to earth other than that of Francis Gary Powers. It was May 1, 1960, ...