Friday morning. America’s online content manufacturers woke up, sucked down some iced coffee, trudged into our Manhattan offices, and sat down at our laptops. Not much going on, not much to write about. A long day ahead. Then, like the sun or a septuagenarian Vermonter breaking through the clouds, there appeared a…
There is simply no reason why this would be an appropriate series of behaviors.
Police say a British army sergeant intentionally sabotaged his wife’s parachute and back-up parachute before a skydiving excursion last month—but not very well: she miraculously survived the fall with only a few dozen broken bones.
Dubya the First is 90 years young today. To ring in the occasion, he went skydiving near the coast of Maine. Ever the daredevil, Old Dubya skydived for his 80th and 85th birthdays, too. His first jump was in 1944, when his plane was shot down over the Pacific in WWII.
A 49-year-old New York man fell to his death after his parachute failed to open while he was skydiving. He landed in a backyard in Washington Township, N.J. around 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, right as the family next door was in the middle of an Easter egg hunt.
Just moments after Jamie Lee jumped from a plane earlier this month, he collided with another skydiver and was knocked unconscious. As he hurtled to the ground from 12,500 feet, two other skydivers noticed he wasn't responding. After stabilizing him, they pulled his chute.
Last week, a skydiver somehow survived a 12,000 foot plunge into a parked van. He was, of course, severely injured and required more than $33,000 worth of emergency transport and surgery, putting him into serious debt. Thankfully, the internet rallied and raised nearly $50,000 for the man and his family to pay for…
This weekend, two planes full of skydivers collided at 12,000 feet, causing one plane to explode and the other to crash land. Amazingly, both pilots and all nine skydivers survived. Last night, NBC News released spectacular footage of the crash taken from the skydivers' helmet-cam videos.
Two small planes collided with one another 12,000 feet in the air Saturday and everyone lived, thanks mostly to the fact that all of the passengers were experienced skydivers with parachutes.
Escape artist Anthony Martin went skydiving while locked and chained inside a coffin. He freed himself while falling and parachuted to safety. I'm sorry, but that is awesome.
Austrian skydiver, BASE jumper, and stuntman Felix Baumgartner has spent more than five years preparing for today's jump in which he will travel by helium balloon to the inner edge of the earth's stratosphere and then fall back down to earth, reaching the speed of sound (690 miles/hour) after only 40 seconds of…
An elderly woman named Laverne says she is fulfilling a decade-long dream of skydiving at the start of a souvenir video recorded at the Parachute Center in Northern California.
Remember our pals Alex Torres the porn actor and his receptionist friend Hope Powell, who did sex during a skydiving trip, posted a video of their shenanigans on the Internet, and caught the attention of the Federal Aviation Administration? The FAA has concluded its investigation of their adventurous mating habits and…
Alex Torres (born: Alexandre Boisvert; aliases: VooDoo Child, Voodoo, Voo Doo, Lex) is a French Canadian skydiver and porn actor currently living in California, who wanted to get the attention of Howard Stern. So he shot a video (NSFW link here), set to Katy Perry's "E.T.", of him having sex with Hope Howell, a…
While some of us spent the weekend tossing urine and testing familial bonds, death-defying stuntman Jeb Corliss was busy sailing through the narrow opening in the side of China's Tianmen Mountain at a rate of 75 miles per hour. In a wingsuit! After jumping out of a helicopter and falling several thousand feet toward…
British special forces are parachuting into Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan with dogs strapped to them, then using the dogs—with cameras attached to their heads—to scout the surrounding area. Yes, you heard that right: Parachuting dogs.
Els Clottemans, a 26 year-old mentally unstable Belgian skydiver, has been sentenced to 30 years for murdering a woman with whom she shared a lover by disabling the woman's parachute. Love triangles in parachute clubs are a dangerous game.
Today we heard the strange story of the gay skydiving instructor accused of sexually harassing a female client. Naturally that got you all talking about the dynamics of sexual harassment and whatnot, but one commenter really zeroed in on it.
Self-described "100% gay" skydiving instructor Donald Zarda was fired from his job after a woman (to whom Zarda was strapped, during a tandem skydive) complained he sexually harassed her, somehow, while skydiving. Thought I had a joke, but no.
Jeb Corliss, daredevil and BASE jumper extraordinaire, finally fulfills his dream of flying down the Matterhorn. It's a thrilling and gorgeous two minute descent.
