A mother watched on as her 15-year-old son leapt to his death from the top of a 14-floor tower block, falsely believing that a homemade parachute would slow his fall. The tragic incident took place in ...

A 15-year-old schoolboy and little-known daredevil from Ukraine died trying a stunt that, he had hoped, would earn him more online followers: jumping from a 14-story building with a homemade parachute ...

It's time to learn how to make a proper parachute, it's one of the easiest projects of all times, cheap as well. So we will drop it from a drone because it's big, normally I will throw it myself, but ...

First, print the parachute template at the bottom of this story or draw a large square on a piece of newspaper. 1. Color your parachute. 2. Cut it out. 3. Tape a piece of string to each inside corner.

Leonardo DaVinci first imagined a parachute in his early writings, which he described as a tent from which a human would 'be able to throw himself down from any great height without suffering any ...

Every day, millions of people commemorate important moments in their lives with pictures. Whether it is a trip to the zoo or a hike with loved ones, photos can help us to preserve beautiful memories.

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: October 22nd, 1797, 220 years ago today … the day Frenchman Andre-Jacques Garnerin cut loose from a balloon 3,000 feet above Paris and drifted down to ...

BLACK DIAMOND, Wash. - A homemade plane that had taken off from Enumclaw ran into technical trouble Monday evening, but thanks to a parachute, the pilot was able to walk away from the ordeal unhurt.