Why giant parachutes won’t work on airliners—exploring the physics, safety philosophy, and engineering realities behind ...

Update for 12:20 a.m. EDT on Sept. 7: Boeing's first Starliner spacecraft to carry astronauts landed safely, without its astronaut crew, early Saturday after a relatively smooth undocking, reentry and ...

Issues with parachutes and tape for wiring harnesses will delay the first crewed flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner beyond July. Credit: Boeing/John Grant WASHINGTON — NASA and Boeing will further ...

Supporting critical operations in complex, real world environments has always been core to Skydio’s mission. Many of these critical operations require flying over people and vehicles, yet meeting the ...

A United Arab Emirates C-17 may have delivered an aid drop to waiting Gazans using dangerously small parachutes meant for combat. By Matt White Published Mar 8, 2024 6:32 PM EST Video and flight ...

Swiss investigators have highlighted a prior recommendation that pilots of skydiving aircraft should also wear a parachute in ...

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 ...

Despite a parachute failure, NASA officials say the experimental Ares I-X rocket performed as well or better than computer modeling predicted during its six-minute test flight. Bill Harwood has been ...

A TikTok creator is coming to terms with the attention she and her husband received after a video became viral of her husband bringing his parachute on board a Spirit Airlines flight. The original ...

Parachute maker Irvin Aerospace Inc. is looking for a lift from the recent win of a key military contract and work on NASA’s next generation of spaceships. Following the initial battles in Afghanistan ...

Xpeng AeroHT has some high-flying goals for the future and now it has a way to keep passengers safe if one of them doesn’t work out. It’s just introduced a new multi-parachute rescue system for flying ...