Parachuting

thumb|upright=1.35|Paratroopers deploying their parachutes during an exercise

Parachuting and skydiving are methods of descending from altitude to the surface using the power of gravity, and a parachute.

activity where participants jump from fixed objects and use a parachute to break their fall

variant of skydiving activity involving a specially designed suit which offers control surfaces

French physicist (1757-1837)

Parasailing, also known as parascending, is an activity where individuals are harnessed to a modified parachute canopy that is designed to ascend into the air when towed behind a motor vehicle on land, or a recreational boat over water. Commercial parasailing operations can be found worldwide, with customized powerboats that can accommodate numerous passenger observers and up to three airborne parasailors at a time, wearing specially designed Body Harness w/ Tow Bar and/or seated in a Customized Gondola.

wind tunnel which moves air up in a vertical column

thumb|A Kawasaki C-2 [[military transport aircraft conducting an airdrop demonstration over Miho Air Base, 2018]] thumb|A Boeing C-17 Globemaster III|C-17 Globemaster III airdropping [[humanitarian aid supplies after the 2010 Haiti earthquake]]

multi-core cord originally used for parachutes

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thumb|Fully outfitted smokejumpers boarding a Short C-23 Sherpa aircraft in [[Missoula, Montana, en route to a fire in the Idaho panhandle, July 1994]]

form of ultralight aviation

thumb|200 px|Illustrations from Jalbert's 1966 patent, showing the keels and the airfoil shape.thumb|200 px|The NASA X-38 prototype makes a gentle lakebed landing at the end of a July 1999 test flight at the Dryden Flight Research Center.

Survivor of fall through a thunderstorm cloud (1920–2009)

parachute cut-away system

device that automatically opens a parachute

Parachute that quick opens via an explosion

as in a parachuting drop zone

thumb|350px|Paired skydivers holding hands in freefall Free flying refers to any freefall activity involving back, head down, standing or sit positions as opposed to the traditional belly to earth orientation. It includes freestyle and sky surfing. The discipline is known to have originated when Olav Zipser began experimenting with non-traditional forms of Body flight. Zipser founded the Free Fly Clowns as a two-person competitive team with Mike Vail in 1992. He was joined by Omar Alhegelan (the first FAI Freestyle World Cup & World Champion), Charles Bryan, and Stefania Martinengo in 1994. T

UK air drop of cats into Borneo to combat rats

Cord for automatically opening a parachute

American aircraft hijacker (1942–1974)

Bodyflight, or body flight, is an air sport in which participants use the airflow generated by vertical wind tunnels to maintain flight.

German engineer (1852-1894)

skydiving from near space

military parachute system

discipline of sport parachuting

unofficial Holiday

German skydiver

American aviator

tactical military airlift delivery method