parachute

As military aircraft staged flyovers, members of the Army and Navy parachute teams jumped with giant U.S. flags over the mall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

One proxy firm, Institutional Shareholder Services, even labeled Zaslav’s package a “golden parachute proposal.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Original plans by US envoy Bill White involved fighter jet flyovers and a parachute drop for the independence anniversary event in the Cinquantenaire Park, in the heart of the city's European district.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Also among delegates for the parachute engineering conference was Blue Origin - known for the all-female spaceflight in April 2025 during which the factory's fabrics were used.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Alex’s fear disappeared, as suddenly and completely as if it had fallen out of the plane without a parachute.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Former Montana smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes into rural terrain to contain wildfires — Sam Forstag is also hoping to go to D.C. as the state’s first Democratic member of Congress in 30 years.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

Ellis herself—portrayed by the much-honored English actress Sharon D. Clarke—is a specialist of sorts, a crack investigator who parachutes into under-resourced locales to help with cases deemed otherwise unsolvable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

All three landed under good parachutes but two people collided with each other during the freefall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

With the capsule descending beneath huge parachutes to gently splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, the astronauts were back on Earth.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

When the parachutes finally opened, the men floated toward the ground, still unable to see anything around them.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

He was parachuted into parliament in a by-election last month to take his place on the green benches and, weeks later, at the top of the greasy pole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Walker, a 65-year-old London consultant, said she had yet to "make an impression" of the former mayor of Greater Manchester, who was parachuted into the top office by the Labour Party.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

Base jumpers parachuted from its heights, and a performance artist recorded himself teetering along a 1-inch-wide slackline strung between two of the properties’ 40-story towers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

British army medics parachuted onto another remote British Overseas Territory, the south Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, to help a British resident with suspected hantavirus who disembarked there on 14 April.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

In July 1945, toward the end of World War II, American soldiers parachuted into North Vietnam with orders to find and to help Ho Chi Minh.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

In 2026, it’s more like parachuting onto the roof.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

Approach this as a collaborative effort, not as a sister parachuting into his personal and financial life all guns blazing.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

Sereni, who recited cantos from Dante in Italian to calm his nerves, was offered a British alias for the parachuting mission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

Rhodes joined the Army after high school and served for three years before being honorably discharged after a parachuting accident in 1986.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2025

Tatyana was a secretary, but what she really enjoyed was parachuting, a sport she had taken up in her teens.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson