parachute

"Airdropping personnel with parachute systems is impractical because, unfortunately, the enemy's assets can neutralize them very rapidly," said 24-year-old instructor Axel.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft touched down safely by parachute on July 26 at 5:27 a.m.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

On Zinaida’s first parachute jump, one of those too-big men’s boots slid off in the air, taking with it the cloth she’d wrapped around her foot to fill out the boot.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Sam Forstag, a 31-year-old union leader and former smokejumper - a person who parachutes in to fight forest fires - just won the Democratic nomination for Montana's 1st congressional district, defeating a more establishment candidate.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

The astronauts, who set a distance record, landed in the Pacific Ocean under parachutes a few minutes after 8 p.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Dig up the truth about who dropped the parachutes.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

A third Briton is being treated for a suspected case on the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, onto which British Army medics parachuted with fresh supplies to treat him.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

When Valentina was ejected from the ship, she parachuted several hundred miles northeast of the city of Karaganda.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

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

A. For people without a Letterboxd account or even much urge to keep up on movies, parachuting into the Oscars once a year can be disorienting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

In one striking photo, a kneeling US pilot is confronted by a Kuwaiti local, moments after parachuting from his jet.

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 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