Skydiving for sport or recreation is among the most popular ways mankind has devised to laugh in the face of our own mortality. As insane as it might sound to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, somewhere in the neighborhood of 350,000 jumpers execute close to 3 million jumps each year in the United […]
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How two Delta Force jumpers collided at 24,000 feet in accelerated free fall and lived
“The sky, even more than the sea, is terribly unforgiving for even the slightest mistake.” (Author Unknown) Let’s get one thing straight: I hate jumping. Don’t get me wrong, the whole concept and execution is sexy enough, but I was simply cursed with a wicked bout of acrophobia. Two or three days prior to an […]
Photo of the day: Jumping bundles in Delta
Favorite thing to do, skydiving. Not many commandos had the balls or tenacity to take on a beast like this massive payload. Back in the day this was the thing Shrek would rather be doing other than war. On this particular day, he got creative with this bundle. Not only was this killer load attached […]