Scientists from NASA are conducting a series of research flights to advance the supersonic parachutes. The plan is to make these parachutes more reliable and safer with advanced sensors. These ...

Boeing has a lot to prove before Starliner can make its second attempt to reach the ISS. One of the tests it has recently conducted focused on parachute reliability — in particular, the company wanted ...

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 ...

The first piloted launch of Boeing's oft-delayed Starliner crew capsule is slipping to next March at the earliest because of ongoing work to test and replace the capsule's parachute system and to ...

Boeing has successfully tested the parachute system of its Starliner spacecraft under extreme conditions, the aerospace giant revealed on Monday, June 29. Like SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, the ...

Boeing-led team to develop guided two-stage system that will compensate for winds Safer Mars landings are in prospect using a two-stage guided parachute to be developed and tested for NASA by a Boeing ...

An airframe parachute has been used "in anger" for the first time to land a Cirrus SR22 light aircraft successfully - an event the manufacturer calls a milestone in general aviation safety. There have ...

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 ...

Spirit in the sky-dive. A Spirit Airlines passenger sparked guffaws galore after he was spotted wearing a parachute aboard a flight — with many viewers joking that it was a smart move given the ...

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 ...