Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate employee Kevin Price (left) and World War II veteran Jim ‘Pee Wee’ Martin are pictured in front of the C-47 aircraft displayed at the ...

One hundred years ago, an Army daredevil completed the first parachute jump from a plane. But the history of the chute goes all the way back to Leonardo da Vinci, and all the way up to today's ...

One of the members of Major E.L. Hoffman’s parachute research team makes a test jump at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio, in May 1919. (National Museum of the United States Air Force) Floyd Smith probably ...

Just A few years after the Wright brothers invented the Airplane in 1903, Men and women around the United States were leaping from planes including one Massachusetts man who jumped from a plane into ...

Dayton-area World War II veteran Jim “Pee Wee” Martin will return to the site of an historic battlefield this month when he parachutes into the Netherlands, through the help of Air Force Research ...