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A North Texas skydiving company is being called racist for rules posted on its website that bar anyone in the U.S. illegally from jumping out of one of the company’s planes. But the company’s owner has doubled down on its stance. Skydive Tandem Greenville, also known as Dallas Skydive Lodge, has a series of “requirements” posted on the company’s website — sort of a “know-before-you-go” set of disclaimers for tandem skydivers. They detail the maximum weight per skydiver and the company’s minimum age requirements.

A Pennsylvania woman has celebrated her 94th birthday by going skydiving

Two years ago, George Bush Sr. made a promise that he aimed to keep when he turned 90 years old on Thursday. The 41st president plans to celebrate the milestone by going skydiving one last time, his granddaughter and TODAY contributor Jenna Bush Hager announced on TODAY Thursday.

For the first time ever, a meteor has been captured on camera falling through the sky after it has finished burning. And that’s not all: the baseball-sized space rock nearly slammed into the man behind the camera.

It sounds like a remarkable story, almost unbelievable: Anders Helstrup went skydiving nearly two years ago near Hedmark, Norway and while he didn’t realize it at the time, when he reviewed the footage taken by two cameras fixed to his helmet during the dive, he saw a rock plummet past him. He took it to experts and they realized he had captured a meteorite falling during its “dark flight” — when it has been slowed by atmospheric braking, and has cooled and is no longer luminous. Norwegian astrophysicist Pål Brekke confirmed to Universe Today that the story is true. “I...

An Austrian daredevil plans to leap from nearly 23 miles above the Earth on Oct. 8 in a supersonic plunge that, if successful, will be the world's highest-ever skydive. If all goes according to plan, a helium-filled balloon will lift off from Roswell, N.M., on Oct. 8 and carry Felix Baumgartner's custom-built capsule to an altitude of 120,000 feet (36,576 meters). The daredevil will then step out of the capsule into the void, breaking a skydiving record that has stood for 52 years.

PITTSFIELD, Maine (AP) - A Maine man who learned how to use a parachute as a Navy pilot during World War II has finally made his first jump _ at age 90. Lester Slate of Exeter jumped out of a plane for the first time on Sunday at Pittsfield Airport and was guided to the ground by a tandem jumper, and accompanied by another skydiver trailing a U.S. flag. The jump was a 90th birthday present to himself. More than 50 family and friends watched.

Gary Connery: stuntman completes 2400ft skydive without a parachute A stuntman, Gary Connery, has become the first man to leap 2400 feet and safely land without using a parachute. The 42-year-old daredevil plunged from a helicopter in a death-defying feat before landing in an area containing 18,600 cardboard boxes. The father-of-two, a veteran of 880 sky dives, 450 base jumps and dozens of film and television roles, jumped this afternoon above Ridge Wood, Bucks to become the first person to jump from such a height and live without deploying a parachute. The entire flight of nearly a mile took less...

A daredevil will soon attempt to break the world record for the highest skydive – set 50 years ago today – and be the first human to freefall faster than the speed of sound, and from near the edge of space.

A privately funded team will attempt this year to break a 50-year-old record for the highest-altitude parachute jump, floating a balloon well into the stratosphere before its pilot leaps out for a supersonic free fall. The team behind the Red Bull Stratos mission announced details of the attempt here Friday morning in a media briefing. If all goes as planned, a towering helium balloon will loft Austrian-born skydiver and BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner, 40, roughly 37 kilometers into the air before he begins his descent. (BASE stands for "buildings, antennas, spans, Earth"—the places and structures from which a BASE parachutist...

Two years ago, Fay Andrews was in so much pain from West Nile virus that she wanted to die. On Saturday, a recovered Andrews celebrated her 70th birthday by jumping from a plane, along with her grandson, grandnephews, grandniece and a friend. She turns 70 today. Thirty family members and friends gathered at the Ogden-Hinckley Airport to watch the group jump from a Cessna 208. All the jumpers were accompanied by instructors for the descent. Cody Egan, 21, said when his grandmother telephoned him, he was thinking he would be invited to a relaxing cruise. "I'm more afraid of this...

He learned to steer a chute – fast. Hanging from a parachute thousands of feet above the ground, Daniel Pharr needed to find a way to land safely. He was on his first sky-diving jump, and he and his instructor were strapped together on the same parachute. But shortly after they leaped from the airplane at 13,500 feet, the instructor wasn't responding to Pharr's questions. George “Chip” Steele had had a medical emergency. Pharr was on his own. Pharr said he didn't panic. It would do him no good, he thought. Instead, he reached above his head for the toggles...

A former French Army paratrooper is in the process of planning a le Grand Saut or "Super Jump" in an attempt at breaking several parachute records... as well as the sound barrier. Michel Fournier, 63, is hoping to break records for the highest ever parachute jump, the longest sky dive, and the highest altitude achieved by a person in a balloon during his attempt to be the first person to break the sound barrier in free-fall, according to the UK Daily Mail. (The current record holder, Air Force Capt. Joseph Kittinger, "only" reached 614 mph -- about Mach .90 --...

Former President Bush is about to skydive (for the second time today) on his 80th birthday.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho - A man who died when his parachute failed to deploy as he jumped from the Perrine Bridge over the Snake River Canyon was a skydiving instructor from Pennsylvania who logged thousands of skydives and more than 100 BASE jumps, his friend and business associate said. Jason Corcoran, 30, of Butler County, Pa., launched from the Twin Falls-area bridge, which is 486 feet above the river, and then tried a back flip. The parachute did not deploy and he hit the water at about 90 mph late Thursday afternoon, Twin Falls County sheriff"s Sgt. Don Neuman said....

Skydiver Hits Bridge in Colorado, Dies Mon Oct 6, 1:03 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! CANON CITY, Colo. - A skydiver attempting a stunt was killed Sunday when he hit a 1,000-foot-high bridge and fell onto the rocks below, police said. Dwain Weston, 30, died following the inaugural Go Fast Games, in which he and other parachutists had jumped off the 1,053-foot-high Royal Gorge Bridge, said Heather Hill, a vice president of event sponsor Go Fast Sports & Beverage Co. Weston, of Australia, had jumped from an airplane with another parachutist. They were supposed to...

Europe - AP Austrian Flies Across English Channel Thu Jul 31, 4:11 PM ET CALAIS, France - An Austrian specializing in daring stunt jumps donned a carbon fiber wing and flew across the English Channel on Thursday after being dropped from a plane. Felix Baumgartner made the 34-kilometer (21-mile) trip in 14 minutes, according to Sarah Christofi, his spokeswoman. "It's very cold up there," the 34-year-old Austrian said upon landing at Cap Blanc-Nez, near the Channel port of Calais. "I still can feel nothing." Baumgartner, fitted out with a parachute, was lofted from an airplane some 9,144 meters (30,000 feet)...

An Austrian with a carbon wing strapped to his back will attempt to be the first man to fly across the English Channel unaided. Felix Baumgartner plans to leap from a plane 30,000 feet (9,000 metres) above Dover and glide over the 22 miles (35 kilometres) of water to France. At times he will reach speeds of 224mph (360kph) in temperatures as low as -68C. He hopes to land by parachute in Cap Blanc-Nez near Calais, after seven minutes in the air. The 34-year-old former mechanic and motor cross driver said he was confident he would become the first person...

A skydiving instructor who died in July while attempting to land on a pond at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa was seriously impaired by smoking marijuana within two hours of his death, according to a toxicology report released Wednesday. The report was made public an at inquest conducted by LaSalle County Coroner Jody Bernard into the death of Ronald Passmore Jr., 33, who died July 14 when he slammed chest first into the pond at the jump zone and died of a severed aorta. A coroner's jury declared the death accidental. Passmore's death was the sixth in a year at Skydive...