When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Dwain Weston - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwain_Weston

    Dwain Weston (31 January 1973 – 5 October 2003) was an Australian skydiver, BASE jumper, wingsuiter and software developer. On 5 October 2003, at the end of the inaugural Go Fast Games, Weston died while attempting to fly over the Royal Gorge Bridge near Cañon City, Colorado, United States.

  3. Bodyflight - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyflight

    In the windtunnel sport parachuting and skydiving, bodyflight is performed by applying air flow on certain parts of a body, to control the body any muscular forces can be used. [ 1 ] As a tool for learning to control the body flight, there is a vertical wind tunnel , which makes it possible to fly in the air, simulating free fall due to the ...

  4. 1967 Lake Erie skydiving disaster - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Lake_Erie_skydiving...

    Around 30 parachutists arrived at Ortner Airport in Wakeman, Ohio, on August 27, 1967, to skydive together from a privately owned North American B-25 Mitchell bomber (registration N3443G [8]). [9] After a previous paid performance at an air show, the bomber's owner, Bob Karns, had offered a free jump out of gratitude to the skydiving community ...

  5. Sonderkommando photographs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando_photographs

    The bodies in the foreground are waiting to be thrown into the fire. Another picture shows one of the places in the forest where people undress before 'showering'—as they were told—and then go to the gas-chambers. Send film roll as fast as you can. Send the enclosed photos to Tell—we think enlargements of the photos can be sent further. [26]

  6. State Sen. Michael Moore tries skydiving for a cause: 'I am ...

    www.aol.com/state-sen-michael-moore-tries...

    For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us

  7. 100 veteran women gather for photo shoot at Paraclete XP ...

    www.aol.com/100-veteran-women-gather-photo...

    Attendees of the 100 Women Veterans Photo Shoot gather for a group photo on Saturday, June 8, 2024. Women veterans celebrated their service Saturday at Paraclete XP Indoor Skydiving, as ...

  8. Students, Olympic skaters, families and more. A tribute to ...

    www.aol.com/news/students-olympic-skaters...

    Married figure skating champions. A student returning to college after attending a funeral. A lawyer heading home from a work trip on her birthday. Members of a steamfitters union.

  9. Grant Morton - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Morton

    An article in Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine (dated February 29 and March 1, 2012) [9] makes a claim that U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry was the first to jump from a powered airplane on March 1, 1912 (with Anthony Jannus as his pilot) and that Morton did so on April 28, 1912, which would give priority to Berry, providing it was Morton's first airplane jump and not his second or third.