A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal ...

It's time to learn how to make a proper parachute, it's one of the easiest projects of all times, cheap as well. So we will drop it from a drone because it's big, normally I will throw it myself, but ...

Parachutes inspired by Japanese paper cutting unfurl automatically and fall more predictably than standard parachutes.

Now, researchers from Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and École Polytechnique in France have come up with a clever twist: ...

Montreal researchers design a low-cost kirigami parachute that is cheap, stable, and scalable, for use in drones, airdrops, ...

A team of engineers from Polytechnique Montréal reported today in Nature a new and unique parachute concept inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami. This simple, robust and low-cost approach has a ...

If you have a fear of heights and find yourself falling out of an airplane, you probably don’t want to look up to find your parachute full of holes. However, if the designer took inspiration from ...

At 35,000 feet and 500 mph, stepping outside a pressurized cabin isn’t survival — it’s instant catastrophe. Here’s why parachutes don’t belong on commercial jets.

There wouldn't even be an El Morocco, or a story, without Canadian businessman Reuben "Ruby" Allender. Lastly, it wasn't so ...

The great beaver airlift was the idea of Elmo Heter, a Fish and Game warden.

Instructor Justin Fuller died in the “total freak accident” in Nashville, while the student he jumped with survived after ...