After about six hours of private lessons, I was on board *** Cessna 182 getting ready to take that one big step earlier, my instructor gave me some reassuring words about his first jump. I was scared ...

SALISBURY — Isenberg Elementary School teacher Anthony Johnson couldn’t contain his excitement on Saturday after coming to a landing at the Rowan County Airport. “Oh, I’ll be back. I’ll definitely be ...

Adam Hzab couldn’t get enough of indoor skydiving. Hzab, 15, a student at Trinity High School, decided to spend his winter break in the U.S. rather than visit his parents in Egypt. That gave him a ...

Skydiving is an extremely exciting hobby and of course the focus of the whole sport is to safely “nail” the landing. With modern ram-air (square) parachutes, one can control the landing quite ...

DYER -- Kristen Koscielniak's first jump into the wild blue yonder happened by chance two years ago. Then 20, the Dyer native had gone along on a skydiving lesson only to observe, knowing she couldn't ...