A wingsuit pilot pushes the limits of human flight with an extremely risky BASE jump through the Twin Pillars. With no room ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Extreme athlete Dean Potter faced the risk of flying off the vertical rock walls he was famous for scaling with little more than a parachute on his back and thin fabric wings. Just ...

A champion wingsuit flyer who featured in a BBC documentary called The Boy Who Can Fly has died after he was critically injured in a jump over the weekend. Liam Byrne, 24, was taking part in a ...

A 24-year-old British wingsuit flyer was killed on Saturday during a base jump in the Swiss Alps, local police said in a statement. The man was later named as Liam Byrne by his parents, who released a ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Two wingsuit fliers who leaped from a cliff in Yosemite National Park were trying to zoom through a notch in a ridgeline and were airborne for about 15 seconds when they slammed into ...

Jeb Corliss has created a highlight reel of his greatest wingsuit stunts, and the results are electrifying. Watch him fly through the air like some literal batman, narrowly avoiding cliffs, the Christ ...

There were jaw-dropping scenes as wingsuit athletes tackled what is billed as the most extreme flying obstacle course humans have ever attempted. The death-defying 15-stage flight line saw ...

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Credit: Molly McMillin Icon Aircraft Co-Founder and former U.S. Air Force Pilot Kirk Hawkins, 58, died following a wingsuit accident in Switzerland. The accident, which occurred on Aug. 19, involved ...