U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 143rd Infantry Regiment Airborne, Texas Army National Guard, conduct a ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a new documentary video about static line made by US paratroopers from Boeing C-17. Static line is a parachuting method used to open parachutes automatically, ...

Sgt. 1st Class Eric Fair poses for a photo as paratroopers prepare to load an AC-130 for a training static line jump with T-11 parachutes. (Photo courtesy of Eric Fair) Static line parachutes ...

A static-line jump is when a select number of paratroopers, eight to 102 depending on the type of aircraft, are tethered to a static-line cable inside the aircraft.

A video captured an Army jumpmaster acting as the flight ‘safety’ grabbing a soldier whose static line had wrapped around his neck.

The plunge itself is known as a "static line" jump. An individual line that each of the paratroopers clips to the aircraft before the jump carefully opens the chute for them.

Artillery paratroopers conducted a heavy-drop and static-line airborne operation onto a Fort Bragg Drop Zone to conduct live-fire operations.

The type of jump used on D-Day is called the ‘static line’ jump, and it’s the same type of jump Brenizer performed with the Round Canopy Parachute Team on June 5.

Mobile paratrooper veteran to make his 50th static line jump in Normandy for 80th D-Day Anniversary (Photo courtesy of Robert Brenizer) (Photo courtesy of Robert Brenizer) ...

The teams were conducting a static-line jump out of an MC-130H Combat Talon II and had already completed a few jumps earlier in the training.

According to a news release from the division, Jenks was performing a static-line jump from a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter on Monday when the accident occurred.

The 21-year-old soldier was identified as Spc. Abigail Jenks of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. Jenks, of Gansevoort, reportedly died while participating in a static-line jump from a ...