The gondola from Piantanida's Strato-Jump III attempt is on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. It’s easy to dismiss Nick Piantanida’s story when you first hear ...

Click to open image viewer. Nick Piantanida, a 34-year old New Jersey truck driver, athlete and sky diver, ascended from Joe Foss Airport in Sioux Falls, South Dakota aboard the Strato-Jump III ...

The story of Nick Piantanida, a New Jersey pet store owner and truck driver whose love of parachuting and skydiving puts him on a quest to break the record for the highest recorded parachute jump.

LAKEFIELD, Minn.-Forty-nine years ago, a man fell from the sky and landed in a cornfield in Lakefield. He was rushed to the hospital in Worthington, where he was treated for oxygen deprivation, but ...