Jumping out of planes (24 images)

Two members of the United States Military Academy "Black Knights" parachute team, leap from a Chinook Ch-47 belonging to the New York Army National Guard, 12,500 feet above Geneseo, New York, during training on July 30, 2009. UPI/Steven Petibon/U.S. Army

A member of the US Army Parachute Team, the "Golden Knights" salutes as he performs a final jump for the McDonalds Air and Sea Show over the beaches of Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. on May 1, 2005. (UPI Photo/Marino-Cantrell)

Members of the US Army Parachute Team, Golden Knights, exit the jump plane above Ft. Lauderdale, Florida during the McDonald's Air and Sea Show on May 7, 2006. (UPI Photo/Joe Marino-Bill Cantrell)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Cory Boatwright videotapes U.S. Soldiers assigned to 82nd Airborne Division as they parachute from a C-17 Golbemaster III aircraft during a joint forcible entry exercise (JFEX) in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on June 17, 2008. (UPI Photo/Rasheen A. Douglas/U.S. Air Force)