📚 Parachuting

Descent by canopy: the jump, the sport, and the military use that made it ordinary.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject parachuting in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	How do parachutes work?	Jennifer Boothroyd	2012	8
	Parachuting	Dan Poynter	1978	5
	Parachuting for sport	Jim Greenwood	1962	4
	The world of silent flight	Richard A. Wolters	1979	4
	The Sky People	Peter Hearn	1990	4
	Parachuting I-E Course	Dan Poynter	1978	3
	Groundrush	Simon Jakeman	1992	3
	The parachute	Jim Greenwood	1964	2
	The space age sport: skydiving	Ray Darby	1964	2
	The space age sport: skydiving	Ray Darby	1964	2
	Sport parachuting; handbook	Russell A. Gunby	1972	2
	The big umbrella	John Lucas	1973	2
	Parachuting	Madden Travis Works	1975	2
	Sport parachuting	Charles Shea-Simonds	1975	2
	Index to parachuting, 1900-1975	Michael Horan	1977	2
	Parachuting	Pat Works	1979	2
	The parachutists	Edward Klein - undifferentiated	1981	2
	Parachute games	Todd Strong	1996	2
	Voar	João Ricardo Penteado	2001	2
	Le Meduse del cielo	Prospero Freri	1939	1
	Rakkasan-dokuhon	Shomu Nobori	1942	1
	Rakkasan	Sueto Nonaka	1943	1
	The long	Joseph W. Kittinger	1961	1
	The silken angels	Martin Caidin	1964	1
	Parachutes: how they work	Eloise Paananen	1972	1
	Parachutes: how they work	Eloise Paananen	1972	1
	Hurra, wir springen	Walter Gericke	1974	1
	Podgotovka parashi͡u︡tista	A. S. Gusʹkov	1976	1
	Parașuta	Ștefan Șoverth	1976	1
	Bratʹi︠a︡ Doroniny	F. A. Lushnikov	1977	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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