Skyhook - Fulton recovery system
Description: Fulton surface-to-air recovery system. STARS. C-130 Airplane used by CIA for personnel extraction. With accelerations of 0 to 130mph in no time, test subjects experience 7 g's. The first live test, with a sheep, failed when the harness twisted and strangled the animal. On subsequent tests other sheep fared better. WWII early Skyhook test footage as seen in the Batman The Dark Knight and at the end of James Bond movie Thunderball.
The system was developed by Robert Edison Fulton Jr., an American inventor and aviator, in the 1940s. The basic concept of the system involved attaching a lifting line to a helicopter, which would then be used to lift a package or a person off the ground and into the air. The package or person would then be flown to a safe location, where they could be lowered to the ground or retrieved by another aircraft.
The system was developed by Robert Edison Fulton Jr., an American inventor and aviator, in the 1940s. The basic concept of the system involved attaching a lifting line to a helicopter, which would then be used to lift a package or a person off the ground and into the air. The package or person would then be flown to a safe location, where they could be lowered to the ground or retrieved by another aircraft.
