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CIA: Flying Skyhook Wasn't Just For James Bond, It Actually Rescued Agents

Posted by samzenpus on from the you're-outta-here dept.

coondoggie writes "This had to be one hell of a ride. The CIA today said it added a pretty cool item to its museum archives — the instruction card for officers being plucked off the ground by a contraption that would allow a person to be snatched off the ground by a flying aircraft without the plane actually landing."

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  1. Re:The Unit... by j-pimp · · Score: 5, Informative

    They showed this extraction method on The Unit. Season 2, episode 1 "Change of Station".

    Also, Morgan Freeman used it to get Batman out of China without taking the bat boots off for the TSA.

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    --- Justin Dearing http://www.justaprogrammer.net/ We're just programmers.
  2. aka Fulton Recovery System by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Many more details here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system