Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Fixed wing extraction Message-ID: <1991Feb27.022117.22850@cbnews.att.com> Date: 27 Feb 91 02:21:17 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers Lines: 24 Approved: military@att.att.com From: David Lesher {Mr. Moderator, use :-]'s as you see fit} >The "non-stop" pickup method being discussed is the "Fulton Recovery System". >A balloon lifts a cable into the air, and the cable is snagged by a v-shaped >device on the front of an MC-130 Combat Talon. >All this is best-of-my-knowledge, and unclassified material. Actually, you need a double-naught clearance to use this method. If you need to brush up on the background material, go to the classified footage archiver in your neighborhood and requisition: Thunderball for specific details. Tell them Mr. Bond sent you. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu & no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com