Skyhook Stock Footage - The Film Gate

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.
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