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View Full Version : Phrogs in spaaaaaace


Ian Corrigible
14th Apr 2015, 13:26
Well, okay, not in, but certainly involved.

http://i.imgur.com/CuPml1t.jpg (http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/image3.jpg)

Harks back to the USAF's use of a Huskie for the first ever mid-air recovery of a parachute-borne object in 1961 (http://rotorheadsrus.us/documents/524.html), NASA Wallops Station's first helicopter aerial recovery of a rocket-launched payload in 1966 (http://history.nasa.gov/AAchronologies/1969.pdf#page=87), and to the USAF's CH-3 Jolly Green Giant Mid-Air Recovery System (http://www.hill.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=5794&page=1) (MARS) program.

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