Shy, you are on point. Not long after I was hired on at Sikorsky in 1966, the USAF started the Mid Air Retrieval System project to retrieve Firebee Drones with their photos. I recall talking to Johnny Parker, one of the two test pilots doing the initial program out west and he told about an early instance where they had caught the parachute in that hook arrangement out the hack of the CH-3C, but then the load started oscillating and his words were-John, I knew we were in trouble when I could see our load out the front windshield.
Absolutely no connection with what they were about, ( I think ) but that test group from Sikorsky spent a long time out west ( Yuma?? ) and were afterward semi-infamous as the divorce rate among that bunch afterwards was 50%.