About ten years ago I was approached by someone who wanted to propose an environmentally friendly aerial target, as firing missiles at F4 drones is far from ideal for the environment. Having had some experience of towing parachutes behind Hercules it was thought I might be able to help him with getting his idea off the ground. Not happy with the idea of towing this thing off the runway with the Hercules ramp lowered (no modification to the Herc was a design aim) I suggested the snatch launch as a solution and even found reports of snatch launching Horsa gliders with Dakotas to back the idea up. Sadly nothing came of the idea which was a pity because I still think it would work - High tech companies panic if you back their ideas up with information dated 1945.
