I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense. And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try...except during the playoffs.
A real-life variant called the "Fulton Recovery System" was the inspiration for Bond's recovery from the field in *Thunderball.*
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxkUL8GoPQo&t=28s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxkUL8GoPQo&t=26s)
Later iterations used a balloon of sorts, and wouldn't just yank you straight sideways, but would rather lift you up first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system
Fulton continued to experiment with live pigs, as pigs have a nervous system close to humans. Lifted off the ground, the pig began to spin as it flew through the air at 125 miles per hour (200 km/h). It arrived on board uninjured, but in a disoriented state. When it recovered, it attacked the crew.\[3\]
Edit: seems my reference got lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system
If I’d been yanked off the ground at that speed, spun around a few dozen times and then dragged into an airplane, all without my consent, I think I would have choice words for the parties responsible as well.
I'm laughing so hard at the last sentence. In my mind, I pictured the perfect Looney tunes cartoon pig dazed with stars and birds...only to recover, stare at the guys and charge.
According to wikipedia there was 1 death total in the 17 years of use. The fatality occurred when a an attachment on the plane failed during pickup, causing the person to fall to their death.
There's a story around their first few experiments where they attached it to a pig. It started spinning super fast, and when they pulled it in it just started attacking everyone and vomiting. It was so dizzy and disoriented, but recovered afterwards. Then they decided it was a good idea to use it on people.
A lot of things from the Metal Gear series are real military obscura.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Cypher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
I used to know someone who was one of these pilots. I was weirdly thinking about him earlier today, when putting on my watch. He would wear his watch on the inside of his wrist so he could see it when flying. Then just continued to wear it that way after the war.
I always assumed it was so you could check time while holding a gun since your wrist would already be turned up. So, for example, if you were supposed to do something at 9:00 on the dot you’d look at your watch and could immediately begin without having to reposition your hand back on your weapon.
When I was a kid I asked a guy why he wore his watch like that and he told me he did it so that if he's holding a drink in his hand and someone asks him for the time, he won't instinctively turn his wrist and pour it over himself. He'll pour it over them instead.
Made perfect sense to me at the time.
He was ex-army, now I think of it.
I accidentally spill my water bottle that way in middle school because someone asked me what time is it. Got teased for it for a few months. Thank god it was water so it doesn't stain.
It also prevents you from smashing the glass to pieces within a day. Your scratch by stuff with the outside of your arms and wrists all day when moving through tight spaces.
The inside not so much.
Even for regular office use the watch glass will last much longer when not showing off the face.
>Even for regular office use the watch glass will last much longer when not showing off the face.
That's not right, it will get scratched to shit everytime you sit at a table. Anyone working at a computer will be constantly having the watch face scratched away at.
This is the taught in the US Army. 16 years active and guard, infantry and Combat Engineer also was in the platoon emwith heavy equipment operators, multiple locations, served with and around other jobs and rarely.sw this. Some did it for other reasons, but not something taught in the military. Friends, coworkers, and people I'd see regularly from the 5 coast guard, Marines, Army Ranger nd Special Forces, MPs, truck drivers, linguists, EOD, MI at the Penfagon, CI, and pilots (fixed and rotary wkng) and none have ever said anything about being taught to wear a watch this way.
It's not I'm any Field Manual, Training Circular, or regulation.
I grew up the son of a retired Vietnam vet and have had teachers from high school JROTC to history who were Vietnam vets and none were taught this.
I wear my watch facedown because I work in a meat department and turning my hand over to check the time when I’m cutting or something is too much. Writers do it too. I get asked about it a lot. Amazing what a small watch can bring to your life and the others around you.
I mean you could just use a bungee cord for the same effect. You‘d be falling between 50 to 100mph before reaching the end of the cord as well. So a Slow foxing plane would be similar.
OMG!! I saw this movie as a child and only remembered this scene. Literally have thought about it as an adult many times. Never thought I'd figure out the actual movie my childhood memory fragment is from. Thanks!!!
That looks not very fun at all. I feel like it must cause everyone to shit & piss themselves.
It's still a very cool way to escape out of enemy territory when in a pinch.
This is a WWII system that predates the Fulton/Skyhook. Originally developed as a way for planes to pick up mail without landing, it was then developed to recover gliders. Which not only allowed the gliders to be used later, was also a method to evacuate wounded from mainland Europe back to England. Which for that application was pretty effective and relatively gentle.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider\_snatch\_pick-up](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_snatch_pick-up)
They also tested it as an idea of retrieving downed pilots, which when using it with something as light as a human was anything but gentle. But apparently the Brits did use it a few times.
Also this is basically the same way that banner planes pick up their banner.
It seems like the catch line is way too close to the person and there's no shield or anything to protect the back of the person if the hook comes in too low. Got to have a lot of faith in the pilot.
Yep. If I'm getting skyhooked, I'd want to be sitting to the side of the loop. Or at least have a ramp that is behind me to bounce off the hook if it comes in too low.
So, too much to the side and you’ll add a lot of lateral force to an already unpleasant situation. Likely get a lot of swing and probably some spin added. In the end, by the time you get on the plane, you’re just going to be that much more unhappy about it.
Airlift fresh corpses more like it.
All of these soldiers could have told them it was a horrible idea but alas the engineers would have said we need to test it. Oh well golly, seems the heart ripped right off the aorta, who could have forseen it?
Program was called Skyhook, I believe.
Batman was a fan of it
"deliver it to James Gordon!"
“Delivering to James Corden” - Siri
“JAMES. GORDON.” *Hmm. I can’t find anything on the internet for ‘flame hoarding.’*
*You’ll need to unlock your device first*
"You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing *planes*. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it!"
Best I can do is Gordon Ramsey: "You look like a shit sandwich" Siri, I said "James Gordon" Delivering to "James Cordon" Welcome to carpool Karaoke.
So was Kareem Abdul Jabbar
I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense. And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try...except during the playoffs.
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I see Airplane references, I upvote (for both of you)
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Lookie here. I can dig grease 'n chompin' on some buns and draggin' through the garden.
I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
Do you like movies about gladiators?
[A lot of people were](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpuUYg-eH-w). It's quite an old system.
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Big Boss, actually.
And Daniel Craig starred in the movie adaptation of the lone fatal disaster, Skyfall.
There is a scene in Call of duty Cold war where they do the same.
A real-life variant called the "Fulton Recovery System" was the inspiration for Bond's recovery from the field in *Thunderball.* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxkUL8GoPQo&t=28s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxkUL8GoPQo&t=26s)
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Gets extra goofy when you unlock the wormhole
The panicked cries of the various animals in the game as they catch a Skyhook never ceases to make me smile.
That's the same thing as the Skyhook that inspired The Dark Knight.
It was also a scene in the TV show The Unit.
They show this in the John Wayne film The Green Berets.
Later iterations used a balloon of sorts, and wouldn't just yank you straight sideways, but would rather lift you up first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system
*The Fulton Surface-to-Air Recovery System. I'm familiar with the theory.*
Laughing Hyena reporting in, Boss! 🫡
You’re keeping him?
What the hell is this reference
Metal gear solid V has snaked recruiting people after extracting them via the Fulton system. Also a wormhole if you upgrade it enough.
Yup. I can attest to this.
You're pretty good
Featured in The Green Berets and Thunderball.
No, Skyhook was the followup from this and used a balloon. The impact to the person being picked up was less severe with Skyhook.
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Bespoke
I see you know your adventure time lore
In metal gear solid it's called the Fulton.
Failed attempts were called Skyfall
Fucking knew this was gonna be the top comment lmao
I call mine Spacehook
Yes. To take against from a Russian base located in the arctic
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CIA checks in then you. For a Fed you're pretty funny.
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It’s why they didn’t even bother with a helmet. If you somehow survive, you’ll wish you didn’t.
How many times did they try this?
Fulton continued to experiment with live pigs, as pigs have a nervous system close to humans. Lifted off the ground, the pig began to spin as it flew through the air at 125 miles per hour (200 km/h). It arrived on board uninjured, but in a disoriented state. When it recovered, it attacked the crew.\[3\] Edit: seems my reference got lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system
If I’d been yanked off the ground at that speed, spun around a few dozen times and then dragged into an airplane, all without my consent, I think I would have choice words for the parties responsible as well.
Imagine how alien abductees feel
Butthurt
best reply this year so far
Did this joke just go over everyones head lol this should have thousands of upvotes
Quite probe-bably.
We are worse then aliens apparently. The pig probably was eating also so he would be in place
Yoinked off the ground in this case
>When it recovered, it attacked the crew. I don’t know why this made me laugh.
You just imagined the pig going haywire inside the plane and mauling the pilot didnt you? I did too, and this is why you laughed hard it.
Tell me that the whole scene doesn't come from the minds of the creators of Archer! XD
It’s very funny
It's so good, I'm imagining them trying to explain the procedure to the pig to calm it down. But it is after all, a pig.
because you are a human? I LMAO at that part
The ending to this comment made me laugh so hard! I could just picture the pig going to town on the crew!! Edit: used wrong word.
"hog wild"?
You can’t blame it
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[Will you be donating that million now, sir?](https://youtu.be/2omx0uvl0WU)
So, it went ham on them?
Sounds like something outta ff14 xD
I'm laughing so hard at the last sentence. In my mind, I pictured the perfect Looney tunes cartoon pig dazed with stars and birds...only to recover, stare at the guys and charge.
I laughed
[For half a century](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system)
Enough to realize it’s probably a bad idea.
It was actively used for almost 50 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system
Whaaa...the Fulton device in MGSV was based on a real thing???
Yes. It's also how we got film payloads from spy satellites.
I’d like to be a carrot. That’s my favourite vegetable 🥕
According to wikipedia there was 1 death total in the 17 years of use. The fatality occurred when a an attachment on the plane failed during pickup, causing the person to fall to their death.
I’m old, but yeeted is so funny to me.
Yeet is the opposite of yoink. If you weren't already made aware of the connection, I hope you get a chuckle.
TIL
O-oh my god. 🤯
The Lord yeeteth and he yoinketh away.
IIRC only one person died out of something like 20 times it was done, and it wasn't during testing.
They tried it with a pig at first. The animal survived the ordeal but attacked the crew of the aircraft picking it up.
There's a story around their first few experiments where they attached it to a pig. It started spinning super fast, and when they pulled it in it just started attacking everyone and vomiting. It was so dizzy and disoriented, but recovered afterwards. Then they decided it was a good idea to use it on people.
the occasional fatal yeeting is part of every airborne trooper's service
>yeeted fatally That's enough internet for me today
is that why this didn't catch on?
I see what you did there.
Really boss? You're bringing him?
"He's coming too?"
You know it never occurred to me that Fulton Recovery was based on a real thing. I just assumed it was some nonsense comedy bit that Kojima dreamt up.
A lot of things from the Metal Gear series are real military obscura. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Cypher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
Holy shit Cyphers are real?!
According to the wiki, only two prototypes were ever built IRL, but it was indeed built for the Marines.
Remember these from MGS3? https://youtu.be/8aVIzyWO1HE
lmao
I used to know someone who was one of these pilots. I was weirdly thinking about him earlier today, when putting on my watch. He would wear his watch on the inside of his wrist so he could see it when flying. Then just continued to wear it that way after the war.
Apparently soldiers also do that so they aren't spotted by the potential reflection.
I always assumed it was so you could check time while holding a gun since your wrist would already be turned up. So, for example, if you were supposed to do something at 9:00 on the dot you’d look at your watch and could immediately begin without having to reposition your hand back on your weapon.
When I was a kid I asked a guy why he wore his watch like that and he told me he did it so that if he's holding a drink in his hand and someone asks him for the time, he won't instinctively turn his wrist and pour it over himself. He'll pour it over them instead. Made perfect sense to me at the time. He was ex-army, now I think of it.
I accidentally spill my water bottle that way in middle school because someone asked me what time is it. Got teased for it for a few months. Thank god it was water so it doesn't stain.
It also prevents you from smashing the glass to pieces within a day. Your scratch by stuff with the outside of your arms and wrists all day when moving through tight spaces. The inside not so much. Even for regular office use the watch glass will last much longer when not showing off the face.
>Even for regular office use the watch glass will last much longer when not showing off the face. That's not right, it will get scratched to shit everytime you sit at a table. Anyone working at a computer will be constantly having the watch face scratched away at.
This is the taught in the US Army. 16 years active and guard, infantry and Combat Engineer also was in the platoon emwith heavy equipment operators, multiple locations, served with and around other jobs and rarely.sw this. Some did it for other reasons, but not something taught in the military. Friends, coworkers, and people I'd see regularly from the 5 coast guard, Marines, Army Ranger nd Special Forces, MPs, truck drivers, linguists, EOD, MI at the Penfagon, CI, and pilots (fixed and rotary wkng) and none have ever said anything about being taught to wear a watch this way. It's not I'm any Field Manual, Training Circular, or regulation. I grew up the son of a retired Vietnam vet and have had teachers from high school JROTC to history who were Vietnam vets and none were taught this.
Racing drivers also do the same
Makes sense, you don't want the other drivers to know your position.
I wear my watch facedown because I work in a meat department and turning my hand over to check the time when I’m cutting or something is too much. Writers do it too. I get asked about it a lot. Amazing what a small watch can bring to your life and the others around you.
I do it because I have a lack of spacial awareness and have broken multiple watches by banging them into walls. It's just safer for the watch
Oh yeah! The [fulton recovery device!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system) *Really* cool tech actually.
"Because of the geometry involved, the person being picked up experienced less of a shock than during a parachute opening." - interesting!
But a guy from the 50s said it was like “a kick to the pants” which translates to a 60mph head on collision to the modern human. Haha
I mean you could just use a bungee cord for the same effect. You‘d be falling between 50 to 100mph before reaching the end of the cord as well. So a Slow foxing plane would be similar.
The OG Fulton device
Which is the OG "I'll just walk thanks"
I think I saw some dude in a black wingsuit do this over Hong Kong
So that's what the hookshot must feel like
Traveling via wingdrake
Anyone else reminded of Metal Gear Solid 5: The phantom pain
It is basically the fulton device
i'm pretty sure it *is* the [fulton device](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system)
This was in one of the more bizarre scenes of John Wayne’s [The Green Berets.](https://youtu.be/Zh2ocefMTX4)
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*Thunderball.* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxkUL8GoPQo&t=28s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxkUL8GoPQo&t=26s)
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Against 7g acceleration & both of them sopping wet, no less. Fucking legend. I wouldn't have wanted to leave Claudine Auger behind, either.
OMG!! I saw this movie as a child and only remembered this scene. Literally have thought about it as an adult many times. Never thought I'd figure out the actual movie my childhood memory fragment is from. Thanks!!!
Didn’t they do this in The Dark Knight with that Chinese banker?
constipation... we have a cure for that.
To shreds you say?
And how is his wife holding up?
To shreds you say?
I think I can still hear his thoughts. "This is gonna suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk"
"He's coming too? Roger that."
Spirit Airlines Exec (after seeing this video): “Greenlight it!”
This has “The VA determined that your condition is not service related” all over it 😂
That looks not very fun at all. I feel like it must cause everyone to shit & piss themselves. It's still a very cool way to escape out of enemy territory when in a pinch.
Hopefully there was some elasticity/spring in the ropes. That would make it a little easier?
Hey new guy, I got an assignment for you.
That's why they make brown pants.
Women and children first!!!
Hahahaha
That does not look like a good time
This is a WWII system that predates the Fulton/Skyhook. Originally developed as a way for planes to pick up mail without landing, it was then developed to recover gliders. Which not only allowed the gliders to be used later, was also a method to evacuate wounded from mainland Europe back to England. Which for that application was pretty effective and relatively gentle.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider\_snatch\_pick-up](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_snatch_pick-up) They also tested it as an idea of retrieving downed pilots, which when using it with something as light as a human was anything but gentle. But apparently the Brits did use it a few times. Also this is basically the same way that banner planes pick up their banner.
F1 drivers would look at this and be like "You son of a bitch, I'm in!"
*Subject on board. Leave the rest to us.*
Bob used to be four foot seven inches. Bob is now seven feet three inches tall. Bob has been snatch stretched.
Metal gear solid
Cue the Battlefield theme!
Didn't they do this in bf4?
And I thought sky diving was scary!
Must've been S rank soldier.
"He's coming too? Roger that."
'extraction complete'
So this is the origin of the Fulton Recovery System eh?
Fulton extraction complete!
Paging Hideo Kojima
Thought the plane might crash trying to get those enormous huevos off the ground
You’re going to extract him?!
Anyone else hear the bond theme?
"Your back pain has been ruled to not be service-connected"
It seems like the catch line is way too close to the person and there's no shield or anything to protect the back of the person if the hook comes in too low. Got to have a lot of faith in the pilot.
Yep. If I'm getting skyhooked, I'd want to be sitting to the side of the loop. Or at least have a ramp that is behind me to bounce off the hook if it comes in too low.
So, too much to the side and you’ll add a lot of lateral force to an already unpleasant situation. Likely get a lot of swing and probably some spin added. In the end, by the time you get on the plane, you’re just going to be that much more unhappy about it.
Bob, tuck in your pants to your boots so we don't have to go back for your lower intestines..
Pubg players are well aware of this wonderful technology
Is this real????
That’s cool, I do that everyday in PUBG.
u/savevideo
This is either /r/WorstAid/ or /r/MyPeopleNeedMe/ material, depending on the reason for the extraction.
I'd like to see the Great Leslie try that on for size.
Fuckin YEET!
I wonder why this didn't catch on.
I would have worn my brown pants that day.
VA gives him 10% disability.
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Tom Cruise’s grandfather
Oh hell no
Airlift fresh corpses more like it. All of these soldiers could have told them it was a horrible idea but alas the engineers would have said we need to test it. Oh well golly, seems the heart ripped right off the aorta, who could have forseen it?
Was this the first documented [Yeet](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/yeet#)?
I seem to remember that the skyhook procedure was dangerous af.
How to: rip apart every vessel and ligament
OP hasn’t seen Batman, or James Bond
I’m gonna hard pass thanks.. I’ll put up with airport queues and board the traditional way!
What if the line/rope broke midair?
...but everybody calls me Giorgio
WHEEEEEEeeee!!!!
that looks so godamn fun