Mid-air retrieval is a technique used in atmospheric reentry when the reentering vehicle is incapable of a satisfactory unassisted landing. The vehicle...
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reuse would involve using a parafoil and mid-air retrieval by a helicopter. After a successful mid-air retrieval the helicopter would bring the Electron...
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Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group Mid-air retrieval Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction United States Air Force § Personnel Recovery Glider snatch...
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capsule's retrieval. A normal parachute landing might have damaged the delicate samples, so the mission design called for a mid-air retrieval of the sample...
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carrier Parasite aircraft Submarine aircraft carrier Composite aircraft Mid-air retrieval List of fictional airborne aircraft carriers Ege, Lennart (1973)....
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Electron first stage in August 2019, aiming to use a parachute and mid-air retrieval. In December 2019, they flight tested the reentry technology, a Rocket...
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Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Air Force)
Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. This aircraft was specially modified for the mid-air retrieval of space capsules reentering...
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orbits with film canisters returning via capsule and parachute with mid-air retrieval. SAMOS was first launched in 1960 but not operational until 1963,...
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war in 1975, the USAF successfully conducted approximately 2,655 Mid-Air Retrieval System (MARS) catches, out of 2,745 attempts, primarily using the...
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made the spacecraft incapable of landing independently, requiring mid-air retrieval. This was deemed too risky, and the hybrid final design manages to...
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calls for a mid-air retrieval, wherein another aircraft captures the descending Orion Lite module.[citation needed] To date, such a retrieval method has...
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parachute, it can be snagged by a specially designed aircraft. This mid-air retrieval technique was used to recover the film canisters from the Corona spy...
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of their Electron launch vehicle, intending to use parachutes and mid-air retrieval. On 20 November 2020, Rocket Lab successfully returned an Electron...
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Lockheed C-130 Hercules (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Air Force)
transferred to 6593rd Test Squadron at Hickam AFB, Hawaii and modified for mid-air retrieval of satellites; acquired by 6514th Test Squadron at Hill AFB, Utah...
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An automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS or AS/RS) consists of a variety of computer-controlled systems for automatically placing and retrieving...
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Ryan Firebee (category Mid-wing aircraft)
2014. Retrieved 14 January 2015. Kelly, John W. (23 June 2016). "Mid-Air Retrieval of Heavy, Earth-Returning Space Systems" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 26...
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The Air Force then devised a retrieval method using a Sikorsky CH-3E helicopter that snagged the parachute in mid-air and winched it in. Mid-air retrieval...
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pressurized cargo module would return to Earth and be recovered with a mid-air retrieval operation. The ARPO system is designed to take the ARCTUS vehicle...
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parachute-recovered with the new mid-air retrieval system, which used a helicopter to grab the parachute cable in mid-air. While this had an IMINT mission...
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The Japanese Air Force One and Japanese Air Force Two are the radio callsigns of the two Boeing 777-300ER aircraft used by the government of Japan for...
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26 January 2007, a dispute arose between Adam Air and the Indonesian government regarding the retrieval of the black boxes. Due to the depth involved...
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return 20 August Successful SRV recovered in mid-air by a C-119 Flying Boxcar, first mid-air retrieval of a spacecraft. It Carried TOD-4 Navigation Payload...
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General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon (category Mid-wing aircraft)
line in Ankara under license for the Turkish Air Force. TAI also produced 46 Block 40s for Egypt in the mid-1990s and 30 Block 50s from 2010 onwards. Korean...
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Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KE007/KAL007) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska. On September 1, 1983...
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Royal Flying Doctor Service (category Air ambulance services in Australia)
Service (RFDS), commonly known as the Flying Doctor, is an aeromedical retrieval service in Australia and the largest of its kind in the world. It is a...
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A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or...
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Roswell incident (redirect from Air Force reports on the Roswell UFO incident)
The Air Force concluded that the number of accounts of body retrievals suggested an explanation other than dishonesty, and that the retrieval process...
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EAAA". East Anglian Air Ambulance. 19 April 2016. Ellis, Dan; Hooper, Matthew (26 March 2010). Cases in Pre-hospital and Retrieval Medicine. Elsevier Health...
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514th Flight Test Squadron (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency)
Launched Cruise Missile, 1979–1990[citation needed] HH-53C MARS (Mid-Air Retrieval System), ? until 1988 <Major Alan D Resnicke, USAF, Retired> HH-1H...
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch (redirect from Retrieval Artist)
an Enchanted Afternoon, 2001 Little Miracles and Other Tales, 2001 The Retrieval Artist and Other Stories, 2002 Recovering Apollo 8 and Other Stories,...
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