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The idea is to keep it out of that nasty salt water (cold salt water + hot rocket engines is a bad combination...). That's why they're going for a Corona style
by JshWright 12y ago
The idea is to keep it out of that nasty salt water (cold salt water + hot rocket engines is a bad combination...).
That's why they're going for a Corona style recovery.
- chiph 12y agoCorona used a C-130 system as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-air_retrieval#/media/File:Corona_recovery_sequence.PNG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-air_retrieval#/media/File:C... Thinking about it, it might be a weight constraint to cause them to use a helicopter. The sudden capture of an object weighing a few thousand pounds by a plane flying 350 mph could be too dangerous.
- JshWright 12y agoThe major difference between Corona and Fulton is that Fulton is not mid-air (and therefore involves the thing being retrieved getting a saltwater bath).
- astrodust 12y agoThere are some pretty big helicopters out there that wouldn't blink at picking up a load like this. The Chinook is used for cargo transport quite frequently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook
- arethuza 12y agoSpeaking of moving vehicles and people in the sea - the UK SBS have a rather interesting technique for divers getting picked up by a moving submarine. The divers wait in two teams separated by a line, they notify the sub that then raises its periscope and steers between the two groups snagging the line. The divers then climb along the line to the sub. [NB This was what they were doing ~1970 according to Paddy Ashdown]