Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Skyhooks

A Chinook May Soon Capture a Rocket Engine from the Sky

 Because the capture barge thing is not working.
 
 

Al - Looks like Elon Musk and his guys at SpaceX Corporation need your help.

It is doable possibly.  Didn't the Air Force use CH-3 Sea King equipped with retrieval systems to snatch early spy drones out of the air after their flight over North Vietnam?  I am not sure what the weight of  the Falcon engine is though.