"SKY HOOK" TESTS IN AUSTRALIA
Now that the Army Air Technical Service Command has announced that a method has been perfected for planes to pick up a man from the ground without it is possible to disclose that some of the most important tests were made in Australia.
In its the device is extremely simple.
A towline, with a special hook trails behind a plane } which flies low over a line held between- two slender poles.
The towline hook of the plane catches into the ground line, both ends of which are hitched to the object it is desired to lift.
Experiments on the "sky hook" were begun in Australia shortly after a young American representing the aviation concern, Avhich controlled the basic patents 4 arrived in Brisbane last February.
He had helped the inventor of the device in developing it in the United and was called to Australia to assist United States and Australian Army technicians in improving it..
The device originally was* aimed to enable non-stop civilian aeroplanes to pick up mails and cargoes in out-of-the-way places.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BPB19450112.2.21
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 39, 12 January 1945, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
179"SKY HOOK" TESTS IN AUSTRALIA Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 39, 12 January 1945, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Beacon Printing and Publishing Company is the copyright owner for the Bay of Plenty Beacon. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Beacon Printing and Publishing Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in