Skyhook

Technology

• Skyhook (concept), explanation of design complexity in the universe that does not build on lower, simpler layers
• Skyhook (cable)
  Skyhook (cable)
  A skyhook is a "hook" used to lift an object on a long cable hanging from the sky, without readily-apparent support. In the mid-20th century it was common in the Boy Scouts and occupations such as oil drilling to send new recruits on a futile search for such an imaginary object, as a practical joke...
  
  , "hook" used to lift an object on a long cable hanging from the sky
• Skyhook (structure)
  Skyhook (structure)
  Skyhooks are a theoretical class of cable based techniques intended to lift payloads to high altitudes and speeds. The name skyhook is a reference to an imaginary hook that hangs from the sky....
  
  , class of cable based techniques for lifting payloads to high altitudes and speeds
• Space elevator
  Space elevator
  A space elevator, also known as a geostationary orbital tether or a beanstalk, is a proposed non-rocket spacelaunch structure...
  
  , proposed structure designed to transport material from a celestial body's surface into space
• Skyhook balloon
  Skyhook balloon
  Skyhook balloons were balloons developed by Otto C. Winzen and General Mills, Inc., and used by the United States Navy Office of Naval Research in the late 1940s and in the 1950s for atmospheric research, especially for constant-level meteorological observations at very high altitudes...
  
  , type of unmanned balloon used by the United States Navy in the late 1940s and in the 1950s for atmospheric research
• Airco DH.6
  Airco DH.6
  The Airco DH.6 was a British military trainer biplane used by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Known by various nicknames, including the "Skyhook", the trainer became a widely used light civil aircraft in the postwar era....
  
  , nicknamed Skyhook; early (1916) ab-initio trainer aircraft
• Fulton surface-to-air recovery system
  Fulton surface-to-air recovery system
  The Fulton surface-to-air recovery system is a system used by the CIA, United States Air Force and United States Navy for retrieving persons on the ground from an MC-130E Combat Talon I aircraft. It involves using an overall-type harness and a self-inflating balloon which carries an attached lift...
  
  , nicknamed Skyhook; retrieval method by which a flying aircraft picks up a payload
• SkyHook Grove method,Elmer's toy defies gravity
• SkyHook JHL-40
  SkyHook JHL-40
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  , experimental combination airship/helicopter in development by Boeing, primarily for low impact logging
• Cessna CH-1
  Cessna CH-1
  The Cessna CH-1 is the only helicopter ever built by the Cessna Aircraft Company. It was the first helicopter to land on the summit of Pike's Peak and the last piston-engined helicopter to set the helicopter altitude record. The CH-1 had a single, two-bladed main rotor, and a front-mounted...
  
  , nicknamed Cessna Skyhook; helicopter produced in the early 1960s by the Cessna Aircraft company that was marketed to the civil sector
• Skyhook Wireless
  Skyhook Wireless
  Skyhook Wireless is a Boston-based company that developed a technology for determining geographical location using Wi-Fi as the underlying reference system. Using the MAC addresses of nearby wireless access points and proprietary algorithms, Skyhook's Wi-Fi Positioning System WPS can determine...
  
   is a service for determining geographical location by looking up the MAC Address of a Wireless Access Point

Fiction

• Sky Hook
  Sky Hook
  Sky Hook was a science fiction fanzine published by Redd Boggs from 1948-1957. It was nominated for the 1954 Retro Hugo for Best Fanzine.....
  
  , a Hugo-award nominated science fiction fanzine
• Sky Hook (film)
  Sky Hook (film)
  Sky Hook is a 2000 Yugoslavian film directed by Ljubiša Samardžić. It was Yugoslavia's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-See also:*Cinema of Yugoslavia...
  
  , 1999 Yugoslavian film

Sports

• Skyhook (boarding)
  Skyhook (boarding)
  In skateboarding and related sports, skyhooks are devices which serve as semi-open bindings. They are usually made of aluminium, steel or hard plastic and are formed to cover the rider's boot, yet to allow him to easily free his feet from the hook...
  
  , binding used in skateboarding and related sports
• Skyhook (climbing)
  Skyhook (climbing)
  A skyhook is a piece of climbing equipment, a very small hook which gives hold on small protrusions or watery and slippery grips.They are most often used for placements, often extremely marginal, in aid climbing, although they also feature in some extreme free routes...
  
  , hook used in technical climbing
• Skyhook (skydiving), device for quickly extracting reserve parachutes
• Hook shot
  Hook shot
  A hook shot, in basketball, is a play in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Unlike the jump shot, it is shot with only one hand; the other...
  
  , nicknamed Skyhook; basketball shot popularized by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar