Skyhook

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Skyhook, sky hook or skyhooks may refer to:

Fiction

Sky Hook, a Hugo-award nominated science fiction fanzine
Sky Hook (film), a 1999 Yugoslavian film
'Sky hook', a mechanical device used to supposedly operate The Great Glass Elevator in Roald Dahl's children's book, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
'Sky-Hook', a device used to ride Sky-Lines in Columbia and as a melee weapon in BioShock Infinite

Skyhook (concept), an explanation of design complexity in the universe that does not build on lower, simpler layers

Hook shot, nicknamed skyhook, a basketball shot popularized by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Skyhook (boarding), a binding used in skateboarding and related sports
Skyhook (climbing), a hook used in technical climbing
Skyhook (skydiving), a device for quickly extracting reserve parachutes
Skyhook (tennis), a smash in which the Eastern grip used to hit the ball further behind the body than is normally possible

Airco DH.6, nicknamed Skyhook, an early (1916) ab initio trainer aircraft
Australian Autogyro Skyhook, also known as the Minty Skyhook Mini Chopper
Cessna CH-1, nicknamed Cessna Skyhook, a helicopter produced in the early 1960s by the Cessna Aircraft company that was marketed to the civil sector
Fulton surface-to-air recovery system, nicknamed Skyhook, a retrieval method by which a flying aircraft picks up a payload
a hook that clamps to the rungs of a non-extension type ladder which can then be "hooked" over the peak of a roof to use the ladder as a staircase on steep pitched roofs by a roofer
Skyhook (cable), an imaginary device used to lift an object on a long cable hanging from the sky
Skyhook (structure), a space elevator concept
Skyhook balloon, a type of unmanned balloon used by the United States Navy in the late 1940s and in the 1950s for atmospheric research
SkyHook JHL-40, an experimental combination airship/helicopter in development by Boeing, primarily for low impact logging
Skyhook (skydiving), a type of main-assisted reserve parachute deployment system
Skyhook theory, a theory used in some automobile suspensions
Skyhook Wireless, a technology company that invented hybrid location positioning

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