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
Music
- Skyhooks (band), an Australian rock band
Science
- Skyhook (concept), an explanation of design complexity in the universe that does not build on lower, simpler layers
Sports
- 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
Technology
- 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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