Talk:Fulton surface-to-air recovery system

Needs work

This article seems to be a more or less verbatim copy of https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/95unclass/Leary.html, but parts of the original CIA article have been left out. Someone more familar with the copyright issues and plagarism policies of wikipedia needs to review it.

"Once it recovered, it attacked the crew."

That is a actually from the PD source article [1]. A user removed it [2], probably thinking it was vandalism, but it is apparently true.

The article implies that the Fulton system was used in the 1952 Manchuria operation, but the Fulton system was not yet operational. title=This CIA page states that the operation would have used STARS's predecessor, the All American System. Djfgregory (talk) 05:11, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

dirigible-shaped balloon

The term "dirigible-shaped balloon" is no clear, since dirigible just states it's another word for balloon. 109.67.203.144 (talk) 07:39, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

7 g acceleration claim

The article seems to claim that a pickup at 130m and 200km/h caused an acceleration of 7 g's, but that is physically impossible. Under these parameters the initial acceleration would be only 2.4g even if the cable was completely inelastic. --Tennenrishin (talk) 10:36, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

On inspection, the citation provided does not make such a claim in the first place. There is mention of 7 g's during a 1943 test of a completely different system with different operating parameters. So I'm removing the incorrect claim from the article. --Tennenrishin (talk) 12:58, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

In popular media

I noticed this (or a system like it) is featured in the film Barely Lethal and the video game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain — Preceding unsigned comment added by VTNC (talk • contribs) 21:02, 9 September 2015 (UTC)