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12-20-2006, 11:43 PM
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12-21-2006, 05:53 AM
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12-23-2006, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by timshatz  I would love to be in the briefing room when they threw this one at those two guys,
"Ok fellas, we're going to fly you up above the Artic Circle in a beat up old B17 where you drop out of the airplane by parachute to snoop around an abandoned Soviet Weather Station. When your done, we come back and pick you up by plucking you off the ice using a balloon capture technique that really oughta work well this time. Any questions?"
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02-17-2007, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by alieneggsac
The very same B-17 was also used at the end of the 007 Movie Thunderball when it was used to pick up James Bond and his girlfriend from a raft at the end of the movie. It's a great piece of movie history, actually, because it shows in great detail how the whole system worked... it's the only film archive of the system I know of. The joke of the Bond sequence, however, was the two mannequins could not be reeled into the plane because the reel in point was a hole in the tail gunner's position (where the twin 50's went), you could only fit one man at a time through the hole. The B-17 landed with James Bond mannequin and his girlfriend's legs sticking out the back of the tail gunners position!
| It was also shown in the The Green Berets starring John Wayne.
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I thought you'd all like to know that a painting by Keith Woodcock of the Skyhook B-17 was unveiled at the CIA of this mission and all participants received awards. My father Capt. Seigrist received his second Agency Seal Medallion for his work as Captain of the B-17 on this mission.
Incidentally this technology made it into the new Batman Movie and was given a 15 second clip where a C-130 Skyhook picks up Batman from the top of a building in Hong Kong.
The painting is now hanging prominently at HQ in VA. Here you can see the painting and a brief on the mission: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-f...he-arctic.html 
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07-29-2008, 09:40 AM
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