Skyhook

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Skyhook can refer to any of the following:

• Skyhook balloon, a type of unmanned balloon used by the United States Navy in the late 1940s and in the 1950s for atmospheric research
• Cessna CH-1, a helicopter produced in the early 1960s by the Cessna Aircraft company that was marketed to the civil sector as the "Cessna Skyhook"
• 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 (structure), a hypothetical structure used for transporting material to and from a planet's surface into orbit

• A rare device used to hang objects, commonly pots, over elements, from the sky. The skyhook does not take on any one shape.
• An explanation of design complexity in the universe that does not build on lower, simpler layers (coined by Daniel Dennett in Darwin's Dangerous Idea)

• Skyhooks, an Australian rock band of the 1970s

• Skyhook Wireless is a service for determining geographical location by looking up the MAC Address of a Wireless Access Point

Skyhook is a nickname for the following:

• Fulton surface-to-air recovery system, a retrieval method to be used by an aircraft
• Hook shot, a basketball shot popularized by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar