Skyhook

"Skyhooks" redirects here. For the Australian band, see Skyhooks (band).

Skyhook or sky hook may refer to:

Fiction

• Sky Hook, a Hugo-award nominated science fiction fanzine
• Sky Hook (film), 1999 Yugoslavian film

Music

• Skyhooks (band), Australian band

Science

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

Sports

• Hook shot, nicknamed Skyhook: basketball shot popularized by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Skyhook (boarding), binding used in skateboarding and related sports
• Skyhook (climbing), hook used in technical climbing
• Skyhook (skydiving), device for quickly extracting reserve parachutes

Technology

• Airco DH.6, nicknamed Skyhook; early (1916) ab-initio trainer aircraft
• Australian Autogyro Skyhook, A.K.A. the Minty Skyhook Mini Chopper
• Cessna CH-1, nicknamed Cessna Skyhook; 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; retrieval method by which a flying aircraft picks up a payload
• Skyhook, 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), a supposed device used to lift an object on a long cable hanging from the sky
• Skyhook (structure), class of cable based techniques for lifting payloads to high altitudes and speeds
• Skyhook balloon, type of unmanned balloon used by the United States Navy in the late 1940s and in the 1950s for atmospheric research
• SkyHook JHL-40, experimental combination airship/helicopter in development by Boeing, primarily for low impact logging
• Skyhook Wireless, a service for determining geographical location by looking up the MAC Address of a Wireless Access Point
• Space elevator, proposed structure designed to transport material from a celestial body's surface into space