A type of aerial crane helicopter pioneered by Sikorsky in 1950s and 1960s where the fuselage is only large enough to accommodate the pilot and crew and does not have a cargo hold or passenger area. Examples include S-64 Skycrane, S-60 and CH-54 Tarhe.
Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane, an American twin-engine heavy-lift helicopter
Sky crane (landing system), soft landing system used for Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers
Skycrane or skycrane may refer to: A type of aerial crane helicopter pioneered by Sikorsky in 1950s and 1960s where the fuselage is only large enough...
"Cranes in the Sky" is a song by American singer-songwriter Solange. Released on October 5, 2016 by Saint Records and Columbia Records, it is the first...
the MSL engineers came up with a novel alternative solution: the skycrane. The skycrane system lowered the rover with a 7.6 m (25 ft) tether to a soft...
An Erickson SkyCrane helicopter, foreground, frames the CST-100, background in 2012. The helicopter ascends to about 7,000 feet above the playa and releases...
and skycrane assembly detached from the backshell, and rockets on the skycrane controlled the remaining descent to the planet. As the skycrane moved...
137.4312 Debris field created by the heat shield, skycrane, and other components. Mars 2020 Skycrane United States 18 February 2021 Octavia E. Butler...
too heavy to use airbags, the retrorockets can be mounted on a skycrane. The skycrane drops from the parachute back shell and, as it nears the ground...
classic, Crane is also known for his poetry, journalism, and short stories such as "The Open Boat", "The Blue Hotel", "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", and...
Descent Vehicle (PDV) - which comprises the lander and the skycrane system. The skycrane system would lower the lander with a tether to a soft landing...
phase (Entry, Descent and Landing), and helped design, build and test the skycrane landing system. The media has portrayed Steltzner as a "rock and roll"...
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Corporation sold their latest design to Hughes for production. The XH-17 "SkyCrane" first flew in October 1952, but was commercially unsuccessful. In 1955...
Simon Crane (born 1960) is a British stuntman, stunt coordinator, second unit director and film director. Born in Twickenham, Middlesex, England. Crane was...
Aircraft Co. sold its latest design to Hughes for production. The XH-17 "SkyCrane" first flew in October 1952, but was commercially unsuccessful. In 1955...
Dinner in the Sky is a Belgian-based novelty restaurant service which uses a crane to hoist its diners, table, and waiting staff 150 feet (46 m) into the...
be delivered to Europa by the main spacecraft and possibly require the skycrane system for a high precision, soft landing near an active crevasse. The...
at Yellow Crane Tower. Amid March's mist and flowers he goes down to Yangzhou. The distant image of his lonely sail disappears in the blue sky, And all...
meteorology, geology and astrobiology. The demonstration rover would use NASA's skycrane system for landing, and once on the surface, would deploy the MELOS rover...
Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Cameron Crowe. It is an English-language...