When a mission is over, the GPS-guided ScanEagle has to be snagged by a "skyhook" system, akin to the way fighter jets land on an aircraft carrier. A hook on the wing of the UAV catches a rope hanging from a 50-foot pole in a less-than-a-second landing that even a Boeing field service representative has called "violent."
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