bowman wrote:

Matt Whiting wrote:

Maybe I'm not getting the full picture here, but it seems at first blush
that this would require the Cub to be able to fly a zero radius turn.

Picture a conic section with the bucket at the vertex and the rope
describing the generatrices.

If the pilot's willing to try a stunt like this one, his generatrices
must be huge!

Mark Hickey