Morgans wrote:

I was watching an old movie,"Objective, Burma!", circa 1945. At the end of
the movie, they picked up a glider, by hanging a rope on poles, then a C 47
went by with a hook, and snagged the rope, pulling the glider out, from a
dead stop, to flying. Was this a common maneuver?

Yes.

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.