Strachan was a well-known supporter of the Hawthorn Football Club in the AFL. [3] Music career and Skyhooks [ edit ] David Roberts, ed. (2006). Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums. Guinness World Records Ltd. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. Phase I of Boeing's Hypersonic Airplane Space Tether Orbital Launch ( HASTOL) study, published in 2000, proposed a 600km-long tether, in an equatorial orbit at 610–700km altitude, rotating with a tip speed of 3.5km/s. This would give the tip a ground speed of 3.6km/s (Mach 10), which would be matched by a hypersonic airplane carrying the payload module, with transfer at an altitude of 100km. The tether would be made of existing commercially available materials: mostly Spectra 2000 (a kind of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene), except for the outer 20km which would be made of heat-resistant Zylon PBO. With a nominal payload mass of 14 tonnes, the Spectra/Zylon tether would weigh 1300 tonnes, or 90 times the mass of the payload. The authors stated:

Find the spilt token (computing - when a token ring network cable is unplugged, can end up with everyone on hands and knees searching!)

A trainee chemist shop assistant was left to man the counter alone. He was almost immediately asked by a "customer" (actually a colleague) to find a jar of Gnat Tit Ointment. Days later when he is once more alone at the counter, another customer asks him for mothballs. The trainee responded "Mothballs? Who do you think you're fooling?'' Sending someone to Engineering Control to report, "Sir, High level alarm in the cooling system, request permission to blow the MPA" (naval) Zuk, Tony. "Australian Television: Always Greener: articles". Australian Television Information Archive. Archived from the original on 22 November 2012 . Retrieved 1 September 2016. a b c d e f Brown, Jen Jewel (31 August 2001). Duncan Kimball (ed.). "We just liked him 'cos he was Shirl". MILESAGO: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975. ICE Productions . Retrieved 24 November 2009.

Winners by Award: Hall of Fame". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 2 February 2009 . Retrieved 23 October 2020. In 2011, the Skyhooks album Living in the 70's was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry. [11] History [ edit ] 1966–1974: Early years and formation [ edit ] Australian Music Awards". Ron Jeff. Archived from the original on 30 June 2012 . Retrieved 16 December 2010.Apter, Jeff (2012). Shirl: the life of legendary larrikin Graeme 'Shirley' Strachan. Hardie Grant. ISBN 978-1-74270-260-5. The Skyhook has been featured in a number of films and video games. It was seen in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, where James Bond and his companion Domino Derval are rescued at sea by a modified Boeing B-17 equipped with the Fulton system at the end of the movie. [8] In 1968, it was used in the John Wayne movie The Green Berets to spirit a VC officer to South Vietnam. [8] New students at certain posh British colleges were urged very seriously to leave a urine sample outside the Principal's Office on arrival. No containers were provided, resulting in a surreal element to this prank/errand.

Strachan met "Freddy" Strauks, a drummer, at a performance at Village Green. Strachan would later drive his friend to gigs. [1] Strauks and Greg Macainsh, on bass guitar, were members of Claptrap in 1970, and they asked Strachan to join on lead vocals in the following year. [4] [5] The group were renamed Frame with Strachan; Strauks and Macainsh were joined by Pat O'Brien and Sintjio Oohms, both on guitars. [6] The group's debut performance was on 19 April 1971 at Eltham's Montsalvat, where Strachan "stood facing the band, too shy to face the audience." [2] First, the bottom leaver must be released before sliding the pole onto the base, when this is done, slide the pole onto the base until it hits the bottom, then tighten the leaver to secure. Kalaghan, P., Arnold, D. A., Colombo, G., Grossi, M., Kirschner, L. R., and Orringer, O., "Study of the Dynamics of a Tethered Satellite System (Skyhook)," NASA Contract NAS8-32199, SAO Final Report, Mar. 1978. a b Jones, Alistair (11 August 2012). "Ego not a dirty word for Skyhooks star". The Australian. News Corp Australia . Retrieved 1 September 2016. Hui, Jin (23 February 2016). " "Best ever" Strachan swim". Noosa Today . Retrieved 20 December 2018.The True Story of 'Metal Gear Solid's' Fulton Recovery System". War Is Boring. 4 September 2015 . Retrieved 12 March 2023. Nimmervoll, Ed. "Skyhooks 2". Howlspace – The Living History of Our Music. White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd (Ed Nimmervoll). Archived from the original on 26 July 2012 . Retrieved 22 January 2014. Pearson, J (1975). "The Orbital Tower: A Spacecraft Launcher Using the Earth's Rotational Energy". Acta Astronautica. 2 (9–10): 785–799. Bibcode: 1975AcAau...2..785P. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.530.3120. doi: 10.1016/0094-5765(75)90021-1. a b McFarlane, 'The Party Boys' entry. Archived from the original on 19 April 2004. Retrieved 31 August 2016. Brown, Jennifer Lois (1975). Skyhooks: Million Dollar Riff. Collingwood, Vic: Dingo. ISBN 0-909109-01-X. Note: Brown was later known as Jenny Hunter Brown and then as Jen Jewel Brown.