In Fiction
- The jump was successfully orchestrated by James Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies.
- A HALO jump is performed in the opening scene of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
- In the film Air Force One a team of US Special Ops soldiers are seen performing a HAHO to land on the roof of a palace.
- In the 2011 video game Battlefield 3 a HALO jump is performed by Russian GRU operatives.
- In the second episode of Last Resort (U.S. TV series), a Russian Spetsnaz team performs a HALO jump.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“A fiction about soft or easy deaths ... is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)