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:
“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today—but the core of science fiction, its essence ... has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
—Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
“It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)