From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   JF Mezei pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
      
   > SpaceX had tried to recover fairings as I recall and abandonned it.   
      
   SpaceX routinely reflies recovered fairings.  It does not use airplanes   
   to catch the fairings in the air.   
      
   >  This   
   > was "routine" back in the 1970s and early 1980s while this program lasted.   
      
   You may be amused to know that Rocket Labs has caught a booster with a   
   helicopter (once for a booster that had just launched and then   
   separated from the second stage).  Electron is smaller than a Falcon 9,   
   but still gave the copter crew problems with flight dynamics.  Turns   
   out to be cheaper and just about as effective to pluck the booster out   
   of the water.   
      
   /dps   
      
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