Check out this control line

[Mike Griffin]

[Gary Dowler]

Wow, that's fantastic. Any idea the cable length?  Looked to me like slightly over 1 second laps.

Gary.

[Randy Cuberly]

I don't know if it's still there or not but as of a few years ago Whittier Narrows in LA had a similar track like that, except a bit larger I think, and ran tether cars like that, only significantly faster than that one.  Incredible to watch!

Randy Cuberly

[Peter Grabenstein]

Ouch.... yes.... I know...this is CL flying Forum...... BUT......

we have such event every year going on
in the deeepest "Black Wood Forest" in Germany.
This Club was founded 1958.
Many ECīs and WCīs  held down there in the middle of BIG OLD WOODS.
About ten years ago, at my last Kapfenhardt visit
"Mr. PICCO" itself was the "Name of the Game" in .60class,
reaching over 330 KmH .

There are other "Kapfenhardt" movies you can follow on YouTube.

For visitors:
I recommend the local Bratwurst, Beer, Coffee and Cheesecake in that order but
only in small doses.

[peabody]

There was a tether track on the Phu Bai airbase compound in Viet Nam as I recall....never saw any activity there but imagine that a GI (or bunch of GIs) built it.

I hope Frank will chime in here....I understand that there is a tether track in Anderson, IN as another somewhere on Long Island?

Have fun!

[Carl Cisneros]

here is one from Whittier Narrows in 2012




Or a bit of a wet type from Bulgaria in 2012




Carl

[Serge_Krauss]

I was always fascinated with the tether cars in my old American Modelers and earlier publications. The 150 mph Dooling .61-powered cars with their Franny's Chromed Liners were pretty impressive. Since then, I've bought some old 1940's vintage Model Craftsman magazines with race reports. They also contain tether boat racing from places like Detroit's Belle Isle, with guys like Ed Kalfus and his huge (for that time) home-made engines. The equipment shown here is beautifully crafted. Incidentally, Dad became a friend of Augie Duesenberg in the late 1930's, when he was trying to get A.D. to build him one of these engines.

[Chris Sarnowski]

The tether car track on Long Island is at Cedar Creek Park in Seaford, NY.

-Chris

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/nyregion/long-island/28carsli.html

[john e. holliday]

There is a tether car track a little ways from Muncie that I have been to with Melvin and we watched the guys run there cars.  Electronic timing.  Some of the guys that fly speed at the NATS usually are there.   I know I don't want to be the guy in the middle helping the cars along until they start getting some speed to them.

[louie klein]

When I was a kid living in Flushing N.Y. on L.I. there was a lake called Kasina Park. They had a club that ran tetherd hydro plane boats. Every Sunday they would run these beautiful Mahogany boats with monster motors you would hear miles away. They just flew over the water on there props, but times change and noise became an issue and they were gone. Stiil a great memory of modeling.--Louie

[Larry Renger]

Whittier. Narrows does have an active club and track. At 200+ mph you can not see the car at all. 

[Frank Imbriaco]

When tether cars started to resemble cigars rather than midjet racers  and also exceeded 80mph , the sport died. The early Dooling, Bremmer , McCoy and other cars of the forties generated an incredible fan base that lasted about 15 years. Folks could watch em on rail tracks or tether. Weird, but forward progress weakened it.