Originally posted here by roswell1329

If you look at all the action pictures, there's a wire leading from the craft offscreen. What is that about?
They said on the website that the initial test flights were tethered because they were pretty much afraid of the thing breaking and the test pilot falling. So, they tethered it to a crane in the parking lot.

Wired Story: http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,49792,00.html
(Watch the video)


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