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April 16th 16, 02:26 AM
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Auto-Towing - why is this not more popular?
On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 9:19:36 AM UTC-7, wrote:
Hello to all! Please for help: how much is the highest height when towing by a car ("world best achievement")? How about this? up to 1500' the announcer sez. Not unreasonable. Video link was in a RAS post in 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqxZ3BOzlY Adding more rope just seems to give more of a curve to it due to drag. But with a long dry lake (El Mirage?) and a long bit of something thin like Spectra.... Jim 
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