Alan,the tethered IC Cars started during WW2,it was forbidden to fly model aircraft with petrol engines, which were beginning to come over from America,what people did to keep the engines running was build tethered cars,some of them had aluminium beaten body shells and were based on the old Brooklands type racers.
The 'Aeromodeller' magazine did a few articles on these cars,and even today they have a following and models demand high prices at auction.
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Originally Posted by alan2525 I was looking at an old plans catalogue dated 1963, the models suitable for R/C where all great boxes of things, the remainder being control line or free flight. It was rather scary thinking of IC powered cars controlled by a tether or nothing other than a piece of stout string and a peg in the ground.
The miniaturisation of electronics in R/C has really opened up lots of new avenues, and the current trend for Robot's on TV shows has made the kinds of equipment more widely available too. |