Word: tethered
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Inventor Bleecker tied a rope to the keel of the little machine inside its hangar at Valley Stream, Long Island. Then he started the motor, entered the cockpit, gently opened the throttle. The craft rose vertically from the hangar floor, hovered under the roof at the end of its tether, settled lightly to the floor again...