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by quickthrowman 1949 days ago
> Tow planes and gliders routinely fly with a disconnecting cable between two aircraft, and that seems at least as impractical and unsafe (or it would if you were proposing it as a new idea). Though maybe that's the sort of thing that's "grandfathered in" from earlier, more permissive days of experimental aviation.

A tow cable does not have live electrical conductors in it.