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RC Glider Achieves Speed Record of 548mph!
Avweb.com reported that Spencer Lisenby piloted a heavily reinforced composite RC glider to nearly Mach 1 speed over a mountaintop near Los Angeles on Jan. 19. How did he do this? He was engaged in a gliding discipline known as dynamic soaring. “The Santa Anna winds were blowing at 65 MPH up the slope of Parker Mountain, setting up the correct conditions for dynamic soaring. By performing loops that exploit the boundary layers of the...
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