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My experiments on Glide Ratio (WIP)

47 Camero2K  3.3 years ago

Lately, I've been kinda obsessed with Glide Ratio and I try to achieve great glide ratios with my (non-propelled) designs.

Yesternight, I've achieved a new personal record of around 19 (calculated via a program taking lost altitude, time and speed as inputs, which I have to remember all to calculate :D), with a very very basic design that doesn't even have a high aspect ratio to begin with.

And here's the design: https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/67m985/Canard-Glider

You can improve my design if you want, feel free to play around, and if you tested it, also feel free to write results down here.

If I manage to pass this record, or make a high-performance design, I'll publish them under this topic.