enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: rc sailplanes radio controlled glider

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Radio-controlled glider - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-controlled_glider

    A radio-controlled glider is a type of radio-controlled aircraft that normally does not have any form of propulsion. They are able to sustain continuous flight by exploiting the lift produced by slopes and thermals, controlled remotely from the ground with a transmitter. They can be constructed from a variety of materials, including wood ...

  3. Discus Launch Glider - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discus_Launch_Glider

    A Discus Launch Glider (DLG) is a radio controlled model sailplane launched using a 'discus launch' in which the glider is held by a wingtip and the flier rotates rapidly before release. Using this launching method, the average flier can achieve launch heights of greater than 100 feet (30 m), with contest competitors more than doubling that ...

  4. Radio-controlled aircraft - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-controlled_aircraft

    An RC flyer demonstrating knife edge flying. A radio-controlled aircraft (often called RC aircraft or RC plane) is a small flying machine that is radio controlled by an operator on the ground using a hand-held radio transmitter. The transmitter continuously communicates with a receiver within the craft that sends signals to servomechanisms ...

  5. Mark Smith (R/C modeling pioneer) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Smith_(R/C_modeling...

    In the early 1970s he built radio-controlled seagulls for the 1972 movie Jonathan Livingston Seagull. [2] [3] [4] In 1973, he set a new long-distance flying world record. His radio-controlled glider stayed in the air for thirteen hours, travelling for a total of 286 miles in 2286 laps around two pylons set 100m apart.

  6. Glider (sailplane) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(sailplane)

    Rolladen-Schneider LS4. (video) A glider sails over Gunma, Japan. A glider or sailplane is a type of glider aircraft used in the leisure activity and sport of gliding (also called soaring). [1][2] This unpowered aircraft can use naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to gain altitude.

  7. Torrey Pines Gliderport - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrey_Pines_Gliderport

    It was first established as a soaring site in 1930, and is the home to hang gliding, paragliding, radio-controlled model sailplanes, and full-scale man-carrying sailplanes. [3] It is listed as a National Landmark of Soaring of the National Soaring Museum, [ 4 ] a San Diego City Historical Site (#315), and a Model Aviation Landmark of the ...

  1. Ads

    related to: rc sailplanes radio controlled glider