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The type of printable glider I'm actually referring to here is not an RC vehicle at all. It's just an glider with no electronics that you launch with a rubber band or throw.
Most gliders are unpowered aircraft, designed to soar using nothing but natural thermal updrafts and some really clever ...
Marine scientists have long marveled at how animals like fish and seals swim so efficiently despite having different shapes.
If you want to fly your model aircraft, consider whether you want a model with an electric or gas motor, an airplane with a rubber-band drive or a hand-thrown glider. Types ...
The fastest remote-controlled airplane flight ever recorded took place in 2018, with a top speed of 545 miles/hour. That’s 877 km/h, or Mach 0.77! What was the limiting factor, preventing the… ...
Today, Guillow’s is one of the largest model airplane manufacturers in the U.S., producing over 80 model kits and 14 glider types, all from their original Wakefield facility.
Patronus AI today released Glider, an open-source 3.8 billion-parameter language model that outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o-mini on several key benchmarks for judging AI outputs.
A remote control unit used to pilot model airplane gliders is being recalled because it can lose contact with the airplane's radio control within normal radio range limits. Spektrum AR6250 ...
Following NASA’s recent results with truss-braced wing airplanes and the benefits this could bring to full-sized airplanes, [Think Flight] figured that if it helps with those airplanes, perha… ...
Many readers may fondly recall building rubber-band-powered balsa wood model airplanes. While the things were kinda cool, they didn't fly for long, nor could they be remotely controlled. Such is ...