{"id":4503,"date":"2022-11-26T15:50:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T15:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:16:25","slug":"simple-rc-glider-long-flight-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=4503","title":{"rendered":"Simple RC Glider long flight video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This simple glider has been upgraded with larger 820 coreless motors and slightly larger props. Still running on 1S.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ph1Mq2-fDSk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To compensate for the lack of ailerons and other control surfaces, the plane often uses wings with a pronounced dihedral angle. While this improves stability, it reduces aerodynamic efficiency and can limit the plane&#8217;s speed and performance. Stronger motors are always needed to make the plane flyable.<\/p>\n<p>This glider uses 60mm props VS the stock 50mm props:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RCPRESS vid gliding under \ud83c\udf1e\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VNV6nN3coJ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RCPRESS vid RC Glider on Keens Field Hemel Hempstead UK\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eilUN6yB2r0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple glider has been upgraded with larger 820 coreless motors and slightly larger props. Still running on 1S. To&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-tip-plane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7980,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/7980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}