{"id":6117,"date":"2025-01-08T21:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2025-01-11T18:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:21:04","slug":"motor-prop-and-battery-sizing-for-rc-glider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=6117","title":{"rendered":"Motor, prop and battery sizing for RC glider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a simple RC Glider to fly properly, you need to make sure the motors are powerful enough to sustain the weight. You also need to have a battery which is powerful while not so heavy.<\/p>\n<p>This video shows the glider equipped with weaker motors and smaller props:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RCPRESS vid improper glider config case 1\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/He6m0X0wm10?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>This video shows the glider equipped with a battery too heavy for its size:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RCPRESS vid improper glider config case 2\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S35-hs64uyE?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>This glider has 4 very powerful motors to support a strong but heavy battery:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RCPRESS vid 2ch plane flying to the moon\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QbTuq4CXDbo?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a simple RC Glider to fly properly, you need to make sure the motors are powerful enough to sustain the weight. You also need to have a battery which is powerful while not so heavy. This video shows the glider equipped with weaker motors and smaller props: This video shows the glider equipped with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117"}],"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=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6147,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions\/6147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}