{"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":"https:\/\/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=\"680\" height=\"383\" 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=\"680\" height=\"383\" 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 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 [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7980,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/7980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}