THE VIDEO SHELF · dynamic soaring
BTD10: The 835kph Sailplane and Dynamic Soaring
Spencer Lisenby explains dynamic soaring, a technique that lets unpowered radio-controlled gliders reach speeds above 835 kph. He covers the physics and the design, build and flying challenges.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a detailed, wonderful explanation of the physics of dynamic soaring and record-speed RC gliders.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TNG Technology Consulting GmbH
- Topic
- dynamic soaring
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Adding to that, here's slope soaring, which is really cool. I haven't really done a lot of this due to having to travel far to have access to this type of geography. Beautiful silent flight, no motors required. They do add motors to some of …
robomartin on Hacker News · 2022-09
In Create an Inexpensive Flying Wing / Drone (2019)Here's a really wonderful talk by Spencer Lisenby about the basic physics and Lisenby's work on pushing the speed [VIDEO] Some other interesting HN comments: [LINK] [LINK]
jessriedel on Hacker News · 2023-12
In Dynamic Soaring
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