#dynamicsoaring — Public Fediverse posts

Joe Manor's protype glider is successfully ridge soaring.

This prototype is a 'foamy'...very light, very low wing loading. (For the speed record attempt it will be a larger glider, much heavier, much higher wing loading.)

1st Successful Flights Recap
https://youtu.be/yVYNGoMCRk0?t=171

#Aviation #Avgeek #Supersonic #Aerodynamics #Glider #DynamicSoaring #RidgeSoaring

Dynamic soaring - a way for birds, such as the albatross, to fly long times and distances without flapping their wings...and a way for RC gliders to go very, very fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring

A new design will attempt new speed records in the coming months. Perhaps go supersonic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC1jrMMVxd4

Joe Manor has been doing this for years. Here's a flight from 2013 with a more traditional glider design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4OGUYlx_28

#AvGeek #Aviation #ElectricAircraft #ExperimentalAviation #Homebuilt #Glider #DIY #DynamicSoaring #SuperSonic #Aerodynamics

'Dynamic Soaring' Trick Could Speed Spacecraft Across Interstellar Space

https://www.sciencealert.com/dynamic-soaring-trick-could-speed-spacecraft-across-interstellar-space
#DynamicSoaring #Interstellar #Spaceprobe #Spaceship #Space Craft

New research unlocks clues about the iconic flight of the #WanderingAlbatross
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-clues-iconic-flight-albatross.html

Observations and models of across-wind flight speed of the wandering #albatross https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211364

#WanderingAlbatrosses limit their maximum across-wind airspeeds to ~ 20 m/s in higher wind speeds (and greater wind turbulence), probably to keep the aerodynamic force on their wings during #DynamicSoaring well below the mechanically-tolerable limits of wing strength.

Dynamic soaring as a means to exceed the solar wind speed
( surfing the solarsystem heliopause to approach 2% c within two anda half years)

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frspt.2022.1017442/full

Prior article (PDF file)
https://t.co/BjAWaIeqdN
#AtomicRockets #SpaceShip #SpaceCraft #DynamicSoaring

Dynamic Soaring: 545 MPH RC Planes Have No Motor - The fastest remote-controlled airplane flight ever recorded took place in 2018, with a top speed of ... - https://hackaday.com/2020/09/24/dynamic-soaring-545-mph-rc-planes-have-no-motor/ #dynamicsoaring #aerodynamics #engineering #dronehacks #rcairplane #albatross #featured #glider