As I understood it, the space shuttle had a very good glide ratio at its
best L/D. 60 to 1 at a speed of around 600 kt.
Roger Browne
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>>Not sure what L/D his team achieved, but it's quite an interesting episode
Somewhat typically for James May, the glider was the type that he
would have made as a kit in the 60's… so it was a wood and fabric
glider of fairly traditional type. After the performance of this was
discovered to be
James May did a similar experiment in the UK a few years ago - getting a
balsawood glider to fly across the English Channel.
http://vimeo.com/68033138
Not sure what L/D his team achieved, but it's quite an interesting
episode
Thanks & Regards,
Nelson Handcock
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http://www.linke
Or a house brick
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[mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Peter Champness
Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2014 9:07 PM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding International
" A Guinness Book record flight from 96,000 feet. A model glider flies 132
klms after being released from a Balloon in an interesting US Airforce
Academy experiment."
L/D= 4.5 Not exceptional even for a model. Maybe it was a model of the
space shuttle.
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