alt Hacker NewsTraditionalcgliders are incredibly light, I doubt anything careying sufficient cargo will be able to do a 50:1 distance to altitude ratio.
Traditionalcgliders are incredibly light, I doubt anything careying sufficient cargo will be able to do a 50:1 distance to altitude ratio.
Glide ratio and weight are not related. Weight shifts the glide Polar to higher speeds and theoretically improves it slightly due to Reynolds effects.