Absolutely none; the fastest RC planes are, surprisingly, gliders. Dynamic soaring (DS) was first harnessed to propel model planes sometime in the mid 1990s. Since then, ...

RC Glider Flies By Twisting Its Wings October 20, 2015 by James Hobson 28 Comments Remote control gliders typically fly like their full-size counterparts.

No props, no jets, no rockets – California's Spencer Lisenby just broke the world speed record for remote controlled aircraft, taking an unpowered RC glider transonic at 548 mph (882 km/h) using ...

When the RC glider's pilot, identified as David Cortina, 57, was arrested at the scene, he refused to make a formal statement without consulting a lawyer and was held in custody overnight. At noon on ...

What is the fastest RC aircraft? Amazingly, gliders. The non-powered planes can, in skilled hands, whip up a speed of over 300 mph from a relatively slow wind. That’s a velocity of around 8x the ...

By flying in a continuous loop, first up the side of the hill and then back down again at a farther distance where the wind speeds are slower and create less resistance, an RC glider pilot can not ...

(One team claims a record of 357 mph with an RC glider using dynamic soaring.) Radio-controlled gliders do well at this technique because they carry no human pilots who must withstand the g forces.