Boost Gliders

Nope.

Hmmm. Not offhand.

The two HPR RC gliders that I have seen are pretty interesting.

First is the X-30. A very large model of the NASA concept. Powered by an L motor and flown at the last two LDRS's. Very nice and flies pretty well for its size.

Then there was the case of an individual who insisted on making his level 1 certification flight using a glider (I use that term loosely) of his own design. He failed three times.

This is not RC but could be made that way. Mine is in the second row, on pad

1. This runs on 29mm.
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   Happy Flying! Mike Dickinson

This site looks like it's in transition, but it used to have a number of mid-power (D-G) kits & plans:

If you want an RC glider design that is adaptable to HPR, check out John Kallend's LadyHawk. The original is designed to fly on 1 or 2 24mm motors, and I've seen it take off on an F39 like a bat-out-of-hell! A club member scaled it up 50% for G motors. A 2X scale up should be just about right for flying on H motors.

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The uncovered 1.5X ladyhawk can be seen at

How about kit bashing an Estes Strato-Blaster? I have a the earlier version which is not quite as RTF as the recent ones. It's kinda big and heavy and might adapt well to a 29mm update. If you are interested, contact me privately and I might be willing to negotiate something as I have lost interest in the kit. It is complete and unbuilt.

Nope, there have been some folks who built/flew big high power gliders. For instance, at LDRS last year someone had a huge X-30 model that was powered by an L or M motor, with glider recovery.

How about a 10X upscale of the Estes Orbital Transport?

Sweet. Since LDRS is in NY or AL It looks like RocStock for you.

Hello Bill,

We need to get you to meet Astron Mike...

Him and Chris Taylor... :-)

Best, Andy

Cool! At that size, it ought to be easy to rig up a R/C fired motor for the glider... maybe a long burning AT R/C reload.

Here is Jason Ware's site with an upscale OT on a I, with an R/C Glider

AMA regs prohibit launching rockets from RC craft, not RATO

You can upscale the plan from RCMModeler 'RUSSIAN CP-1'

not a bad flyer on 'E' power as-is, and can cluster the 24mm if you want.

much better than the Estes gliders to get your feet wet before going larger.

If you can't cut your own cores, you could find a precut core for something else and scale from there.

How does one sand an airfoil?

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