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February 12th 16, 11:45 PM
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Glider Racing in the future
On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 8:10:30 AM UTC-6, Dave Springford wrote:
Soaring of the future is here - a completely autonomous RC glider has flown a 113.4 km (70.47 mi) open distance. It has also unofficially broken the cross-country soaring out-and-return world record by flying 97.2 km (60.4 mi) declared distance over approximately 4.55 hr. All the details are in the paper from the US Naval Research Lab that you may read he http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA614555 I would rather we not allow soaring autopilots in the cockpits of racing sailplanes. Guess that makes me a Luddite. 
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