glide ratio

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English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Gliding flight

Noun[edit]

glide ratio (plural glide ratios)

(aviation) The instantaneous ratio of horizontal speed to rate of fall for a glider.
The maximum ratio of horizontal speed to rate of fall that a glider can maintain.

Usage notes[edit]

Some sources define glide ratio as reciprocal of the definition given above [1].

Related terms[edit]

glide number

Translations[edit]

instantaneous rate of fall

minimum rate of fall

Finnish: liitoluku

See also[edit]

lift-to-drag ratio

References[edit]

glide ratio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
“glide ratio”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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