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🦅 Condor Glide Polar and MacCready Speed-to-Fly: Thermal Hop Lab

An Andean condor crosses a 24 km valley by gliding between thermals: glide polar, circling bank angle, thermal centring and the MacCready speed-to-fly rule, with a sweep that finds the fastest setting.

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An Andean condor crosses a 24 km valley by gliding between thermals: glide polar, circling bank angle, thermal centring and the MacCready speed-to-fly rule, with a sweep that finds the fastest setting.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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