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I'm familiar with the basic principle behind infinigliders: control surfaces that make up a significant percentage of your plane's weight can lift it off without thrust. I'm trying to make an infiniglider that can put itself into orbit (with a little bit of ion assistance at the end), but I'm not very good with even regular planes. Is there anyone who has ever done a serious investigation of how to build efficient infinigliders that could offer me some advice?

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That's not technically an infiniglider, an infiniglider is a craft that can glide infinitely without any kind of thrust at all, even from control surfaces. They are a known bug and will probably be fixed with changes to the lift and drag simulation. I do, however, know the principle you're talking of, and IMO it's possible but difficult.

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