Originally Posted by
Wizofoz
Would not be necessary with what I'm proposing- you'd climb in the increasing head wind, turn and descend, turn again and repeat- it's over thousands of feet, not the couple of hundred with lea-soaring.
Dont want to sound hostile or calling you out or anything (im genuinely interested) but are you planning on testing and flying in the jetstream or more like having an interesting hypothetical discussion about feasibility?... have you considered which of the two jetstreams (polar or subtropical jetstream) to fly in because the conditions seem quite different, or what kind of speeds you think you'd experience in terms of ground speed since the
JS moves relative to a fixed point on the ground (unlike those leeward DS gliders).
Just interested in this myself and plumbing the web for info.