Halifax Electric Flyers Association

The possibility of deploying sailplanes aka gliders on Mars, which would use atmospheric dynamics to keep the unpowered aircraft aloft.
"...will use several different flight methods, including simple static soaring when sufficient vertical winds are present. But they can also use a technique called dynamic soaring, which, like an albatross on a long journey, takes advantage of how horizontal wind speed often increases with altitude – a phenomenon particularly common on Mars."
https://news.arizona.edu/story/engineer ... xploration

That's very interesting for sure. Probably all of our rc glider pilot family members already knew this!

Well, it's news to me, and I follow such things on and off this Earth. The solar powered helicopter, Ingenuity, has performed fantastically on Mars, but an indefinite unpowered glider flight on Mars seems quite ambitious! Looking fwd to the high altitude Earth testing.