On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 6:18:10 PM UTC-4, OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net wrote:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0920101605.htm

With this technology could anyone win a soaring contest?

Expiring minds want to know. ;-)

Centering thermals is one thing.
Finding them and connecting them for long flight is another. To do that they will have to develop methods to read the ground, as well as clouds. This seems to me to be a couple orders of magnitude harder.
What is described has been done before and doesn't sound new.
UH