Trans Atlantic flight, anybody?

An article in New Scientist, about the Gulf Stream:
http://environment.newscientist.com/...f-hot-air.html

This says that its northern edge is often marked by a line of clouds,
kicked off by the thermal edge between cold North Atlantic water and the
warm Gulf Stream. That made me wonder if the cloud street ever stretches
right across the Atlantic and, if it does, would it be strong enough
and persist long enough to allow a glider to make the crossing.

It would be a helluva flight!


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:34:16 +0000, Martin Gregorie
wrote:

An article in New Scientist, about the Gulf Stream:
http://environment.newscientist.com/...f-hot-air.html

This says that its northern edge is often marked by a line of clouds,
kicked off by the thermal edge between cold North Atlantic water and the
warm Gulf Stream. That made me wonder if the cloud street ever stretches
right across the Atlantic and, if it does, would it be strong enough
and persist long enough to allow a glider to make the crossing.

It would be a helluva flight!

Depends on your glider's ETOPS range...;-)

rj

On Mar 13, 12:34*am, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
An article in New Scientist, about the Gulf Stream:http://environment.newscientist.com/...f-streams-secr...

This says that its northern edge is often marked by a line of clouds,
kicked off by the thermal edge between cold North Atlantic water and the
warm Gulf Stream. That made me wonder if the cloud street ever stretches
right across the Atlantic and, if it does, would it be strong enough
and persist long enough to allow a glider to make the crossing.

It would be a helluva flight!

Have you floated this idea in front of Z7?

On 13 Mar, 00:34, Martin Gregorie wrote:

This says that its northern edge is often marked by a line of clouds,
kicked off by the thermal edge between cold North Atlantic water and the
warm Gulf Stream. That made me wonder if the cloud street ever stretches
right across the Atlantic and, if it does, would it be strong enough
and persist long enough to allow a glider to make the crossing.

It would be a helluva flight!

Damn. No Steve Fossett around to do it.

Ian

On Mar 12, 8:52*pm, Ralph Jones wrote:

Depends on your glider's ETOPS range...;-)

Ah, yes, ETOPS:

Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim

Bob K.

Trans Atlantic flight, anybody?

Yeah, you first.

Chris

On Mar 13, 10:14 am, chris wrote:
Trans Atlantic flight, anybody?

Yeah, you first.

Chris

Hey, my sister wrote that article!

Cats wrote:
On Mar 13, 12:34 am, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
An article in New Scientist, about the Gulf Stream:http://environment.newscientist.com/...f-streams-secr...

This says that its northern edge is often marked by a line of clouds,
kicked off by the thermal edge between cold North Atlantic water and the
warm Gulf Stream. That made me wonder if the cloud street ever stretches
right across the Atlantic and, if it does, would it be strong enough
and persist long enough to allow a glider to make the crossing.

It would be a helluva flight!

Have you floated this idea in front of Z7?

Nah, first mention is here. I think its unlikely that you'd ever get a
continuous lift line over the distance and the chance that, having
formed, it would persist long enough to make the flight is essentially
zero. It makes a nice pipe dream though.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

Ian wrote;
"Damn. No Steve Fossett around to do it.

Ian"

and....maybe he is??

"Ian" wrote in message
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On 13 Mar, 00:34, Martin Gregorie wrote:

This says that its northern edge is often marked by a line of clouds,
kicked off by the thermal edge between cold North Atlantic water and the
warm Gulf Stream. That made me wonder if the cloud street ever stretches
right across the Atlantic and, if it does, would it be strong enough
and persist long enough to allow a glider to make the crossing.

It would be a helluva flight!

Damn. No Steve Fossett around to do it.

Ian

The glider flight would be more like
Early Termination Of Planned Sortie.
Jim

On Mar 13, 8:59 am, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Mar 12, 8:52 pm, Ralph Jones wrote:

Depends on your glider's ETOPS range...;-)

Ah, yes, ETOPS:

Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim

Bob K.