Only if there's enough wind shear between the aircraft and kite altitudes... kinda like dynamic soaring [0] but without the need for the aircraft to jump back a

Only if there's enough wind shear between the aircraft and kite altitudes... kinda like dynamic soaring [0] but without the need for the aircraft to jump back and forth between the two regions. You'd probably need to use a sailplane or something to get high efficiency flight at low speeds. I think it would be super dangerous, b/c in order to access the strongest differential wind speed, the craft would need to be very low to the ground (just a few meters). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring#Manned_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring#Manned_aircraf...