One of the challenges of pressurizing a glider is that is there is no engine on board to run compressors, Warnock said. The Grob Egrett turboprop tows the Perlan 2 to 40,000-plus feet and releases it to catch the mountain waves as it continues to ascend. “It could fly on Mars if we had some way of transporting it to Mars.” “It’s the first successful pressurized glider … optimized for flight in extremely thin air,” Sandercock said. Warnock said they hope Perlan 2, which can be viewed at the Airbus exhibit at the intersection of Waukau and Wittman roads, will inspire children to pursue aviation and other STEM fields. The general public doesn’t see the awesomeness of that.” Warnock added: “It has a concentration of people who are most interested in planes, and they know it’s exciting that a plane without an engine can fly higher than the SR-71. “Oshkosh is the mecca for homebuilders and experimental aviation,” said Perlan 2 chief pilot Jim Payne.
When they decided to do a public flight demonstration, Oshkosh was the obvious choice. And there is a limited season for those, and they occur only in certain parts of the world. “In order to break the record, the glider needs to take advantage of the stratospheric mountain waves,” said Ed Warnock, CEO of The Perlan Project. But this year, due to COVID-19 and the international shipping situation, they decided to delay their record-breaking flight a year. Perlan 2 pilot Morgan Sandercock said the group always wanted to attend Oshkosh, but the timing of the fly-in convention coincides with the peak flying season in Argentina. The Perlan 2 glider, which will attempt to set the all-time world altitude record for wingborne flight in 2023, made its first public flight demo at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh on Tuesday. Perlan Project pilots Morgan Sandercock, Ed Warnock, and Jim Payne Top 10 Reasons to Attend for Non-Pilots.Top 10 Reasons Why Pilots Should Attend.The Airbus Perlan Mission II is an initiative to fly an engineless glider to the edge of space, higher than any other winged aircraft has operated in level, controlled flight, “to open up a world of new discoveries related to high-altitude flight, climate change and space exploration. ** GPS (Global Positioning System) is a network of satellites which we use to locate the exact position of airplanes, vehicles, ships, etc. Flight #38 was the longest (6.6 hours), coldest, and highest that Perlan 2 has flown.” “The maximum **GPS altitude was 52,172 feet which was about 1,000 feet above the necessary altitude for a new record. We’ve made history, but the learning has just begun.”Ī blog post by the Perlan Project team describing the event said: “We will continue to strive for even higher altitudes, and to continue our scientific experiments to explore the mysteries of the stratosphere. “We are celebrating an amazing victory for aerospace innovation and scientific discovery today, and we’re so thankful to all the volunteers and sponsors whose years of tireless dedication have made this achievement possible,” said Ed Warnock, CEO of The Perlan Project. It was not only the Perlan 2’s longest flight, but also the coldest with temperatures dropping to as low as -68C (-90F). The glider is equipped with dual-redundant oxygen rebreathers, a drogue parachute for rapid descent in the unlikely emergency, and a ballistic chute for a lower-altitude emergency descent. With an empty weight of 1,100 pounds, and a wing area of 262 square feet, the 84-foot span glider is incredibly light for the structural strength required for stratospheric flight. The pressurised aircraft weighs 1,800 pounds, which is about the same weight as the first VW Beetle car. It stayed airborne for approximately six hours and 25 minutes. The fibre-based aircraft was able to reach such a high altitude with the help of polar winds. The glider’s two pilots managed to surpass the previous record set in 2006 by 3%. An engineless glider soared to a record altitude of 52,172ft (15.9km) in the skies above the Patagonia region of Argentina.Ĭhief pilot Jim Payne and co-pilot Morgan Sandercock achieved the historic Perlan 2 flight from Comandante Armando Tola International Airport in El Calafate, Argentina.
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