Perlan II - 90.000 ft with a glider

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No long introductions here, just a short description of and links to a noteworthy project (... saw this in New Scientist). Einar Enevoldson will attempt to ride stratospheric mountain waves and the Polar Vortex above Argentina up to 90.000 ft/ 27.5 km with a bespoke pressurized glider - and that's just "phase 2". Interesting detail: Air density at that height corresponds to the thin atmosphere at Mars, thus the design of the wings is very transferrable to even more ... shall we say "exotic" locales in the (hopefully) near future.

Project website.
Glider manfacturer.
 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/24/usa-space-glider-idUSL1N11U39N20150924
 
Hi,


the Perlan 2 design.
 

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Some test in south Argentina near El Calafate where they soared at 54kft after having been towed up to 44kft

https://youtu.be/0-tGMz-gxjI


Read also here: https://www.flyingmag.com/perlan-2-glider-continues-record-breaking-mission?enews082118
 
76kft and up to 1kft/min (+ the beauty of El Calafate site).

https://youtu.be/KE792Y9hyww

https://youtu.be/MACh09RLLu0
 

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