For photos see Thanks to Aero Club Lago Argentina, ANAC, EANA, LADE, PSA, El Calafate Torre, Comodoro Control, Egrett Team, and the Perlan Team for the outstanding support. Claiming World, South American, and US Absolute Altitude Records. We believe that this is the highest sustained flight by a winged, manned, subsonic aircraft. Did 15 flutter and flying qualities test points at FL650 and above so the climb was slowed. Airbus became a partner of the nonprofit, volunteer Perlan Project organization in 2014. The Perlan 1 glider is on display at the Seattle Museum of Flight. The Airbus Perlan Mission II team’s Phase 2. 2 near El Calafate, Argentina, edging out the high-flying U2 jet spy plane’s 73,737 feet and moving closer to the SR71 Blackbird’s 85,069 feet. The forecast was for good stratospheric wave. In August 2006, the Perlan 1 glider was flown by the late Steve Fossett and Einar Enevoldson, the project’s founder, to a glider-record-setting 50,772 feet at El Calafate, Argentina. Perlan 2 glider pilots Jim Payne and Tim Gardner rode an Andes mountain wave to an unofficial glider record of 76,124 feet pressure altitude Sept. Para las fotos vea - In English: Envelope expansion flight. Reclamando récords mundiales de altitud absolutos, sudamericanos y estadounidenses. Creemos que este es el vuelo sostenido más alto de un avión subsónico alado, tripulado. Hizo 15 puntos de prueba de aleteo y calidad de vuelo en FL650 y superiores, por lo que la escalada se ralentizó. El pronóstico fue para una buena onda estratosférica. - all USA -Įn español: Vuelo de expansión de sobre.And with its newest widebody plane, the A350, making its first flight in December followed by an upcoming revival of the longest flight in the world (19 hours, nonstop, if you were curious), Airbus is in full control of some of this year’s most innovative travel. Earlier last year, the company also released plans to stack passengers in a highly efficient, but slightly terrifying pattern. It recently filed a patent for a Concorde 2.0 to get travelers from New York to London in an hour. In the meantime, Airbus will have plenty to keep its engineers and designers busy. This puts Airbus alongside SpaceX and Virgin Galactic in the latest iteration of the space race. The Airbus-sponsored Perlan 2 stratospheric glider will carry a Thales FlytLink satellite communications terminal when in returns to flight, enabling real-time data downloads from altitudes. The company recently filed a patent for hypersonic passenger craft that will go to space and back, according to the Daily Mail. The Perlan 2 is just the entry point for Airbus, which has its sights set on space. It has the same weight as a 1967 Volkswagen Beetle. With an 84-foot wingspan, the Perlan 2 will also carry scientific instruments, life support, and two safety parachutes. This was the first test flight of the aircraft, which next year will attempt to set a new world altitude record for any airplane. 23 about 5,000 feet above Roberts Field, the Redmond Municipal Airport in Oregon. Once there, the pilot and co-pilot will have to wear an oxygen re-breather system, similar to the one used by astronauts. The Perlan 2 glider,an engineless aircraft designed to reach the edge of space, achieved its successful first flight Sept. It is designed to soar up to 90,000 ft., has an unladen weight of 1,540 lbs., and a wingspan of 84 ft. The Perlan 2 glider is made of carbon fiber composite material. (For reference, a commercial plane typically cruises at 35,000 feet.) To get to that altitude, the Perlan 2 will be towed to several thousand feet, then cut loose to coast on Argentinian mountain waves, or air currents above mountain ranges that can push a flight into the stratosphere. The pressurized glider flew to the edge of space to an altitude of an astonishing 76,000 ft. The glider is on its way to become the highest-flying aircraft in history, with the team hoping to reach altitudes of up to 90,000 feet using nothing but wind, which would put 98 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere beneath the Perlan 2. But this time, Airbus is aiming even higher (literally): The Airbus Perlan 2 glider, set to launch in June, will be the first engineless aircraft to fly at the edge of space. For a company that files patents constantly for tech and specs that travel geeks and sci-fi fans can only dream of, you would think it would have run out of ideas by now. Airbus joins Virgin Galactic and Space X in the next-gen space race.Īirbus is at it again.
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