Hang glider flight10/5/2023 With hopes of beating 2018’s record, the Airbus Perlan Mission II project team and Perlan 2 glider are currently in El Calafate and have restarted the flights. Read more about the science of the flight. Your tandem experience will have you secured in a harness suspended from the airframe as you and your pilot soar through the sky following the light aircraft tow. The aircraft’s wings designed to be able to fly in less than 3% of normal air density and at temperatures of minus 70 degrees C, conditions approximating the surface of Mars. Hang gliding is a non-motorized form of human flight where a pilot controls the hang glider by shifting his weight. Enthusiasm was the hallmark of the event that started it all, a celebration of early aviator Otto Lilienthal, who few more than 2,000 glider flights. The Perlan Project’s Mission II aim is to reach the edge of space at 90,000 feet (27.4km) in this purpose-built pressurised glider, by using stratospheric mountain waves, which are particularly strong in Patagonia, above the Andes.Īs the glider is flying above the Armstrong Line, the altitude at which humans cannot survive unless protected, the crew use a specially designed closed-loop rebreather system, in which the only oxygen used is what the crew metabolizes. The unique aircraft was flown by US pilots Jim Payne and Tim Gardner. The flight took place in El Calafate, Patagonia in Argentina, and was the third time in just a few days that the glider flew above the altitude of its own previous world record, set in 2017. One year ago, on September 2nd 2018, the Perlan 2 soared into the record books by reaching 76,000 feet (23km), the highest altitude ever reached by a glider. Control is by weight-shift, with roll control augmented by wing top-surface spoilers. 1 The Exxtacy wing is based upon a carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer cantilever box spar, with ribs and wing tips, also of the same material.
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