BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 Sep 2015, 13:52

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 Sep 2015, 15:51

Pretty cool. It will be fun to watch this one progress.

I wish they talked in the article about the human factors portion. How will they live? Pressurized cabin and suits I would guess but I don't know if you can pressurize for enough time without a power source. Heat? How long are these flight going to be? I would think it takes a long time to climb in a glider to FL900.

Phil

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 Sep 2015, 16:30

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Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 Sep 2015, 16:32

More details on their website:

http://www.perlanproject.org

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=perlan+2

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 Sep 2015, 17:53

I believe the perlan 1 is on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. It "only" went to 50,727ft in August of 2006.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 25 Sep 2015, 00:07

This glider was on display at the Reno Air Races.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 25 Sep 2015, 01:17

Username Protected wrote:

Pretty cool. It will be fun to watch this one progress.

I wish they talked in the article about the human factors portion. How will they live? Pressurized cabin and suits I would guess but I don't know if you can pressurize for enough time without a power source. Heat? How long are these flight going to be? I would think it takes a long time to climb in a glider to FL900.

Phil

I was in Redmond, OR building my airplane while this was being built at RDD. It's a cool project. They used the paint booth in Lancair to paint it and couldn't fit a single wing into the booth so they had to seal it up with tons of plastic.

FL900 In a Glider