BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2018, 08:24

Wow, what a year for gliders (or is it sailplanes?)! First we have little RC gliders getting into the transonic territory and now manned gliders are exceeding even military altitude records! Simply amazing.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2018, 11:04

Very cool.
Also makes me wonder why more companies do not use high aspect wings like Diamond does and use less power.

Tim

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2018, 13:56

In cockpit video from the latest record flight. Awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhKlVC ... e=youtu.be

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2018, 22:01

https://futurism.com/perlan-2-glider-record-airbus/amp/

Username Protected · **Posted:** 05 Sep 2018, 00:37

Username Protected wrote:

https://futurism.com/perlan-2-glider-record-airbus/amp/

"an altitude of 76,000 feet …. broke the high-altitude human flight record, last set by Lockheed Martin’s U2 spy plane in 1989" For pity's sake, is there no fact-checking in journalism anymore? Humans have flown higher than that in rocket planes and jets since the 1950s. Besides being iconic, the U2 is significant only because it's subsonic, like the Perlan II. Other than balloons, every human flight that's gone higher has been supersonic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record

Username Protected · **Posted:** 05 Sep 2018, 10:25

yep, everything that i've seen coming from the Project itself specifies subsonic or the U2 specifically when talking about that "record". Frankly if thats the biggest error in a news article about a project like this I'm thinking they're doing OK...

Username Protected · **Posted:** 05 Sep 2018, 13:51

What a view

Username Protected · **Posted:** 11 Sep 2019, 13:08

The weather so far has not been terribly cooperative for this years campaign, but they are at the moment surfing up around 49,000 feet.

http://www.perlanproject.cloud/VirtualCockpit.html

Username Protected · **Posted:** 11 Sep 2019, 14:25

It's incredible what they're doing. I get the 'virtual cockpit' on my cell phone and get to keep up with every mission. Wish they had a live video/audio feed. I'm sure that would soak up quite a bit of energy they need other places.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Nov 2019, 19:38

Pretty cool video from the backseat of Perlan II as it soars past 66000ft. Whisper quite in there, almost eerie. Must have been a cool ride.

http://youtu.be/pRhKlVCgujE

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Nov 2019, 19:40

Username Protected wrote:

Pretty cool video from the backseat of Perlan II as it soars past 66000ft. Whisper quite in there, almost eerie. Must have been a cool ride.

http://youtu.be/pRhKlVCgujE

Looks cozy.

Pretty cool.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 15 Nov 2019, 18:50

Username Protected wrote:

Pretty cool video from the backseat of Perlan II as it soars past 66000ft. Whisper quite in there, almost eerie. Must have been a cool ride.

http://youtu.be/pRhKlVCgujE

Been there, done that. But still major league cool to do it without an engine!
And it is definitely cool. OAT at that altitude is around -70 C.

Just relooked at the display and it shows -59 C. A little warmer than where we usually flew.

Perlan II Sailplane