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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.
"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
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...
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.
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