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Post by conman on Aug 27, 2018 19:40:19 GMT 12
The Perlan Project glider has achieved soaring flight of over 60,000ft a new world record in South America, the tow was quite high however , over 40,000ft ! m.facebook.com/PerlanProject/ |
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Post by exkiwiforces on Aug 27, 2018 20:12:44 GMT 12
The tow aircraft looks an interesting beast as does the glider.
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Post by conman on Aug 29, 2018 15:48:40 GMT 12
The tow aircraft looks an interesting beast as does the glider. Yeah the Grob Egrett high altitude reconaisance aircraft, 40,000 is a heck of a tow, looks like today they increased the record to over 65,000 which is pretty impressive |
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Post by conman on Sept 3, 2018 20:31:42 GMT 12
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Post by noooby on Sept 4, 2018 11:06:39 GMT 12
Can you imagine towing to 40k??
In rotor!!!
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Post by markrogers on Sept 12, 2018 9:40:20 GMT 12
The Perlan Glider's cockpit looks quite small and tight, with flush windows and no forward views. Quite impressive though with it's altitude record and that tow plane does look an impressive beast too.
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