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Airbus Perlan Mission II returns to Patagonia with the aim of breaking a record and flying to the 90 thousand feet of altitude.
Airbus Perlan Mission II, the world's first initiative to fly a non-powered aircraft to the edge of space, successfully completed a flight test campaign in the USA and gets ready to go back to Argentina.
The Perlan pressurized glider 2, which set the subsonic world record for altitude at more than 76.000 feet in 2018, sailed yesterday from the USA for the long journey to El Calafate, Argentina. On the Patagonian Andes, where weather conditions are optimal, expert pilots and engineers from the non-profit organization The Perlan Project will attempt to raise the experimental glider to its service roof of 90,000 pies.
"If a glider, that it is a truly zero emission aircraft, may become the highest flying plane of all time, sends a powerful message that aviation decarbonisation is not an impediment to achievement, and can even be a facilitator”, said C. Jeffrey Knittel, President and CEO of Airbus Americas.
Airbus Perlan II
As a research platform that does not emit gases, The pearl 2 it is ideal for the high-altitude atmospheric research the team will carry out to inform more accurate climate change models. The plane will rise to altitudes where the air density is similar to that of the Mars atmosphere., providing unique opportunities for aerodynamic studies related to turbulence, extreme weather and future space exploration.
The plane will also carry experiments designed by school students through The Perlan Project's STEM partnership with Teachers in Space..
Airbus began its primary sponsorship of The Perlan Project in 2014, which facilitated the completion of the construction of Perlan 2. the glider, descrito por Warnock como «una cápsula espacial con alas», it is equipped with sophisticated life support systems and instrumentation to ensure the safety of the pilot.
El avión es capaz de elevarse sin motor a sus altitudes récord gracias a corrientes de aire muy raras conocidas como «ondas de montaña estratosféricas», formed when mountain winds are strengthened by the polar vortex.
The Airbus Perlan Mission II team, made up of some of the aviation industry's most celebrated test pilots and world-renowned climate scientists, will carry out its flight campaign of 2023 from the end of July to mid-September, when stratospheric mountainous waves are most likely to occur in the southern hemisphere. After setting several successive records in previous years, the team went on hiatus during the pandemic COVID-19.
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