Salut, Il s'agit de vol à voile grandeur. Voici ce que je viens de recevoir :
On 29 August 2006, famous aviator Steve Fossett set a gliding world record as part of the Perlan project. This record still stands today. Flying with former NASA test pilot Einar Enevoldson the pair hit an absolute altitude of 15,460m while flying in mountain wave above the Andes in Argentina.
Ten years later, and nine years since Fossett tragically died in a light aircraft accident, the Perlan II mission, still run by Enevoldson, is aiming to fly a pressurised glider to 90,000 feet, or 27,432m. The Perlan 2 team have been in Calafate, Argentina, since the beginning of August and plan to stay through September. “We are going to explore the edge of space without a polluting engine on the clean pure wings of a glider,” explains the Perlan 2 mission statement.
Etonnant, non ? Guy R.
