Airbus' Perlan 2 glider is continuing to push the limits of engineless flight, hitting a succession of record altitudes throughout the last week, culminating in a unprecedented 76,000-ft (23,000-m) ...

Flying well into the stratosphere to set a record for the highest manned flight takes guts. Doing it in a glider takes skilled engineers, pilots, and atmospheric scientists, elusive weather conditions ...

High-altitude aerospace research nonprofit Perlan Project plans this year to take another shot at flying its Perlan 2 glider to a record 90,000ft, after which it intends to terminate that flight-test ...

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The Perlan Mission, initiated by Einar Enevoldson, aims to set extreme altitude records for gliders by harnessing mountain waves to reach the stratosphere. After the Perlan I broke the 50,000-foot ...

If nobody had told me beforehand that the Perlan 2 glider plane was about to make history, I never would’ve guessed there was anything special about it. As I watched it gently lift off from the runway ...

The Perlan 2 sailplane/glider, which had its first test flight last September in Oregon, will attempt to reach its optimal cruising altitude of 90,000 feet as early as this coming June in Argentina, ...

[Avionics Today 08-23-2016] The Airbus Perlan II stratospheric glider is currently en route to Argentina for its mission, to set a new world gliding high-altitude record by soaring to 90,000 feet. Now ...