{"id":136637,"date":"2017-09-12T16:51:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T16:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/?p=136637"},"modified":"2017-10-14T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T12:46:50","slug":"engineless-airbus-perlan-rides-mountain-wave-winds-to-a-record-52000-feet-altitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/09\/engineless-airbus-perlan-rides-mountain-wave-winds-to-a-record-52000-feet-altitude.html","title":{"rendered":"Engineless Airbus Perlan rides mountain wave winds to a record 52,000 feet altitude"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Airbus Perlan Mission II, the world\u2019s first initiative to send an engineless aircraft to the edge of space,<\/a> made history yesterday in the Patagonia region of Argentina by soaring to over 52,000 feet and setting a new world altitude record for gliding.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are celebrating an amazing victory for aerospace innovation and scientific discovery today, and we\u2019re so thankful to all the volunteers and sponsors whose years of tireless dedication have made this achievement possible,\u201d said Ed Warnock, CEO of The Perlan Project. \u201cWe will continue to strive for even higher altitudes, and to continue our scientific experiments to explore the mysteries of the stratosphere. We\u2019ve made history, but the learning has just begun.\u201d<\/p>\n