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September 1st 06, 08:18 AM
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Perlan Goes to 50,000+
FYI...yesterday, Aug 30th, in South America.... Perlan
obtained 50,700 feet... here is the site: http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/perlan-e.html Shawn 
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September 1st 06, 12:00 PM
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Perlan Goes to 50,000+
Shawn Knickerbocker wrote: FYI...yesterday, Aug 30th, in South America.... Perlan obtained 50,700 feet... here is the site: http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/perlan-e.html Was amazed to see it was a pretty standard DG505 (or DG500 - depends which site you read!) like we have available at our club. Bigger wings, and I have no idea how they crammed in the space suits, but still a good old DG505!
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September 1st 06, 10:05 PM
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Perlan Goes to 50,000+
Cats wrote: Shawn Knickerbocker wrote: FYI...yesterday, Aug 30th, in South America.... Perlan obtained 50,700 feet... here is the site: http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/perlan-e.html Was amazed to see it was a pretty standard DG505 (or DG500 - depends which site you read!) like we have available at our club. Bigger wings, and I have no idea how they crammed in the space suits, but still a good old DG505! It doesnt really take that special of a glider to go high does it? Its all about the upward velocity of the air minus the sink rate of the ship? Sure it is nice to have a high Vne speed for wave flying and a wide range between stall and flutter for high altitude. my question is why didnt they fly downwind to the atlantic after reachign 50,000!?
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