Argentina and California have approximately the same population, but Argentina is over five times larger. Over a third of the population live in Buenos Aires, Over three-fourths live in cities over 100,000. This is all to say that Argentina is a vast land of...
August 27 dawned clear and calm so aeriel reconnassiance was in order. German, an instructor from Aero Club Largo Argentino took Jim and Miguel up scouting several landing strips. They took off from El Calafate on the shore of Lago Argentino. They headed west toward...
The Perlan Team visited two schools in two days in two cities in Argentina. Tago, Morgan, and Cholo (Argentine tow pilot and soaring record holder) visited an elementary school in Mendoza. The next morning Jim Kuhl (Teachers in Space), Miguel Iturmendi, and Martin...
The Perlan Team will be very comfy in El Calafate, Argentina. Eduarado and Patricia have been extremely welcoming to the team with their cabins. The wave cloud photos are from Eduardo too! Beautiful shots over the lake at sunset and with dark, roiling rotor...
August 22, 2016 - The Airbus Perlan Press Briefing was a smash hit, home run, hat trick, record setting event. Airbus and Jeffery Group arranged for real time simultaneous translations. If the speaker was in English, you could wear an ear piece and could hear...
Ed and Linda Warnock along with college intern Alec Quay have been the Perlan advance party in Buenos Aires. Ed has been interviewed by several big newspapers including La Nacion. Perlan was mentioned on their front page with the body of the article in...
Perlan School Experiment: Tin Whiskers From the Teachers In Space Second Quarter 2016 Newsletter By Aditya A.& Nicolas M. 8th Grade Students What do you think of when you hear the phrase tin whiskers? At first you may think that they have something to do...
Dr. Elizabeth Austin, the lead Meteorologist for the Perlan Project has released a book: Treading On Thin Air: Atmospheric Physics, Forensic Meteorology, and Climate Change: How Weather Shapes Our Everyday Lives. In the book, Dr. Austin has extensive...
July 7, 2016 was Perlan 2 loading day. The all up weight of loaded container was about 17,000 pounds or 8,000 kg. (Jim and Greg split the betting pool on all up weight.) The team in photo from the right Jim, Stewart, Greg, Doug, Morgan, and Jackie have put in...
Loading Day for Perlan 2 glider at Minden! Thanks to awesome preparation and planning by the Mindenites we were ready to pack the trailer into the pre-loaded container. In front of container Greg had built a shelf to hold 4 boxes of supplies off the floor....
On September 15 the Perlan container departed El Calafate, Argentina and on November 6 it arrived two months and over 12,000 kilometers later in Minden, Nevada. It was a excellent trip in the hands of some great companies. Tribal Trucking took it 3500 kilometers...
On November 4, 2017 the Pacific Soaring Council (PASCO) hosted it's 50th anniversary seminar and dinner. This was at the Sequoia Yacht Club just south of San Francisco. Perlan Project was represented by Jim and Jackie Payne as the banquet speakers. Since it was an...
On October 7-8, 2017 the Minden Tahoe Airport hosted an Aviation Roundup (Extravaganza) with the Air Force Thunderbirds as the headline event. In two days 31,000 aviation minded folks came through the gates! Perlan Project had our simulator available for those who...
A world record is more than accomplishing the desired feat. A world record claim must document the data and prove that the pertinent rules were followed. A major component of verification is the flight data recorders. Thanks to Professsor Simone D'Amico and the Space...
Airbus Perlan Mission II was well represented In Buenos Aires from September 18-22 by Morgan and Sandra Sandercock. They made a presentation to the Argentina Air Force Research and Development division. There was a lot of interest in what Perlan had accomplished and...
When many of the Perlan team departed El Calafate, the weather was not safe for the tow plane to fly. Cholo was able to fly out from El Calafate on Monday. He was happy to be back in Roca with Chela.They have been married almost 60 years. Tago and Cholo had...