Minden Tahoe Airport has an Aviation RoundUp in August every year. This year, 2015, the Perlan 2 mockup was prominently displayed at the entrance along with a SoaringNV glider and towplane. Laurie Harden Ricardi & Silvio Ricardi from Soaring NV are longtime...
College professor Ed Warnock loves to show the Perlan 2 to interested folks. He especially delights in introducing youngsters to aviation.
A hangar that will house the Perlan 2 is under construction at the Minden Tahoe Airport. It will have an 85-foot door that will enable the Perlan 2 to go into the hangar fully assembled. The high altitude flight and envelope expansion testing of the Perlan 2...
August 6-8, 2015 Airbus Perlan Mission II was a sponsor of a Teachers in Space Professional Development workshop for STEM Teachers. Perlan Team member Dr. Michael Batalia, Ph.D. taught part of the workshop. He is a member of the Perlan Science and Education...
The opening ceremonies for the first ever 13.5 meter World Gliding Championships were on August 1, 2015. The competition is scheduled for two weeks, with the prize giving ceremony on August 15, 2015. Perlan Project Pilot Morgan Sandercock is there flying his...
The Perlan 2 glider on display under the wing of the new Airbus A350 was a huge success at Oshkosh. CNN Travel even ranked it #3 as not-to-be-missed "Wow" displays at AirVenture 2015. (See press section of website for a link.) That is a podium finish behind the...
Team Perlan worked hard at AirVenture 2015. But we had an amazing sense of accomplishment throughout the week. It was gratifying to share with other experimental aviators and earn their peer recognition. Ed Warnock Stéphane Fymat Dennis Tito Jim Payne Douglas Perrenod...
The Airbus Perlan II on display at Oshkosh under the Airbus A-350. July 2015
On the first morning of EAA AirVenture 2015 the team gave a presentation about Perlan 2. Ken McKenzie from Airbus, Stephane Fymat, Ed Warnock, Jim Payne, and Dennis Tito spoke to a good size crowd. History, build, test plans, weather, education and Argentina...
Several of Perlan 2 sponsors and donors were on hand at Oshkosh to get a first look at the new glider.
When we think there's wave we will always try to fly Perlan 2. However it is winter, and we are not that far from Antartica. Jim spotted an iceberg in the lake near the airport when we first arrived. On July 25, 2017 Airbus Perlan Mission II had lots of surface wind...
Perlan2's first wave flight over Patagonia was July 24, 2017. Tim Gardner was able to capture the unparalleled beauty of the lakes, mountains, and clouds of Patagonia. The first photo shows the town of El Calafate in bottom right. Tim uses a full tint visor which Alec...
On Monday July 24, 2017 the Airbus Perlan Mission II team went all out to make a wave flight happen. The balloon team launched early and their data confirmed it was marginal for wave. We like winds from the west but there was a significant band of wind from the north...
Saturday July 22, 2017 Who flew today? If you guessed Jim, Tim or Morgan you would be wrong. And Miguel is due next week. So who flew? The answer would be Tago and Loris in a nice Airbus Eurocopter. Loris and Morgan were working on a misbehaving accelerometer in the...
There is so much behind the scenes work done to support or enhance every Perlan 2 flight. Telemetry is a major emphasis for Morgan Sandercock. And you must collect that in flight data through an antenna and wires to computers. 2017 had us eagerly waiting for Morgan's...
On July 18, 2017 Airbus Perlan Mission II took to the skies over Patagonia. Jim Payne and Tim Gardner in Perlan 2 made a short check flight with no expectation to try for altitude. There are so many integral components to a successful high altutude wave flight. All...