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A short video (5 min) that shows most of the elements of a Perlan flight, using the X-Plane simulation. Watch the video on YouTube here.
The Soaring Society of America has just wrapped up its convention in Litte Rock, Arkansas. The Perlan Project was represented there by the project director, Einar Enevoldson, and other Perlan team members. This mockup cockpit has been made from the ‘production’ molds...
Morgan recently visited Omarama, New Zealand, to fly in the unique conditions and learn from some of the world’s top experts on wave flying. Omarama has a special connection to the Perlan Project as the team was based there for several seasons early in the project....
The Soaring Society of America is holding its annual convention in Little Rock, Arkansas on January 28-30 this year. The Perlan Project will be there with a new mockup of the forward fuselage. If you want to see if you fit in the cockpit, then this is a good chance to...
Our project meteorologist Elizabeth Austin took this picture of lenticular clouds over her house in Nevada yesterday. Lenticulars are important to glider pilots because they only occur when there is wave activity. Sometimes the wave might be too weak to support a...
The mold-building process has begun on the horizontal tailplane. This is the first of the “flying” aerodynamic parts to be started. It is proceeding in exactly the same way as the fuselage. First we cut a foam block with the CNC machine, then sand and paint it to make...