While the Perlan Project has been hard at work during March, there isn’t much visible progress we can share on the blog. However, one item of research was reading Exploring the Monster by Robert F. Whelan. Exploring the Monster, Mountain Lee Waves: the Aerial Elevator...

You can now download the current work-in-progress simulation of the Perlan 2 glider from the x-plane.org web site.  You need to register a username on x-plane.org before you download the file.  You also need to have the X-Plane software. X-Plane is available from...

The Perlan has flown for the first time in the X-Plane simulator. It is possible to calculate stability derivatives and control power but you get a much more immediate impression of the plane by flying it, even in a simulation. It is immediately obvious that the...

  After more than a year of low activity, the Perlan project has secured fresh funding and is able to start construction on the Phase 2 glider.  Morgan Sandercock, a glider pilot from Australia, has agreed to fund the construction of the pressurised fuselage....