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!