Thread: Perlan
View Single Post
  #7  
Old February 23rd 13, 05:03 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Ramy
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 746
Default Perlan

On Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:34:09 PM UTC-8, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:47:43 PM UTC-7, Eric Greenwell wrote:

On 2/21/2013 9:12 AM, wrote:




What has happened to the Perlan project? Is the board of directors on vacation?








Essentially all components for the Perlan 2 high altitude gliders are




produced. The Board members and many others are working hard on raising




the funds required to complete the major assemblies (wings and fuselage)




for the Perlan 2 glider, it's flight testing, and the first expedition




to Argentina.








In the meantime, Windward Performance is focusing on producing the




DuckHawk and SparrowHawk gliders.








--




Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to




email me)




Greg Cole gave the Barnaby Lecture last year. Very interesting. SSA pledged funding for the GPS logging.



Frank Whiteley


Did they try to get Red Bull sponsorship? Didn't we all recently watch another high altitude record heavily sponsored by Red Bull? Just imagine the publication it will bring to soaring...

Ramy