How high does your club tow?

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:10:42 -0700, markmocho53 wrote:

I am not connected with the Perlan Project, except as being friends with
many of the participants, so any errors in the above explanation are
mine alone. Best of luck to Perlan, and congratulations on the 62k
altitude flight!

I have even less connection to the project (if possible), but I was
curious about the rules for Absolute altitude records, so I visited the
FAI website and looked them up.

The rules only say 'climb more than 5000m above release height' and
(obviously) the claimed height must exceed the last claim by some margin.
I didn't look at that, so don't know what the margin is. So, as the most
recent flight released at about 40,000ft and got to 62000+, it just
boosted the record by around 10,000 ft.

Jolly Good Show, Chaps!


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