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On Sunday, September 2, 2018 at 7:38:52 AM UTC-7, Dave Nadler wrote:
Live video now shows them hooking up to Egret on the ramp... http://www.perlanproject.cloud/VirtualCockpit.html 67,103'? Jim |
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I've got 68....do I hear 69...
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At 17:29 02 September 2018, Papa3 wrote:
I've got 68....do I hear 69... 69 and still climbing at 2-4 Kts.. |
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69 do I hear 70?
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I say 68.....,,"you do me, I owe you one.....".......LOL......crude joke.....
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On Monday, August 20, 2018 at 11:30:03 AM UTC-5, Tony wrote:
Perlan has climbed above release height. I believe the first soaring flight this season for them. http://www.perlanproject.cloud/VirtualCockpit.html 74,000 feet and climbing at 9 knots!!! Wow!!! Paul Remde |
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Instead of, "the sky is the limit", guess "space is the limit" now?!
Cool watching this. |
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76,124 ft. Pressure Altitude
74,295 ft. GPS Altitude Totally awesome flight for Pilot Jim Payne and Copilot Tim Gardner! |
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On Sunday, September 2, 2018 at 5:50:53 PM UTC-7, wrote:
76,124 ft. Pressure Altitude 74,295 ft. GPS Altitude Totally awesome flight for Pilot Jim Payne and Copilot Tim Gardner! Ho hum only 177.84 OLC points not that good of a flight. |
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On Sunday, September 2, 2018 at 5:50:53 PM UTC-7, wrote:
76,124 ft. Pressure Altitude 74,295 ft. GPS Altitude Totally awesome flight for Pilot Jim Payne and Copilot Tim Gardner! Amazing. That's well above the official highest U-2 altitude of 66800 ft in 1998 as well as Concorde's 1973 68000 ft record. Even the SR71's official 85069 is not far away if they can keep improving by 10000 ft every flight! (probably not, of course) |
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