Meet record-setting glider pilot Jim Payne! Along with Morgan Sandercock, Jim flew the Airbus Perlan II aircraft to a new claimed glider altitude record of more than 52,000 feet over southern Argentina in September 2017.
Thursday Nov 30, 2017
Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 7 PM Presentation is at the Clarion Inn, 901 N China Lake Blvd, Ridgecrest, CA, This is a Free Event and is Open to the Public.
Contact AIAA at CLaiaa@yahoo.com or call 760-371-5688 for additional informationEvening Presentation - "Gliding to the Stratosphere" with Jim Payne
The Perlan Project was founded by Einar Enevoldson in 1992 to explore using mountain waves and the Polar Night Jet to fly a sailplane into the stratosphere. In 2006, Einar and Steve Fossett proved this concept by flying the Perlan 1 glider to an altitude record of 50,727 feet in the Andes. Einar gave a memorable presentation in Ridgecrest in 2011 about this record flight. Join us to hear Jim Payne tell us about the Airbus Perlan II project, the Perlan II aircraft and the historic flight from El Calafate in the Patagonian Andes.
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
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American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics – China Lake Section
and the China Lake Museum FoundationWebsite
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