The glider for flights on space border successfully passed tests

In the USA passed successful flight tests capable to reach glider space. The device flew by over the State of Oregon, reports Reuters.

The piloted glider of Perlan 2 reached height in one and a half kilometer. The success of these tests opens a way to flight in a stratosphere (on height of 27 thousand meters) which is planned for 2016. If flight appears successful, Perlan will break all records of height for winged aircraft.

On Perlan 2 start (wingspan at it makes about 25 meters) it is towed by ordinary plane, however already in air the glider works independently – it speeds up also height at the expense of wind power.

The Perlan Project non-profit organization is engaged in designing and tests of a glider, and financial support (at the rate about five million dollars) to the project is rendered by the Airbus company. All works were assumed by volunteers.

«Us ask проспонсировать the most various enterprises, but this time we were involved by courage of the project – to fly on a glider on atmosphere and space border, and also competence of team», – the representative of corporation Allen Makartor (Allen McArtor) noted.

In 2016 of Perlan 2 are going to start at the bottom of the Argentina Andes that will allow a glider to move by means of atmospheric waves at big height. «We got used to think that in a stratosphere it there are not enough weather phenomena, but not so. The largest wind waves on a planet rise in a stratosphere», – project manager Ad Uornok (Ed Warnock) declared.

Though the purposes of the Perlan project remain purely scientific, device flights with speed of 600 kilometers per hour are theoretically capable to benefit and in commercial aircraft construction, for example, in creation of technologies of suborbital flight.