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Old 09-29-2015, 08:13 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Wind power transportation with no parasitic losses...Perlan 2

Spirit of Steve Fosset lives on as glider is poised to soar to 90,000ft

Redmond Oregon Municipal Airport saw first flight of the Perlan 2, which is intended to fly higher than the SR-71 Blackbird—without an engine. It is apparently the first sailplane with a pressurized cabin.

Forget getting electricity from the wind, squirting it over wires, and storing it in batteries that you have to lift into the sky. Of course there's only a few places in the world you could get to 90,00ft. But that's record-setting. And they will do it with fixed landing gear.

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