More details coming, but needed to start posting some pictures! Day started with interviews, including Morgan Sandercock of the Perlan Project (and extraordinary glider pilot with an almost poetic bent…a mesmerizing interview). The Perlan Project hopes to exploit a theoretical maximum height for mountain waves to soar to an altitude of 90,000 feet using a glider with a fully-pressurized cockpit. This will, hopefully, enable them to achieve several new records, including absolute height records for aircraft, powered or not, in sustained level flight at 90K, as well as provide a new tool for high atmospheric research for meteorology and climatology.
The afternoon started with Tracy Miller’s forum, “Towards an Oral History of Aviation”, with sparkling panel discussion by Mel Smith and other volunteers. We had a fairly good attendance, considering we were opposite Dick Rutan, and met several people who were interested in the program. Will post slides from talk when the annotations are complete.
