September 23, 2015 at 9:30am Pacific: MEDIA Q&A WEBCAST With Pilots, Team That Made Aviation History Today Achieving Successful First Flight of Airbus Perlan Mission II Glider
September 23, 2015 | By Business Wire News
REDMOND, Ore.
The Perlan 2 glider, the world’s first engineless aircraft designed to reach the edge of space, has taken off for its first flight this morning to an altitude of 5,000 feet — a historic moment in global aviation as it’s the first critical milestone in the Airbus Perlan Mission II journey to break a world record for any airplane by soaring the glider to 90,000 feet next year in Argentina.
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By achieving that success, the Perlan 2 glider will be able to do research that has never before been possible in the highest areas of the atmosphere, thereby opening up a world of new discoveries related to aeronautics, climate change and space navigation.
The Perlan 2 glider has been developed by The Perlan Project, a volunteer-run, nonprofit endeavor headed by leaders in aerospace and engineering, supported by Airbus Group and a group of other sponsors that includes Weather Extreme Ltd., United Technologies, and BRS Aerospace.
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WEBCAST of Media Q&A: |
To be held at 9:30am PT following historic first flight of Perlan 2 glider with pilots, top executives from Perlan Project and Chairman and CEO of Airbus Group Inc. Allan McArtor. This Q&A will be streamed live from hangar at Robert’s Field, Redmond Airport in Redmond, Oregon. |
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HD B-Roll: |
Webcast will also include HD footage of the glider showing the key moment of its history-making first flight — when the glider begins flying on its own as detached from lead plane. | |
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A full B-ROLL/SOT package will be available for download following the Media Q&A at www.airbusgroup.com/Perlan. |
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WHO: |
Media Q&A participants will include: |
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• Allan McArtor, Chairman and CEO of Airbus Group, Inc. |
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• Einar Enevoldson, Founder and Chairman of the Board, The Perlan Project, chief pilot of Perlan 1 that broke world altitude record for gliders in 2006 with Steve Fossett |
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• Ed Warnock, CEO of The Perlan Project |
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• Jim Payne, Chief Pilot, Perlan 2 |
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• Morgan Sandercock, Co-pilot, Project Manager, Perlan 2 |
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• Stephane Fymat, Board Member, The Perlan Project |
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WHERE: |
WEBCAST will be available at http://bit.ly/Perlan2Webcast9-23-15 |
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B-ROLL will be available under “Press Kit” at www.airbusgroup.com/perlan |
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PRESS KIT: |
Downloadable infographic, still images/illustrations, fact sheet and more available at www.airbusgroup.com/perlan under “Press Kit” |
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SOCIAL: |
Please follow activities and updates for Airbus Perlan Mission II on Twitter: |
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@PerlanProject |
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| #Perlan2 | ||
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