{"id":118776,"date":"2021-01-22T18:23:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T02:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/experimental-glider-smashes-record-for-high-altitude-flight"},"modified":"2021-01-22T18:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T02:23:49","slug":"experimental-glider-smashes-record-for-high-altitude-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/experimental-glider-smashes-record-for-high-altitude-flight","title":{"rendered":"Experimental glider smashes record for high-altitude flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-glider-smashes-record-for-high-altitude-flight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Riding the wind above the Andes Mountains, an experimental glider has set a world record for high-altitude flight.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 2, the sleek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/innovation\/after-successful-test-flight-perlan-2-glider-aims-stratosphere-n433311\">Perlan 2 glider<\/a> carried two pilots to 76100 feet, or more than 14 miles, over the El Calafate region in southern Argentina. That\u2019s the highest altitude ever reached by humans aboard an unpowered fixed-wing aircraft, and one of the highest altitudes reached by an aircraft of any description. Only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/sciencemain\/son-blackbird-meet-sr-72-lockheeds-planned-new-hypersonic-spy-8C11528419\">spy planes<\/a> and specialized balloons have flown higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 Riding the wind above the Andes Mountains, an experimental glider has set a world record for high-altitude flight. On Sept. 2, the sleek Perlan 2 glider carried two pilots to 76100 feet, or more than 14 miles, over the El Calafate region in southern Argentina. That\u2019s the highest altitude ever reached by humans [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1511,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}