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		<title>Building something crazy in Bend</title>
		<description>Discuss Building something crazy in Bend</description>
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			<title>90,000 ft. sailplane</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I am reminded of the old (but still flying operational missions, last I heard) U-2 aircraft.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Alex Kovnat</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 18:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ed Warnock, CEO, The Perlan Project says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[From Wikipedia: The SR-71's official altitude record - "The SR-71 was the world's fastest and highest-flying operational manned aircraft throughout its career. On 28 July 1976, SR-71 serial number 61-7962 broke the world record for its class: an "absolute altitude record" of 85,069 feet (25,929 m). Several aircraft exceeded this altitude in zoom climbs but not in sustained flight.[68] That same day SR-71, serial number 61-7958 set an absolute speed record of 1,905.81 knots (2,193.2 mph; 3,529.6 km/h)." Manned aircraft have gone higher, but they were in zoom climbs and could not sustain level flight. The Perlan glider being built in Bend would set a new world altitude record at 90,000 feet for "manned, wing borne,sustained level flight."]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ed Warnock, CEO, The Perlan Project</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 20:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Another correction</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nit picking aside, to fly a GLIDER to that height and solve the inherent structural, temperature and pressurization problems is a very special and novel project. As a glider pilot I can identify with this, having just once reached a height of "only" 21,500 feet !]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John H. Bisscheroux</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 14:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Another correction</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Joseph Kittinger jumped from a balloon @ 102,800' back in 1960. Not that the glider project is not impressive but the grandiose statements like "That’s higher than any piloted plane, glider or balloon has ventured..." shows little expertise in aviation history. I didn't mention the Streak Eagle F-15 which hit 102K and numerous X planes like the X-15 which hit ~50 miles of altitude.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dave Leedom</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>A very small correction</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[On November 20, 1965 an A-12 Blackbird exceeded Mach 3.2 and a sustained altitude of 90,000 feet, so it's been done at least once.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>David Temple</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 13:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>No crash landing for Epic</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Actually Epic did not crash land in China. China got a licensing agreement to sell the aircraft mostly in China, but the company is still flying under American leadership with most of the world as its market--except China.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Alton Marsh</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 13:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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