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|url=http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/61941e70-7245-4089-83bb-da3da7240d6e

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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2017/09/perlan-sets-new-world-record.html | title=Airbus Perlan Mission II Soars into History, Sets New World Record for Glider Altitude &#124; Airbus | date=28 October 2021 }}</ref> This flight used the custom designed and built pressurized high-altitude [[Windward Performance Perlan II]] glider. The flight also collected data about earth’s atmosphere and its ozone layer.

The project is awaiting ratification of altitude records of {{cvt|18,492|m}} on 26 August 2018, {{cvt|19,439|m}} on 28 August 2018 and {{cvt|22,646|m}} on 2 September 2018.<ref name=altituderecords />

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===Flight campaigns===

The aircraft was completed in the summer of 2015, with first flight scheduled for 7 September. Windy conditions that day prevented the flight, which finally occurred on 23 September.<ref>[http://www.opb.org/news/article/experimental-glider-flies-for-first-time-in-redmond/ "Experimental Glider Flies for the First Time in Redmond"]</ref> Flight testing will start and continue in [[Minden, NV]] in fall and winter of 2015, using a new hangar donated by Tito.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.flyingmag.com/perlan-2-glider-preps-for-flight-tests | title=Perlan 2 Glider Preps for Flight Tests | date=17 December 2015 }}</ref> The first attempts to reach 90,000 feet will be launched from [[El Calafate]], [[Argentina]], deep in the south of [[Patagonia]], in the [[Southern Hemisphere]] soon afterwards in summer of 2016.<!--use month, as summer is January in South-->

A new altitude record of 15,902 metres (52,172 feet) by Jim Payne (USA) and Morgan Sandercock (Australia) from [[Comandante Armando Tola International Airport]] in El Calafate, Argentina. The flight took place on 3 September 2017<ref name="2017 record"/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://fai.org/record/teamcrew-18248 | title=Glider absolute altitude record 15,902m| date=16 October 2017}}</ref>

The 2018 season was again based at El Calafate. The project acquired a [[Grob G 520|Grob G 520 Egrett]] turboprop aircraft for use as a tow plane. This enabled Perlan II to be towed to {{cvt|44,000|ft|0}} <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.perlanproject.org/blog/stratospheric-tow-perlan-2-egrett|title=Stratospheric tow of Perlan 2 by Egrett}}</ref> This seems to be the highest glider tow, as records are not registered.