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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}}</ref>
For the 2018 season, 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 42,000 feet<ref>http://perlanproject.org/blog/first-ever-tow-egrett</ref> This seems to be the highest glider tow, as records are not registered.
On 26 August 2018 Jim Payne and Morgan Sandercock reached an altitude of {{cvt|63,100|ft}}.<!--<ref name=Airbus3sep2018>--> This was followed by {{cvt|65,600|ft}} with Jim Payne and Miguel Iturmendi on 28 August 2018.<!--<ref name=Airbus3sep2018>-->
On 2 September 2018, Jim Payne and Tim Gardner reached an altitude of {{cvt|76,124|ft}}, surpassing the {{cvt|73,737|feet}} attained by Jerry Hoyt on April 17, 1989 in a [[Lockheed U-2]]: the highest subsonic flight.<!--<ref name=Airbus3sep2018>-->
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