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Line 26: The project is awaiting ratification of altitude records of {{cvt\|18,492\|m}} on August 26, 2018, {{cvt\|19,439\|m}} on August 28, 2018 and {{cvt\|22,646\|m}} on September 2, 2018.<ref name=altituderecords /> ==Meteorological ~~Basis~~basis of the ~~Missions~~missions== [[Lee wave\|Standing mountain waves]] are a source of rising air used in the sport of [[gliding\|soaring]]. Riding these waves, similar in some ways to surfing on an ocean wave, has been widely used to reach great altitudes in sailplanes since they were discovered by German glider pilots, including [[Wolf Hirth]], in 1933 in the [[Riesengebirge]].<ref>{{cite web \| url = http://www.nateferguson.com/glider.html

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