May 25 Saturday 10:00 AM Member Gathering, coffee and doughnuts beforehand:
May’s featured topic follows last month’s discussion about glider flying. This time we’ll hear about the Perlan 2 Project – the world record holding sailplane, the team who built it, and its adventures up to the middle stratosphere. Chapter member Al Lawless was on the all-volunteer team to help with flight testing and envelope expansion and will relay first-hand accounts of these remarkable people in action. Al is a flight test expert for Aurora Flight Sciences, Technical Fellow for Boeing, a Flight analyzer DER for the FAA, and holds tickets for commercial instrument MEL, gliders, and motor gliders. He is between airplanes, looking for the next partner.