{"id":14224,"date":"2019-11-18T17:48:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T17:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=14224"},"modified":"2019-11-18T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T17:48:51","slug":"michelin-aviation-solves-tire-issue-allowing-research-plane-to-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/international-news\/michelin-aviation-solves-tire-issue-allowing-research-plane-to-soar\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Michelin Aviation Solves Tire Issue Allowing Research Plane to Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The award-winning Airbus Perlan Mission II \u2013 a nonprofit\norganization made up of volunteer pilots, engineers and scientists \u2013 is\ndeveloping soaring technologies and testing stratospheric air launch operations\nto study weather patterns and atmospheric chemistry with the goal of improving\nflights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Attaining its first world record in 2006 at 50,722 feet with\na non-pressurized sailplane (Perlan 1), the pressurized (Airbus) Perlan 2\nsailplane (first flown in 2015) reached new heights on Sept. 2, 2018, above\nPatagonia, Argentina, when this research plane soared to 76,124 feet pressure\naltitude over the Andes Mountains \u2013 becoming the highest manned subsonic\nairplane flight in history. This flight topped the Lockheed Martin U-2\u2019s record\nfrom 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2019, Airbus Perlan Mission II Chief Pilot Jim\nPayne contacted Michelin with a critical tire issue \u2212 the wheel-mounted tire\nwas losing air pressure when exposed to \u2013105-degree Fahrenheit temperatures in\nthe stratosphere. Michelin aviation engineers studied the issue and suggested\nmoving to a tubeless tire with the appropriate load rating for the glider: the\nMICHELIN AVIATOR. Working with a local tire distributor, Michelin arranged for\na set of tires to be shipped, so the plane could conduct test flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Perlan 2 Aircraft<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe 10-ply Michelin tire was outstanding in El Calafate\n(Argentina),\u201d said Jim Payne. \u201cWe flew six flights above 40,000 feet with the\nhighest being 65,000 feet and never had a flat tire on landing!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelin aviation engineers were proud to be part of the\nefforts that solved the issue, so Perlan 2 could continue making\nrecord-breaking ascents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The award-winning Airbus Perlan Mission II \u2013 a nonprofit organization made up of volunteer pilots, engineers and scientists \u2013 is developing soaring technologies and testing stratospheric air launch operations to study weather patterns and atmospheric chemistry with the goal of improving flights. Attaining its first world record in 2006 at 50,722 feet with a non-pressurized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14227,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224\/revisions\/14227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}