An update on Dan Parker’s altitude record attempt.

By Bob Fritz

Dan Parker will be a familiar name to those of you who recall a piece from the January 2008 issue of KITPLANES®. He’s a man of no small ambition, who aims to fly to a new world record altitude of 31,051 feet in an aircraft he designed and built, weighing less than 200 kilograms. I checked in to see how things were coming along.

The finished airplane is planned to weigh 415 pounds empty, with a 46-foot wingspan, a length of 17.5 feet, and a Rotax 503 powering it to a Vne of 80 mph. Parker likes to compare it to an F-15. “It’s got the same wingspan at 1.5% the weight,” he says. …

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