Aircraft not flying by mountain waves broke the world record

While the Airbus A380 has a record-breaking 15 km flight, Airbus's Perlan 2 sets a new world record as it flies up to 52,000 feet without a motor. The record-breaking flight took place when Perlan 2 departed from El Calafate, Argentina.

Perlan 2 flew at 17km without any engine.

Two pilots, Jim Payne and Morgan Sandercock, were on board.

Perlan 2 flies from El Calafate in Argentina.

Perlan 2 at a height of 14km look down to the ground.

It broke the previous record of 50,671 feet, which was set up in 2006 by Steve Fossett and Einar Enevoldson.

Airbus long-term plan to develop Perlan jet airplanes into space-free airplanes. Airbus's Perlan 2 aircraft has a historic flight to create a new world record for skydiving.

Perlan 2 aircraft is a hovercraft designed to loop around the so-called "mountain waves" , which operate in some areas near the north and south poles, which can enter the stratosphere. .

Mountain formation occurs when strong winds of at least 15 knots cross a perpendicular mountain and the atmosphere is a "stable" wave that will form on the other side of the mountain range.