>>1499117>What makes it so good for high flying?First of all it has pretty long, high aspect ratio wings.
They produce a lot of lift efficiently, wich you need to fly at high altitudes where the air is thin.
Then there is the material it is made from, it's a lightweight carbon fiber construction.
The engines are also important, however these are just ordenary turbojets that lose a lot of power at high altitudes, wich is part of the reason it maxes out under 20.000 m altitude.
The more capable, interesting and autistic high altitude plane is the Grob G850 Strato 2C that came 3 years earlier.
It has a wingsspan of 55,6 m at a dry weight of only 6,65 t with a service ceiling of 24.000 m at full manifold pressure and a maximum of 26.000 m
The engines are two Teledyne TSIO-550 piston engines with a three-stage turbocharging system that uses the gas generator of a jet-engine for pre-compression.
They needed to do that to have enough manifold pressure to run the engines, piston gas engines where chosen since they require the least air for their power.
