The figures quoted in the article are the officially admitted FAI records they hold. Unofficially higher flights were " classified " information, but the F4 Phantom did a zoom climb to 104,000 ft at least once.
Wombat Sent from Wombat's iPad > On 10 Mar 2016, at 12:48, Mike Borgelt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Apart from the bit about recreational glider pilots avoiding mountain wave, > the late model U-2 easily goes straight to 74,000 feet. There was an article > in AW&ST about it years ago where they flew an editor from the magazine in a > two seater. > > The A-12 (early single seat version)/SR71 was apparently tested to 91,000 > feet or so. Kelly Johnson told them not to push their luck any higher. Got > that from Pat Halloran who used to fly U-2 and SR71. > > I sure hope the Perlan guys have their meteorology right. John MacArthur, > former RAF U-2 pilot who lives in Toowoomba told be it was always smooth as a > baby's bottom at 70,000 feet. He did say they avoided thunderstorms and known > turbulence. > > Mike > > > > > > > At 11:33 AM 3/10/2016, you wrote: > >> Even the aviation press doesn't always get things right. >> >> https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/perlan-2-glider-starts-cabin-pressurisation-tests-422970/ >> >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring >> instrumentation since 1978 >> www.borgeltinstruments.com >> tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 >> mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 >> P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation > since 1978 > www.borgeltinstruments.com > tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 > mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 > P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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