Wow. My interest was piqued when I saw 'RAF U2'. Got on line and saw an article in the independent.co.uk which names Mr MacArthur. What a fascinating bloke he would be talk to!
Sent from Yahoo7 Mail on Android On Thu, 10 Mar, 2016 at 4:00 pm, Mike Cleaver<womba...@internode.on.net> wrote: 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 <mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: Apart from the bit about recreational glider pilots avoiding mountainwave, the late model U-2 easily goes straight to 74,000 feet. There wasan article in AW&ST about it years ago where they flew an editor fromthe magazine in a two seater. The A-12 (early single seat version)/SR71 was apparently tested to 91,000feet 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 smoothas a baby's bottom at 70,000 feet. He did say they avoided thunderstormsand known turbulence. Mike At 11:33 AM 3/10/2016, you wrote: Even the aviation press doesn'talways get things right. https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/perlan-2-glider-starts-cabin-pressurisation-tests-422970/ Mike Borgelt Instruments- design & manufacture of quality soaringinstrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 46355784 overseas: int+61-7-46355784 mob: 0428355784 : int+61-42835 5784 P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring Borgelt Instruments- design & manufacture of quality soaringinstrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 46355784 overseas: int+61-7-46355784 mob: 0428355784 : int+61-42835 5784 P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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