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!
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On Thu, 10 Mar, 2016 at 4:00 pm, Mike Cleaver
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
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On 10 Mar 2016, at 12:48, Mike Borgelt 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 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
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