[Aus-soaring] Perlan Progress

For those who may be interested, Perlan 2 has just reached 32,500 feet (9,900m) altitude over El Calafate, Argentina in its preparation for record attempts later in the year.

Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan/U-2

erbolt circulated some time ago. Anthony From: Aus-soaring [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark Newton Sent: Monday, 14 March 2016 8:29 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. <aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan/U-2

On 11 Mar 2016, at 9:55 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > If you haven't already done so I'd also recommend Brian Schul's books "Sled > driver" and "the Untouchables" about flying the SR-71. The latter has a > section where he and his backseater flew the pre, strike

Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan/U-2

Glad they're not flying SR-71s any more, they're extremely noisy going through Mach. First time hearing it, thought someone had crashed into the house. The shock waves were quite visible in a Cirrus deck. Ripples then BOOM. Irv Culver had a few stories about the 71. He was also originator of

Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan

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

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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

Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan

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 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