Re: [Aus-soaring] Slip of the tongue

[Dave Donald]

Why would he be sorry?

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  On Sun, 17 Apr, 2016 at 2:33 pm, Richard Frawley wrote:  
 good sharing! 
On 17 Apr 2016, at 1:45 PM, Greg Wilson  wrote:



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Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan

[Dave Donald]

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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