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
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
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