Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan

2016-03-09 Thread 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! Sent from Yahoo7 Mail on Android On Thu, 10 Mar, 2016 at 4:00 pm, Mike Cleaver

Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan

2016-03-09 Thread 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 Sent from Wombat's iPad > On 10 Mar 2016, at 12:48, Mike Borgelt

Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan

2016-03-09 Thread 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