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Even the aviation press doesn't always get things right.
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/perlan-2-glider-starts-cabin-pressurisation-tests-422970/
Mike
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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&ST 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 appare
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:
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 th
Yes, he's still around too. Living in Toowoomba.
He told us all about his flight over the USSR. Big, brass ones.
Mike
At 04:12 PM 3/10/2016, you wrote:
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
f
The NF-104 (the one Chuck Yeager ejected from) went higher than that
but the U-2 and SR-71 were sustained flight at those altitudes.
Mike
At 04:00 PM 3/10/2016, you wrote:
The figures quoted in the article are the officially admitted FAI
records they hold. Unofficially higher flights were
Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan
Yes, he's still around too. Living in Toowoomba.
He told us all about his flight over the USSR. Big, brass ones.
Mike
At 04:12 PM 3/10/2016, you wrote:
Wow. My interest was piqued when I saw 'RAF U2'. Got on line and sa
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.
http://newatlas.com/perlan-2-altitude/50772/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=58cd37f543-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium
elt
Sent: Thursday, 10 March 2016 6:13 PM
To: Dave Donald; Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan
Yes, he's still around too. Living in Toowoomba.
He told us all about his flight over the USSR. Big, brass ones.
Mike
At 04:12 PM 3/10/2016, y
Borgelt
Sent: Friday, 11 March 2016 9:55 AM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan/U-2
John MacArthur's flight was IIRC 3 flights before the Powers shootdown.
He launched out of Norway and recovered in Turkey after 9 hours with ab
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 the
There's a two part doco available from the usual sources called "Cold
War, Hot Jets." It's made in the UK, fairly recently, and has
interviews with at least one RAF U2 pilot. It would appear that the
RAF flew a lot of the U2 missions… a lot more than admitted at the
time.
D
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IIRC Pat Halloran is interviewed also.
Mike
At 10:40 AM 3/12/2016, you wrote:
There's a two part doco available from the usual
sources called "Cold War, Hot Jets." It's made
in the UK, fairly recently, and has interviews
with at least one RAF U2 pilot. It would appear
that the RAF flew a lot
On 11 Mar 2016, at 9:17 PM, Derek Ruddock wrote:
>
> After doing some research after the recent Tom Hanks film re Gary Powers, I
> found an amazing amount of declassified information on the U2 program,
> including all the actual flight paths. Google is your friend.
I visited Duxford in July.
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 day and post strike
> reconnaissanc
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.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan/U-2
On 11 Mar 2016, at 9:17 PM,
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