PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - World's Worst Area's Of Turbulence?
View Single Post
Old 2nd Dec 2004, 10:53
  #16 (permalink)  
SR71

Mach 3
 
Join Date: Aug 1998
Location: Stratosphere
Posts: 622
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Paul Crickmore recounts on Pg 128 of Lockheed SR-71 - The Secret Missions Exposed a story of a SR-71 crew flying 974 in July '68 where they ran into storms in the Gulf of Tonkin with the tops of the clouds at 79,000ft! They overshot them at M=3.2 @ 80,000.

Now thats a Cb!

SR71 is offline