Ludvig .... ?? I thought his mummy called him David. :confused: Merry Christmas to you too LM - and to every one else. :) LFH

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Merry Cringe Chaps

Wossa all the jagged edges mate?

Take yer specs orf - I'm not that proficient!

PM me an aeroplane pic and background that you want and I'll do a card from you as well. :ok:

(professionally this time :E)

IIRC a couple to GR1s from Laarbruch actually got that view of the castle when they lost track of where the border was sometime around 1990.... and no it wasn't me!

Picking up newt's "challenge" ...

I can't comment on the "best" or "fastest" but I knew Pete Stone a long time ago ... where legend has it that he, in the late 70's early 80's, took a T Bird Lightning super sonic, at below mast height, past a Rusian Trawler "Earwigging" down in the Med ... which, after the event, he regarded as a legitimate enemy intercept. Must have been interesting for the Trawler crew !

Best regards ...

Coff.

All I can add to that is this:

The IAS limit for the Lightning was 650 kts.

At sea level ISA conditions the speed of sound is 661 kts.

Interesting word that "limit" ... well even at 98% SoS it would have caused a stir on deck I'm sure :E

Yes.

You only need 0.97 to 0.98 with 6g to throw quite a nice bang.

Lots of us have done it.

On the receiving end it looks like this:

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Thanks LM ... awesome bit of kit twas the Lightning :ok: If only I'd been more capable :(

You degrade yourself.

We were just a bunch of ordinary guys doing a professional job.

We were not called "Fast Jet Pilots" in those days - we were "Fighter Pilots".

Have a Happy Christmas LM ... see you around PPRuNe :ok:

Dave Roome might be contender for highest. I believe he got up to 88,000' over Singapore one day.

No he didn't - another "Lightning Myth".

Did someone (name forgotten) claim to have got to 85K+ over Saudi ? What is the known "official" height acheived ?

Really? He did put it in print. (Not disputing what you are saying, just seems odd that he wrote about it.)

- I believe Brian Carroll claimed that. there is a longish thread buried here somewhere about it.

LM

Wrote a book on the Lightning a good few years ago and was helped greatly by Brian Carroll. He sent me his account of getting to 87,300ft (indicated) over Saudi in 1979. Also included the account of Dave Roome who claimed to have got to 87,800ft near Tengah in 1968. Are you saying the latter claim is incorrect?

How do i add an image?
 

If some one can tell me how to add an image from my desk top etc - ill add to the Ltg Xmas piccies!