How high have you been?
 

We have read about how low and fast some of you have been. but how high and how fast have you been? rolleyes:

Does Heaven and back with the help of Suzie from down the pub count?

Rivetjoint.

I said how high not how low

We like girls like Suzie don't we? Anyway, before the thought takes over......... I managed to get a Gazelle over Mt Kenya at 17650 ft give or take a few feet as I'm not sure that the Altimeter was that accurate up there. Not something I will forget in a hurry as the view was outstanding and the aerodynamics concentrated the mind, it will rank up there on the naughty achievements list!!:D

Trout, have you had your lips done?
;)

Called VFR on top at FL 670 in a Lightning. Boulmer were sharper than normal and came straight back with "Ceasing radar service, you're clear en route, click." Speeds as best I can recall were in the order of Mach 1 and 150 Kts IAS at the time, having zoomed from Mach 1.95 (never did see Mach 2). :ok:
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All I can say in my defence Your Honour is that alcohol was involved.

Flygunz.

No need buddy, i could allready drink a pint of guiness without using me hands.

55,100 ft - SUSTAINED, and a piccie to prove it. None of your fleeting glimpses of some silly altitude as the aircraft peaks during a ballistic trajectory!

Rivet.....the pressing question is you readily admitted to the event calling for how "High and Fast".....you said how "high"....care to enlightened us with a description of how "fast" you were?

When you're that high, speed is just a number :)

I've been 3500 metres above sea level (FL 115 i think) in a Blanik glider in the mountain waves... not very impressive, but I still remember that trip. I saw the tops of the clouds, and I had gotten there only by natural powers!:)

The speed was 150 km/h if you need to know.... hehe.

PP

FL490 sustained, Mach 0.93 sustained, both in a 4-jet.........but not that speed and that height at the same time.

F500 @ M2.5 F111 - rules prevented a higher altitude
yeah so what I hear you say -

some years earlier:

43,217' in a C-130H over Canberra
Yes Really!!!



Any Vulcan drivers out there??

16500 in a Weesex HC2 over Dungannon..in my silly, younger daze

M0.9 and FL510 at the same time in a 4-jet. 25 years ago in a Vulcan.... Nearly dropped a boom on Bawtry once when descending through FL450 and had forgotten about the airbrake trim change....saw M0.97!

Even on your IRT you did M0.84 at FL410 - in a sustained 45 deg turn!

"Washington centre, 364 request FL660"
"364, if you can get up there you can have it"
"roger, 364, descending to FL660, U2 with victor, request vectors for the field"

Anyone else heard this famous "heard on the airwaves".

Like, that depends on the substance man...far out:8

Zoomed an F-4 from M2.0 to FL630, chickening out when I remembered that the cabin conditioning system was cleared to only FL480. Made it home 200nm away using about 250lb of fuel. Not a bad glider, actually.

18000 ft (ish) in a Chipmunk and 45000 ft at M.095 in a sustained 60 degree turn in a Victor B1 (with nose flaps).

Not the Chipmunk I know and love. 18,000 feet would have needed a real big thermal or an engine upgrade!

SH Monkey - course not an F3 entry. If the Alps had been 2000ft higher we would have needed to offload stores to get to the last Gulf war.