Hi Les,

Just curious. What's the greatest altitude you've ( For the pedants:- AN AIRCRAFT ) flown at?

Cheers!

 

He did once get a ladder to clean the cockpit window
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Private joke between Les and I

 

He once jumped over a puddle,,,,,,,so about 1'

 

I'm not sure about 'great' but I find 27,342ft very pleasing

 

I bet 250ft is a pretty good one too, especially in a Vulcan

 

Does that include when flying on holiday?

 

When I was stationed in Germany we had a Canberra B(I)8 which for some reason had better performance than all the others. I was returning to base from a very long trip and I did a "cruise/clmb" which means that you maintain a constant speed at a high power setting and as the fuel weight decreases the aircraft will climb. This aircraft made it up to 53,700 feet which may not sound that high but is amazing for a Canberra at that time.

I got a good "listening to" from the boss after that got out because you are supposed to have pressure breathing oxygen at that height in case of cabin pressurisation failure. Your life expectancy at thet height withough oxygen is not very long at all!

The Vulcan would go higher I reckon at a light fuel weight but that also did not have pressure breathing, not on our squadron anyway.

As was said above, 250 feet is plenty high enough anyway, it gets boring up at height!

Les

 

You had to have overalls to do that Pete!

Les All part of the joke,

 

Thats a bit extreme, but we have been known to get down to less that 50 feet over the puddles!

Les

 

While your on Les, do you know the name of a book written by one of the pilots of the Blackbird SR-71? I remember reading about it on Piston heads and intended to buy it but forgot to

Sounded like a good read...

 

Brian Shul?

Just noticed only £180 on Amazon, second hand. Perhaps try your library

 

No don't know that one. I'd certainly like to read it. The Blackbird was a fascinating machine.

Think I will try the library for that one!

Les

 

Thats the chap, i remember reading an extract from it on PH and it sounded fantastic. But at £180 i might give it a miss

 

always new he had his head in the clouds

 

Too high for those up there!

Les