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On 10/29/2010 12:03 AM, Dan Birchall wrote:
That would be pretty cool, indeed. I have to settle for having flown commercial airlines a distance equal to going to the moon and back. Fortunately, my friends are easily impressed. Yeah? I hit 45,000 feet in a Il-62 headed for JFK from Moscow. Beat that. :-) Pat |
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:40:34 -0800, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 10/29/2010 12:03 AM, Dan Birchall wrote: That would be pretty cool, indeed. I have to settle for having flown commercial airlines a distance equal to going to the moon and back. Fortunately, my friends are easily impressed. Yeah? I hit 45,000 feet in a Il-62 headed for JFK from Moscow. Beat that. :-) 50,000' (And maybe a little [1]), T-38A, out of WPAFB, circa 1979. 23,000' Schweitzer SGS 2-32, Mt Washington wave, 1978. [1] Exceeding 50,000' without a pressure suit is contrary to regulations. -- Pete Stickney Failure is not an option It comes bundled with the system |
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On 10/30/2010 1:07 PM, Peter Stickney wrote:
[1] Exceeding 50,000' without a pressure suit is contrary to regulations. Somebody should have told Concorde about that. At one point they were going to put the flight crew in pressure suits, but thought that might send the wrong message to the passengers. :-) Pat |
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:41:04 -0800, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 10/30/2010 1:07 PM, Peter Stickney wrote: [1] Exceeding 50,000' without a pressure suit is contrary to regulations. Somebody should have told Concorde about that. At one point they were going to put the flight crew in pressure suits, but thought that might send the wrong message to the passengers. :-) That should have read, by implication, "contrary to USAF Regulations". Concorde, like any other commercial aircraft, is able to maintain pressurization with several window-sized leaks in the pressure hull. It also was exempted from some of the safety requirements that are supposed to apply to airliners. (Divert / Reserve fuel requirements on the North Atlantic run, for example.) Since the subsonic ceiling is down around 30,000', with a serious increase in fuel burn, there's a section in the mid-Atlantic where an engine loss means that they get to test the ditching characteristics of a 100 passenger delta-winged glider. As it is, an engine out past Iceland meant a landing in Gander, Newfoundland, or Bangor, Maine. Deceleration and descent from Mach 2/60Kft is a ticklish affair, as well. (Although operating the airplane doesn't quite need to be the Spaceship/Scifi movie game that the crews made it out to be.) -- Pete Stickney Failure is not an option It comes bundled with the system |
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