Fubar512 Posted October 5, 2016 Posted October 5, 2016 Would you believe sustained flight at 42,000 ft asl? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgp5qel1VUk 2 Quote
Toryu Posted October 5, 2016 Posted October 5, 2016 (edited) Why not? The airplane is most-certainly a couple of hundred pounds lighter than war-examples (no armament or armor, more modern radios, etc.). Why would the controls freeze? Probably has more to do with him being stiff as a corpse, rather than grease-issues with control-linkages. Mach-numbers should not be much of a problem. Ta 152Hs have been at up to 50000ft. I think HF Spitfires have done so as well. Some american WW2 fighters probably have done the same. No biggie really. Edited October 5, 2016 by Toryu Quote
shotdown Posted October 21, 2016 Posted October 21, 2016 I think P-47 Thunderbolt could fly at 13000 m (roughly 43000 ft) Quote
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