| Re: [GMCnet] This thing was near my house today [message #319500 is a reply to message #319471] |
Fri, 23 June 2017 12:53   |
emerystora
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Emery Stora
77 Kingsley
Frederick, CO
> On Jun 23, 2017, at 11:49 AM, Keith V wrote:
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> 51000' seems high enough. Is the view much different that at 30000'?
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> ________________________________
> From: Gmclist on behalf of Ken Henderson
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 10:48:13 AM
> To: gmclist@list.gmcnet.org
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] This thing was near my house today
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> Yep, ceiling for the SR71 is supposedly 85,000' but some say it can reach
> 100,000'.
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> I've never flown but a few feet above 51,000 (F101B). We weren't supposed
> to be there since we didnt have pressure suits, but we HAD to try it. :-)
>
> In the mid-60's we were aerial recovering, all over the western hemisphere,
> from Alaska to Panama, instrumentation packages that the AEC had dropped
> from balloons at over 115,000'.
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> Ken H.
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>> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Ken Burton wrote:
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>> Ken Henderson wrote on Thu, 22 June 2017 20:12
>>> Tracking the winds aloft associated with the big storm in the S., huh?
>>>
>>> Ken H.
>>
>> I did some more checking and they periodically launch these. This one had
>> two transmitters and two call signs on it. One belongs to the Adler
>> Planetarium and the other belongs to a PhD at the University of Chicago.
>> They launch these things and at about 70,000 feet or so explode the balloon
>> so it comes down again. Then they run out and retrieve it. Had I noticed
>> it sooner, I would have run over to the landing / recovery site to find out
>> what they are doing. I sent a note to the Phd. at the University of
>> Chicago with a bunch of questions.
>>
>> Winds aloft all right. That is a heck of a lot higher than either I have
>> ever been.
>>
>> I wonder is an SR-71 can go that high.
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