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Keith V
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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
Yep, ceiling for the SR71 is supposedly 85,000' but some say it can reach
100,000'.
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'.
Ken H.
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Ken Burton wrote:
> Ken Henderson wrote on Thu, 22 June 2017 20:12
>> Tracking the winds aloft associated with the big storm in the S., huh?
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>> Ken H.
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> 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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