HARD_SARGE
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Joined: 5/27/2002 From: Cleveland, Ohio Status: offline
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by NorthStar [B]Just some thoughts here, but: 1) Can we be sure the ceilings are "hard". Just because the Zeke is rated as a 32.8 k ceiling, is there anything stopping the pilot from eeking out a thousand or so more? All he would need was a thirty seconds or so above the ceiling to make a pass. :) [/B][/QUOTE] well for one thing, when you start getting closer and closer to the max alt for a plane, it does turn into a HARD cap, the plane starts to mush out, not enough power or speed to keep the air flow under the wings and all of that good stuff another fator is the pilot himself, it gets very cold up there, is the plane sealed, pressurized, does his ox system work to the max limit his plane can fly to there was a story about a GB Spit driver who wanted a GE recon bird who would fly over the middle east every day at the same time, but at such a high alt, no one could get to him, so he went up and climbed and climbed to be with in range, and the bird came in on time, and he got him, but he had trouble trying to land the plane, due to all the frost bite he had suffered during the flight HARD_Sarge
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