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Re:U-2 pilot's selfie above China's balloon taken over Misso... by sokoloff on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:35PM (#34932350)
The F-15 can regularly climb over FL600 and, under special conditions, has exceeded 100K about MSL.
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Re:U-2 pilot's selfie above China's balloon taken over Misso... by Manuel_D on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:01PM (#34932561)
In level flight or in a zoom climb? It's one thing to build up speed and pitch up in an ballistic arc, it's another thing to fly level at altitude.
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Re:U-2 pilot's selfie above China's balloon taken over Misso... by sokoloff on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:41PM (#34932869)
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Re:U-2 pilot's selfie above China's balloon taken over Misso... by zabzonk on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:10PM (#34933079)
the venerable english electric lightning (RAF) intercepted a u2 at 66k feet during a nato exercise under full control. it also made it to 86K feet, but that was a zoom climb, and the pilot seems to have found the experience rather scary.
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Re:U-2 pilot's selfie above China's balloon taken over Misso... by jki275 on Saturday February 25, 2023 @10:51AM (#34937532)
That was a specialty pre-production version of the F15 that was modified to do basically just altitude and speed records. It never entered operational service.

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/how-the-f-15-streak-eagle-br...

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