we asked for .82, and after they stopped laughing, they said "we'll see what we can do, but no promises". We pushed it up and hit .80, but thats all it had. We didn't fly that long though, they told us we were burning 9k an hour. I guess the old bobcat isn't as good once as it ever was.

(back to actual speed stories though...sorry to hijack)

Ha...friend of mine saw almost 600GS once. It was windy.

My source is "Dozer". He told me during an interview that they are permitted to exceed 50k', that they spent 'a lot of time' up in the bozosphere, and that they are not required to wear the partial pressure suit.

Ask Dozer how many AIM-120s he thinks it'll take him to shoot down one MiG-29 in an F/A-22.

Tumbleweed,

Is 59K the limit then? If not, is one specified, at least for training?

Above Armstrong's Line (63K), I don't believe the Combat Edge/GSuit combo will keep you alive. You'll "boil".

Edited March 4, 200718 yr by Huggyu2

Dude...it would SUCK to boil

Its the G-suit, F-22's can go to FL60.....probably a waiver involved too............Dealt with it in Iron Thunder off the east coast of the U.S. It was freakin awsome watching the cons so far above us we couldn't see the aircraft...