Greatest Altitude without pressure cabin/suit

In message , QDurham
writes
"QDurham" wrote in message
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| Breathing at that altitude must be like sucking meatloaf through a
straw
|
| Inhaling and exhaling aren't problems -- perfectly normal. It is just
that the
| inhaling part doesn't accomplish anything notably p[roductive. One
probably
| has 3-6 seconds of useful consciousness at 30K, no mask. Been there (in a
tank
| bolted to the floor) done that. Utterly unnoticed, utterly painless,
kinda
| fun, and REAL fast.
|
| Quent
|
|


I'd like to say that "that's what I meant" and try to bluff my way out of
it. Failing that, thanks for the info.



Cheers


Dave Kearton










Dave wrote:...
| Breathing at that altitude must be like sucking meatloaf through a
straw
|
Quent wrote:
| Inhaling and exhaling aren't problems -- perfectly normal. It is just that
the| inhaling part doesn't accomplish anything notably productive. One
probably has 3-6 seconds of useful consciousness at 30K, no mask. Been there
(in a tank bolted to the floor) done that. Utterly unnoticed, utterly
painless, kinda fun, and REAL fast.
|
| Quent
Dave wrote:
I'd like to say that "that's what I meant" and try to bluff my way out of it.
Failing that, thanks for the info.
Cheers


Dave Kearton

I was asked to write my name on a clipboard. "How many times?" "I'll tell you
when to quit." So I did (sans mask.) After 4th "absolutely perfect
signatures" , I stopped -- wondering why continue. ****. "I can do this the
rest of my life." (Not far off.)

Instructor slapped mask back on. Vision went from tunnel vision such as one
might see looking down a soda straw to wide open -- in color! Jeeze!
Stunnin!. Maybe 4 seconds. Humans do not store oxygen, and the absence of
same is perfectly painless. Been there. Done that. Delicious experience.

Quent
















Members of this august group: could I suggest that some take a little
time to do some judicious snipping? So that we don't send vast acreages
of white space to each other, like above.

Mike
--
M.J.Powell

Christian Köhler wrote:
Ron wrote:
"The greatest recorded height by any pilot without a pressure cabin
or even a pressure suit has been 49.500 feet by Britsh Sqaudron
Leader G. W. H. Reynolds, D.F.C. in a Spitfire Mark VC over Libya in
1942."


Wrong!

A sailplane reached 50,032 Feet over the sirerra nevada!

Whoops, im sorry.

The mentioned record is only 14 938 m (49.009 ft) flown by Robert R.
HARRIS (USA)

http://records.fai.org/gliding/histo...O&id2=1&id3=98

mfg