ME163 Record Altitude 93,700 feet Flifast

[Bronk]

You didn't even get high enough to see the Star Destroyer easter egg.

One you get past that you'll find ACKACK.

[BaldEagl]

OK.  I just tried it. 

On my fifth try I finally broke 90K but when I did the entire cockpit/airplane dissapeared.  I still had fuel and was trying to manage my speed and climb rate but when the cockpit dissapeared there wasn't anything I could do.

I watched the film and I hit 90.9K.  When it came back under 90K the cockpit/airplane reappeared, both in my flight and in the film.  I did land safely but made the mistake of flying away from friendly bases and had to glide forever to get back.

I'm pretty sure if the entire airplane hadn't dissapeared I'd have been able to hit 100K or at least close to it as I still had over 1 min of fuel left.

Maybe I'll trry again later... maybe not.

[Krusty]

Nifty to brag, but try not to think of it as realistic. Aces High "breaks" over a certain alt (50K? I don't recall) and physics doesn't work as it should. So breaking Mach1 at 70,000 feet doesn't mean much because the game doesn't model things up that high. Try breaking it under 40K, then it would be interesting to see.

[WWhiskey]

on my way but not quite that high yet

[jdbecks]

do you hear it break the sound barrier?

[WWhiskey]

same thing here as soon as i hit 90k it put me outside  no cockpit, still got to 92 k  tho
 

[BaldEagl]

Nifty to brag, but try not to think of it as realistic. Aces High "breaks" over a certain alt (50K? I don't recall) and physics doesn't work as it should. So breaking Mach1 at 70,000 feet doesn't mean much because the game doesn't model things up that high. Try breaking it under 40K, then it would be interesting to see.

Yes, there are some very strange anomolies. 

As I was approaching about 45K I was reading 1-2 minutes of fuel remaining.  When I broke over that my fuel remaining went to 3-4 minutes remaining and climb rate improved dramatically.

As I approached 90K I was showing 100 mph IAS and over 500 mph TGS and still climbing at around 15K ft/m.  The plane was shaking from speed stress and the stall buzzer was going off from being too slow.  That was the process I was trying to manage when the plane dissapeared.  I was trying to lower throttle and climb rate to bring IAS up while dropping TAS and it seemed to be working until the vanishing act occured.

[Flifast]

Check your TAS bug out...it wraps all the way around.  I never got the disapearing plane.  The recovery is alway out of control like what we call the falling leaf, then kick it inverted and try to keep it in a full stall till 50K or so then recover.  Speed kills!  Fli

[Slash27]

That's nothing, I flew one to uranus.....

sinner

[EskimoJoe]

sinner

[BaldEagl]

What do the Starship Enterprise and a roll of toilet paper have in common?



























































They're both headed for Uranus to wipe out the Klingons.

[StokesAk]

97,900 feet isnt bad.

[Flifast]

Nice...but did you recover and land it dead stick?  95K is as high as I got and it came apart on the way down.

Looks like when I have some free time I'll punch it on up!  Fli

[1Boner]

That's nothing, I flew one to uranus.....

Is Uranus in Vermont?

[StokesAk]

Nice...but did you recover and land it dead stick?  95K is as high as I got and it came apart on the way down.

Looks like when I have some free time I'll punch it on up!  Fli

anyone can do that. I didnt stall either.