I think Tank was in the Bob Hoover category as a test pilot. "No flutter" for him would result in rectal seat cushion ingestion for a normal pilot. They don't make engineers like they used to.

Or maybe he had a logbook notation saying "no flutter" but he neglected to write down that there was "scary vibration" and that he voided his bowels.

Also I misquoted in the previous post. It was 700 km/h indicated at 6000 m. I get Ma = 0.8375
[This message has been edited by funked (edited 02-28-2000).]