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Title: This BBS is a GRAVE YARD! Soooo....
Post by: Ripsnort on May 22, 2003, 01:36:35 PM: Whats the highest you've flown in the MA?

I think my squaddie, Phantom4, holds the unofficial AH record, he managed to get up to 160,000 feet in a ME163 (unlimited fuel during the Con last year) before he fell off his chair..:D Not bad for a real-life backseater in a F4 Phantom...
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Post by: nuchpatrick on May 22, 2003, 01:47:57 PM: Just shy of 40K in a Jug.. or 59K in 162 before running out of gas
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Post by: gofaster on May 22, 2003, 01:55:03 PM: Angels 31 in a 109G10 on autopilot while watching "The Howard Stern Show" before I realized that I wasn't going to find anything to shoot at that altitude.
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Post by: udet on May 22, 2003, 01:55:35 PM: in H2H, with a spawn point set in midair, I got to see a PT boat fall down :)
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Post by: Curval on May 22, 2003, 01:58:26 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort
Whats the highest you've flown in the MA?

One time..real late at night...I sparked this HUGE dube...oh...nevermind...I misunderstood.;)
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Post by: Montezuma on May 22, 2003, 02:13:25 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort
Whats the highest you've flown in the MA?

I think my squaddie, Phantom4, holds the unofficial AH record, he managed to get up to 160,000 feet in a ME163 (unlimited fuel during the Con last year) before he fell off his chair..:D Not bad for a real-life backseater in a F4 Phantom...

There used to be (and probably still is) a bug that will let a C-47 go over 200k in the MA.
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Post by: OIO on May 22, 2003, 02:35:19 PM: 48k in a P-38.

And it was during a snaphot last year, we had a group of P-38s meet a group of zeke's in the 40's alt. Was real fun.
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Post by: keyapaha on May 22, 2003, 02:44:51 PM: I remember in the CT I was in a Fw190a8 tryin to intercept a bomber raid crossed 30k and shot up like a rocket to 36k had to throttle back to 0 and still was doing 400mph.:)
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Post by: Hooligan on May 22, 2003, 02:51:53 PM: 7k or so... but I think the field I took off from was 5.5k.

Hooligan
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Post by: Toad on May 22, 2003, 03:03:51 PM: LOL Hooli!
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Post by: Arlo on May 22, 2003, 03:05:52 PM: Quote
Originally posted by keyapaha
I remember in the CT I was in a Fw190a8 tryin to intercept a bomber raid crossed 30k and shot up like a rocket to 36k had to throttle back to 0 and still was doing 400mph.:)

Oh them evil jetstreams. :D
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Post by: Ripsnort on May 22, 2003, 03:13:34 PM: Quote
Originally posted by OIO
48k in a P-38.

And it was during a snaphot last year, we had a group of P-38s meet a group of zeke's in the 40's alt. Was real fun.

WOW, P38 went that high? incredible...
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Post by: WldThing on May 22, 2003, 03:25:47 PM: 32k in P-51
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Post by: Lazerus1 on May 22, 2003, 03:46:32 PM: 75k or so in a 163, offline. Highest online was 45k'ish in a 152. Went afk, almost forgot to come back:p
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Post by: Saintaw on May 22, 2003, 05:14:02 PM: Do about 15 J's and half a bottle of JD qualify as *high* ?
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Post by: Ripsnort on May 22, 2003, 05:20:52 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Saintaw
Do about 15 J's and half a bottle of JD qualify as *high* ?

Is that before or after you've prayed to the Porcelain Goddess?
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Post by: Hajo on May 22, 2003, 05:54:22 PM: Rip.......I've come to the conclusion that you've entirely to much free time on your hands :D
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Post by: vorticon on May 22, 2003, 05:58:25 PM: bout 200k in a 163 with a full 120mph wind with full uplift...look less than 5 minutes
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Post by: Swoop on May 22, 2003, 06:07:21 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Hajo
Rip.......I've come to the conclusion that you've entirely to much free time on your hands :D

We came to that conclusion after his 1st 20,000 posts......the counters were reset some time last year I think.

(http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/extern/640697.jpg)
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Post by: ramzey on May 22, 2003, 08:03:49 PM: over 280.000 ft MA, during convention last year when 163 was open on the carrier.
Nothing to see there, blue, blue and blue around.

No i not saw sputnik and any other UFO;)

ramzey
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Post by: Sancho on May 22, 2003, 11:30:54 PM: 42.5k in a P-47D-30 in the MA couple years ago on the original map with the big mountain in the middle. I had gone AFK on climbout and forgot the game was still running. When I came back I was like 8 sectors behind the front line. A lone 109 came after me--I think it was Hazed--and he started going off on channel 1 about how high I was. I started BnZing him down at 30k then returning to my perch. I don't remember shooting him down on that occasion. Compression was too much of a problem at that altitude.
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Post by: GRUNHERZ on May 23, 2003, 12:04:01 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Hajo
Rip.......I've come to the conclusion that you've entirely to much free time on your hands :D

You see I figured Rip out after he "bought" the BMW - he's really an Airbus Industrie mole at Boeing and his job is to reduce productivty in their design shops. I hear he is largely responsible for the A380 beating Boeing to the punch in the superjumbo market. And thats why they gave him the nice european car as a reward. :)
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Post by: GScholz on May 23, 2003, 02:21:50 AM: Naw Grun, it would have been a Peugot then. ;)
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Post by: mjolnir on May 23, 2003, 02:24:22 AM: Played with the wind settings offline, managed to get a 109G10 over 100,000 before WEP ran out. Of course, the fun part was bailing at that altitude.
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Post by: GRUNHERZ on May 23, 2003, 03:12:28 AM: Quote
Originally posted by GScholz
Naw Grun, it would have been a Peugot then. ;)

Germany is part of the syndicate.... :D I'm tellin you its the plain truth about Rip, he's an Airbus agent. Lets not forget he was a JG2 luftwhinie in the past but all of sudden became a marine pilot, very convenient cover, wouldnt you say? :)
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Post by: lazs2 on May 23, 2003, 08:14:50 AM: 5k above the ground is plenty. why risk a nosebleed... besides... when you go up high there is no one any good to fite with.
lazs
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Post by: Ghosth on May 23, 2003, 08:33:26 AM: 78.5 in Me 163, no wind, or uplift, normal fuel burn.

Peaceful up there :)
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Post by: -ammo- on May 23, 2003, 10:43:11 AM: I got to 67000 feet in a heavy lancaster once. I had started my climbout from a back field and went to run some errands. I forgot about it and when I came back, the thing was that high and still climbing at an astonishign rate of 1.5K a minute.
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Post by: Wlfgng on May 23, 2003, 11:09:28 AM: I fly lower than I live..

at least 3k lower actually
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Post by: GScholz on May 24, 2003, 10:38:05 PM: LOL Grun, nice conspiracy theory! (always wanted to say that to you) :D