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LA RTC / palmdale has alot of military air-traffic. Within 100 miles of it are major military installations in ridgecrest, ca (China Lake Naval Air Station etc
by 001sky 13y ago
LA RTC / palmdale has alot of military air-traffic.
Within 100 miles of it are major military installations in ridgecrest, ca (China Lake Naval Air Station etc).
It would be very interesting (if unfortunate) if a recent SW upgrade could not handle things flying in and out of that part of the world.
While that did involve the SR71, the US maintains several airframes capable of 65K ceiling including the f15
http://www.boeing.com/boeing/history/mdc/eagle.page http://www.boeing.com/boeing/history/mdc/eagle.page
This is a famous story, and almost surely was LA RTC.
"Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."
I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money."
http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-1079127041 http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-107912...
- dalke 13y agoI fully confess to being almost ignorant on this topic. I am only conjecturing. I'm curious though to know how often aircraft go above 62,000 feet. While the F-15 reached over 100,000 ft., the same page lists a service ceiling of 65,000 feet. And while the SR-71 easily flew at higher altitudes, it stopped flying before the affected computer system started running. I can easily think of other problems; perhaps there was a problem with the U-2's transponder, or perhaps it's a combination of altitude and speed, ... or I'm sure you can conjecture scenarios as well as I.