Ferrari Mailing List: Re: *****SPAM***** Re: *****SPAM***** [NFC] Balloon ride to space...

[Rick Moseley (ramosel]

Shasta and LA....

Were you coming out of Hamilton?  or Beale?

On Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 08:32:28 AM PDT, Luke Graves <buyer1austin [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Had no compressor stalls or anything.  I was at VMAX at 35k, think that I was doing about 1.4 indicated and snapped up on the U-2 with about a 40-45 degree pitch angle.  Coming over the top inverted, I had to hold 1/2 G to keep from Pitching Up (or down).  I could see Mt Shasta and parts of LA.  It was quite dark above me.  I let the nose slowly down to a 45 degree dive angle and accelerated to 450kias before I rolled out and came out of A/B.  I was so in the moment during the whole intercept that I never thought about going above 50k without a Pressure Suit til I was back on the ground.

 

Yes we had the long A/B on the J-57 and the B model was the fastest 101 at 1.8 Mach.  It was a Pig to fly though.

 

Never heard about putting the J-79 into the Voodoo

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From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+buyer1=airmail.net [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Rick Moseley
Sent: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 12:36 AM
To: Col Luke Graves
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: *****SPAM***** Re: [Ferrari] *****SPAM***** [NFC] Balloon ride to space...

Luke, was the B model the one that used the J-57 with the long AB?

Still, 61k in a Voodoo…. with a J-57… That thing must have been gasping for air.  

I know with the F-4 on the horizon, the guys at Wheelus talked about a Voodoo with J-79s… did that ever happen?

From: Luke Graves
Sent: October 5, 2021 6:16 AM
To: 'Peter Rychel'
Cc: 'The FerrariList'; Luke Graves
Subject: RE: *****SPAM***** [Ferrari] [NFC] Balloon ride to space...

I got an F-101B up to 60k ft; that was enough for me!!!

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From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+buyer1=airmail.net [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Peter Rychel
Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 11:21 PM
To: Col Luke Graves
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: *****SPAM***** [Ferrari] [NFC] Balloon ride to space...

So, as much as there was some hesitation from ‘List members to take a roller-coaster-rocket-ride to space, how about a graceful float to space?:

www.space.com - world view space tourism stratosphere balloon

For concours-winning Ferrari Mondial money, one can take a peaceful, hours-long ride to the edge of space.

Thing with this is, if things do go awry, you could just pull a Joe Kittinger/Felix Baumgartner and parachute safely back to earth. Win-win...

www.youtube.com - Felix Jumps From The Stratosphere | Earth Lab

Peter

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