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On 25 July 1973, Aleksandr Fedotov reached 35,230 m (115,600 feet) in a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25M with 1,000 kg payload, and 36,240 m (118,900 feet) with no load (an absolute world record) One would assume by means of zoom climb.

No better example than the good old P-51, speedier with the https://www.aircraftsandplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Red-Tail-North-American-P-51-Mustang.jpg but better look out in the less aerodynamic version http://cdn.wallpapersafari.com/19/80/wdo3Va.jpg

"THE MARAUDER" VERSUS "THE INVADER" By Major General John 0. Moench (August 1993) I think it's about time the truth is known. I write this in appreciation of the fact most of the persons of the time of the decision to rename the A-26 as the B-26 have now "Gone west" or are disinclined to...

The Americans did fly the 163 but only as a glider towed by a B-29. They had plans to make powered flights but the wing delamination precluded that, they did comment on the variability of the workmanship in the five 163's they had, and swapped wings to make up an airworthy example.

Used to fly the S-76 where Dextron oil was a permitted lubricant for the main gearbox, we found after a period of operation with high OAT's the pressure would drop below limits. Investigation found the oil still passed specs and the opinion was the long chain molecules were being chopped into...

I think the good chap is really confused, he seems to be talking of the Wellington with mention of the geodesic airframe, again incorrect with the tubular steel mention, they were pressed duralumin.

Callum, Without going back to my notes the author had known Brown personally and was friends with him for a period of some forty years, he only started putting the book together after Brown had passed. I had contact with the author at the very start of his penning the bio. With respect to...

Read the book, loaded with information, and obviously you haven't read his M.52 book so your in absolutely no position to draw any conclusion, end of discussion. Sorry about the post above, this site doesn't have a delete function?

It's all that is necessary. In Brown's case so much of what he has said is false and easily provable, his book on the M.52 is replete with false information, his youth and adopting Father being a pilot in the RFC and taking him flying are but one, so ergo, anything he has said stands for close...

You need to read "Winkle".

Hardly call those interesting I'm afraid, now if they were of Browns attack on the Bf 109 or shooting down the two Fiat BR.20 as he claims in the Spanish Civil War, or any photo of him in Spain during the period, his biographer who had full access to Brown's photos/papers has been unable to...

I'm afraid a lot of what Brown has to say is bollocks. He was an orphan who was adopted having been born in the Salvation Army's Mothers' Hospital in Hackney to a single mother, nor was his adopting father a pilot in the RFC, he was in the RFC but in an unknown ground support role, after the war...

Researched this some time ago. It was said that all new aircraft had a Bf data plate, aircraft that had been reworked because of accident or battle damage and possibly incorporated components from a variety of wrecks were often given a Me data plate, this being a result of officialdom paperwork...

Njaco I can see where the buttons got crossed, thank you for the thread.