Highest altitude for WW2 single engine prop fighter?

[Zaggy]

The Ta's rarely got really high due to Pressurisation issues (ie: canopy seals didnt seal), and because the B-29 threat simply did not eventuate. A good number of Ta 152H's appear to have been fitted with the standard Fw190 blown canopy, as was the short winged Ta152E and BMW powered short winged Ta152C.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

The Ta's rarely got really high due to Pressurisation issues (ie: canopy seals didnt seal), and because the B-29 threat simply did not eventuate. A good number of Ta 152H's appear to have been fitted with the standard Fw190 blown canopy, as was the short winged Ta152E and BMW powered short winged Ta152C.

Only one Ta 152E prototype was produced. The Ta 152E production like was switched over to C's, and no E's entered service.

 

[Wiking]

Are details being mixed up? this from wiki …. Towards the end of August 1942, the Luftwaffe began launching high-level bombing raids against England. A unit called the Höhenkampfkommando der Versuchsstelle für Höhenflüge, equipped with a small number of Junkers Ju 86R bombers, was able to bomb England from above 40,000 ft without impediment from RAF fighters, or from anti-aircraft guns. On one such attack on 28 August a single bomb dropped on Bristol killed 48 people and injured another 46.[71][72] To counter the threat, the "High Altitude Flight" was formed at RAF Northolt; this unit used a pair of Spitfire Mk Vcs which were converted into IXs by Rolls-Royce at the Hucknall plant. These were stripped of everything not required for the role of high-level interception, lightening them by 450 lb each. On 12 September 1942 Flying Officer Emanuel Galitzine, flying BS273[nb 4], successfully intercepted a Ju 86R piloted by Fw Horst Göetz and commanded by Leutnant Erich Sommer[nb 5] above Southampton at 41,000 ft. The ensuing battle went up to 43,000 ft and was the highest air battle of the war. However, problems were caused by the freezing air at that altitude and the combat was not decisive: the port cannon suffered a jam and, whenever the pilot fired a burst, the aircraft would slew and fall out of the sky.[74] The bomber escaped safely with just one hit to its port wing, but having found it to be vulnerable to the RAF at high altitudes, the Luftwaffe launched no further high-altitude attacks against England.[75][76]

Indeed - Here is a rather good YouTube video on this particular subject by Mark Felton Productions... here:


Cheers,
- Art

 

[TheMadPenguin]

P-47D service ceiling 43000.
P-38L service ceiling 44000.
Buuuuut these weren't 1942 numbers IIRC.