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Wait....your Spanish professor was a chick....right?

I’m guessing 100 to 200 feet. I’ve only flown one time, and that was in a float plane. We took off flew once around the lake , and landed! That was enough for me!

At the controls, FL 390.

Question I have is how low have you flown? I made a fella jump out of his sampan on day, and my rookie copilot wet his pants. 100 knots and the skids 2-3’ above sea level. 🤠

I have done five feet over Cambodia in an O-2, and 50,100 in a T-38. Supersonic once (It is frowned upon over the US)

Also flew through a tree - climbing - in Cambodia. It is hard to explain how an aircraft that took off gray came home green.

My flight from LAX to Sydney last year cruised at 40,000 feet.

Same engine, 2 stroke Rotax. Single ignition, it was a snowmobile engine. I got my Goldwing 6,000 feet above the hard red Georgia clay one time. Ground was 400 feet above sea level.

Whatever altitude they fly going over the polar ice cap when flying back and forth from the World to Europe.




Frog----OUT!

I’ve flown at 51,000 ft a handful of times in a Learjet 31A. It was an amazing performer, especially in the higher Flight Levels with it’s Longhorn wing. Only held 4100 pounds of fuel, so we had to fly in the mid to high 40’s to get any range out of it. We routinely flew between 45,000 and 49,000.

Quick story,.. I’d have to go back in my logbook and verify, but we left Tucson one morning on a test flight and went straight to 51,000. We were hot dogging so to speak, but from what I recall we leveled at 51 in a skosh under 20 min. Plane was light and temps all the way up were below ISA. Back then, there wasn’t another corporate jet made capable of that type of performance. Even today, only a few are. Definitely a fun airplane to fly. Quite sexy too!!

The highest I have ever flown by my self my feet cleared the ground by over 3 ft as I became the ground for a welding machine. I did a reverse swan dive knocked out by the volt.

Do not know how high we were when we flew in a jet for vacation. I do not think that counts as flying when you still have your feet planted on a floor of some type.
That's not flying that's riding.

An RCH above 43,000'.
Command Post called us, said start to step climb to save fuel. We needed to extend our mission by two hours, the aircraft that was scheduled to replace us on alert was having an issue getting cocked and locked. We couldn't land until then.

Really? I've back-packed at 10,500 without oxygen. Wouldn't think sitting on my ass at that altitude would "require" it.

I think we were at 39,000 over Greenland , on way to Italy - British Airways.

Yeah, I think the question needs a little tuning.

I wanted to know if it is highest with, or without an airplane...

And if its the highest with or without drugs?

I flowed over the handlebars on my bike once, my bud said I was tin feet in the air.



Okay okay, it was more than once.

In. Blackhawk, 12000 feet, 45000 in an Airbus.

I had a Lear 45 right up to it service ceiling of 51000 just awhile ago. ISA -15

Absolute highest, 42K as I remember. Commercial .. 747 I believe, LAX to the east coast.

I just sat there smiling sitting on that sack of seeds........

55,000 in an F-4S hauling a$$, smooth as glass.

On another flight hit Mach 2 in an F-4S.

12 nautical miles a minute flying back to Atsugi after a deployment off of Iran. Subsonic with a good tailwind. 😁

White Lightning 1968

I've flown commercial to Australia and to Asia multiple time, so probably around 40,000. As a pilot, I have had my 206 up to 8,500. I don't have oxygen on board, and that is the highest I ever had a need to fly.