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James May on the moon promo

Hm, you're right. That plane isn't as fast as I thought. :(

The U-2's ceiling is more than 85,000 feet (25,900m), which is impressive enough. It would have been nice if May could have used a British aircraft. The Mach 2+ English Electic Lightning could reach the same altitude, but I doubt the 2-seat trainer version could.

http://www.fighter-planes.com/info/bac.htm

"The official ceiling was a secret amongst the general public and low security RAF documents simply stated 60,000+ ft (18,000 m), although it was well known within the RAF to be capable of much greater heights. Recently the actual operating ceiling has been made public by the late Brian Carroll, a former RAF Lightning pilot and ex-Lightning Chief Examiner, who reports taking an F-53 Lightning up to 87,300 feet (26,600 m) at which level "Earth curvature was visible and the sky was quite dark". In 1984, during a major NATO exercise, Flt Lt Mike Hale intercepted an American U-2 at a height which they had previously considered safe from interception. Records show that Hale climbed to 88,000 ft (26,800 m) in his F3 Lightning. Hale also participated in time-to-height and acceleration trials against F-104 Starfighters from Aalborg. He reports that the Lightnings won all races easily, with the exception of the low level supersonic acceleration, which was a dead-heat. "
 
Coincidentally, I just started watching HBO's From the Earth to the Moon docmentary/drama hybrid. Never saw anything in quite that format, but it's instantly engaging. Love the scene where the head of NASA contemplates putting a man on the moon in nine friggen years and returning him safely - anybody want my job? :rommie: That must have been downright terrifying.
 
The BBC does not work on my free view and my tv untuned it self thank god you can now watch bbc live on Iplayer.
 
You know I said my media centre was being a bitch? I didn't realise how much of one, it recorded 4 minutes of Top Gear and that's it... Not happy.
 
Ive Just watched this again.
Felt sorry for him when he freak out in the suit he looked really disappointed in himself.
How cool is this the pilot that James went up with has joined another board i post on and his answering other people questions.
 
How cool is this the pilot that James went up with has joined another board i post on and his answering other people questions.

Nice, appeared like a cool guy on the show too. :)
Link?
This is a link to his first post but i do not know if it will work for non-members.
http://forums.finalgear.com/top-gea...n-for-new-programme-33830/page-3/#post1001689

This is the link to finalgear.com. once you get there you have to go to topgear section then click on TG host shows and there a thread called May also most going to the moon and the guy who is called Cabi starts posting on page 3.
http://forums.finalgear.com/
If anyone does join please do NOT start i know who the stig is thread.
It does not go down well any more:rolleyes:
 
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