It’s probably a catch. It could actually be a good investment for somebody that has the money.
Seems the catch is this, it climbs at orbital speeds are you up to it?
- Service ceiling 60,000 ft
- Climb rate (initial) 65,000 ft / min
I think they mean 6500ft/min? unless you VS = 1000ft/s which is higher than speed of sound !!
Here is a nice business, buy it and sell tickets to those singles who can’t afford Virgin Galactic 300k£/ticket
Ibra wrote:
I think they mean 6500ft/min? unless you VS = 1000ft/s which is higher than speed of sound !!
Wikipedia also says 65,000 fpm initially.
Yes; the F15 is in the same ballpark.
I wonder what ITAR material is in a MIG-29…
I bragged about it several times already, but hey, I have flown in one and it was the best flying experience I had. We flew over 17 km high and broke the speed of sound. It started with speeding up to 800kmh just over the ground and an 8G transition to a vertical climb.
About this one, I think the price is very high. Would rather look for one in post-USSR and renovate.
Noe wrote:
I wonder what ITAR material is in a MIG-29…
I don’t think it is sold loaded but they mean the whole thing = “ITAR material”
Airborne_Again wrote:
Wikipedia also says 65,000 fpm initially.
That’s really steep/fast, I wonder how much it really take to get to the top 60000ft ceiling but something like 10min sounds reasonable (at cape canaveral you get 5min of view :) )
Ibra wrote:
I wonder how much it really take to get to the top 60000ft ceiling but something like 10min sounds reasonable
Wikipedia says 21,500 fpm average to 20,000 ft. I don’t know how to extrapolate ROC for a jet fighter…
Airborne_Again wrote:
Wikipedia says 21,500 fpm average to 20,000 ft. I don’t know how to extrapolate ROC for a jet fighter…
Depends how much concave/convex (probably never convex) the ROC vs height but on a linear profile (where ROC = 65000ft/min at height = 0ft and ROC = 0ft/min at height = 60000ft), I would say 2min whereas on a concave exponential that flattens at 60000ft, I would say an eternity
From the number you quote at 20000ft it seems more like 2min (or 2.7618min if you like non-linear curves and “twice half-life” concept), something that goes along the kind of operations the aircraft is aimed for