altitude

[jim cooper]

How high have you flown your Taylorcraft? Who set the altitude record for a piper cub? How High? 14000 ft? 18000FT? 20,000 Ft? 29500FT? JC

[M Towsley]

Re: altitude

10,700. Took about 30 minutes to get there and about the same amount of time to get down.

[jim cooper]

Re: altitude

The highest I have been in my BC12D is 4000 feet. That is very high for me. Betty Skelton set the record for the cub in the 1950's, 29,500 feet. She also set records in her Pitts biplane she called "Little Stinker". Where I fly, the guard also flys....Wart Hogs and C-130's often very low, more often at about 3500 ft. so I stay quite low. Recently two Hogs flew below me near the Chesapeake bay while I was at 2500. I doubt if they saw me. Gets my pulse going! JC

[N-43121]

Re: altitude

12,700 coming over the Alaska Range from Bethel to Palmer on a CAVU fall day. This was back when I had the 65hp engine. It took forever to get there and that was as high as I could get her to climb. I made good time on the way down!

[flyguy]

Re: altitude

Had a very light weight 12D-65 with 85 carb. (I didn't do it.) It was still going up at around 2-300 ft/min. at 12500, California winter. I think I mentioned the frozen spiders falling out of the overhead before here.
My very heavy -85 I have now made it to 14500 not too long ago. It was still going up pretty good, but I was getting stupid.
DC

[Ron Coleman]

Re: altitude

1962/63 65hp. bc12d-1 (ACE) 15,500 +/_ 50' engine went rich and quit again, and again, etc.
cold....darn cold....got real happy

RonC

[M Towsley]

Re: altitude

Read about Grace Huntington's altitude record in a Taylorcraft. It is here on the Foundation site: http://taylorcraft.org/grace-hunting...-record-x.html

[flyguy]

Re: altitude

One of these days I'm going to strip every thing off/out that I can remove, rent or borrow an oxygen system, get some training on it, and go for it. I'll have to talk to someone about props before then. The mixture control seems to function well, I suspect that will help.
DC

[Forrest Barber]

Re: altitude

BC12D ; went up to 12,000 , got cold and spun back down. Actually three spins , broke off at around 4000 ft desent each time less on the last one .... Then I took the F-21 prototype past 18,000 and the factory asked me to come back , had a bottle , BUT NO transponder .... That one surprised everyone. Still going up around 100 ft per minute.

[astjp2]

Re: altitude

15,900 in April in Alaska, vfr on top for 2 hours, temps were -8 and the only thing warm was my right foot. Kinda got a bad headache from not having O2, now I have a bottle I can carry in the baggage