F-15A zoom climbed to 100,000 ft in 1975?

[mrivc211]

All these years and I got curious how high a fighter jet has been. I know it wasn't a production model and it had equipment removed from it making it lighter but damn. 100,000 ft? and in only 3 minutes.

World Record for Time to Climb to a Height of 30000 Meters Archives - This Day in Aviation

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

There are some cool movies on youtube covering this flight

 

[z987k]

So that's like a step climb, but faster? I'm going to ask ATC for a zoom climb next time. We'll climb at .86 instead of .82.

 

[gotWXdagain]

So that's like a step climb, but faster? I'm going to ask ATC for a zoom climb next time. We'll climb at .86 instead of .82.

Also they were so high that the engines had flamed out and they were riding a ballistic arc.

 

[ahw01]

So that's like a step climb, but faster? I'm going to ask ATC for a zoom climb next time. We'll climb at .86 instead of .82.

60 degree pull up, 4g so I remember from the video