Zoom Climbs - The Highest Life and Death Jet Flights to the Edge of Space.

🔒Remove your personal information from the web at https://JoinDeleteMe.com/DROID and use code DROID for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com Zoom climbs to the edge of space set the highest altitude records for jet aircraft taking off under their own power. Initially used as a method for the newly developed jet interceptors to gain extra height to reach incoming enemy bombers, they were also used to test new aircraft. They were also used as a precursor to the space race to give potential astronauts the experience of flying in a near vacuum of space where the dynamics of flight changes dramatically. In this respect, the highest flights ever by a US jet aircraft were made in the early 1960s and stood until a Soviet MiG-25RB just beat them some 14 years later. This is the story of the life and death flights to the edge of space. Read Maj. Robert W. Smith’s account of Yeager's crash below. He set the US record height and many other of the highest zoom climbs without issue and was Yeager's instructor. http://www.kalimera.org/nf104/stories/stories_13.html The 1952 Cranfield Report into the early zoom climb methods and theory https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1826/7466/COA_Report_No_57_Apr_1952.pdf Written reseached and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage, USAF, Lockheed, US DoD, Space Affairs, SkyshowTV To give one off tips and donations please use the following : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/curiousdroid or paypal.me/curiousdroid And a big thanks go to our Patreons for the on going support. Eριχθόνιος JL Adriaan von Grobbe Alex K Alipasha Sadri Andrew Gaess Andrew Smith Bengt Stromberg Brian Kelly Carl Soderstrom Charles Thacker Daniel Armer erik ahrsjo Florian Muller George Bishop II Glenn Dickinson inunotaisho Jesse Postier John & Becki Johnston John A Cooper Jonathan Travers Ken Schwarz L D László Antal Lorne Diebel Mark Heslop Matti Malkia Patrick M Brennan Paul Freed Paul Shutler Peter Engrav Robert Sanges Ryan Emmenegger Sirrianus Dagovax stefan hufenbach Steve Ehrmann Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort tesaft Tim Alberstein Tyron Muenzer