Originally Posted by
tomgoodman
An A-37 crew pre-breathed oxygen and then flew @ 35,000 ft. It was a photo chase of an A-10 windshield washer test when AFFTC was looking for a solution to the gun-gas residue problem. They had to be very careful with the throttles to avoid engine rollback, but otherwise the SuperTweet did fine up there.
Oh my...can't imagine what that would do in terms of evolved gas disorders. A-37 had the J-85 engines, but those of us in the underperforming Tweet had the venerable J-69 centrifugal flow engines, with the highest noise to weight ratio of any aircraft in the inventory.