James May At The Edge Of Space Part 1/3

James May at the Edge of Space is a documentary in which James May commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings. The programme tied in with another May documentary called James May on the Moon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvExCo43aq0&feature=channel_page

May is given the opportunity to fly to the edge of space in a Lockheed U-2 spy plane. To do this he first had to spend three days training with the United States Air Force at Beale Air Force Base and then learning how to use a space suit correctly. Following this he shown being taken on a 3 hour flight reaching an altitude of over 70,000 feet.

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[TrentAGarrett]

Wrong on the worlds highest flying plane the a-12 oxcart and the sr-71 can fly at 100,000 feet at around mach 3

[pieter615]

@TrentAGarrett True about the A-12 and the SR-71, they could fly higher than the U2, but are retired since 1998, 1999 for the ones owned by NASA. So at the moment the U2 is the worlds highest flying plane.

[Beholdthebeast]

Nobody can do a documentary like the british , Respect

[Gatotsu2009]

@randommagnum I am sure Jeremy will say something like "come on! power! speed!" and Richard is too short, I am sure they dont have a suit for him (also they dont allow hamster in space)"

[fifaplayer10]

Can anyone imagine instead of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collin's going to the Moon, Jeremy, Richard, and James went instead?

that would be funny!!!!

[DeadMemories03]

@TrentAGarrett I believe the official altitude record belongs to the MIG-25 something like 123,000 feet, think the U-2 is the highest flying single engine aircraft, might be wrong, definitely the highest flying plane in service at the minute though.

[DeadMemories03]

@cjs2327 Totally agree, SR-71 is my all time favourite plane. Being British I think its sad that our government stopped aircraft production in the early 60's we had some fantastic planes on the drawing board at the time, TSR.2, a super-sonic harrier etc. Least Lockheed made up for our loses =)

[cjs2327]

@DeadMemories03 Thanks. Lockheed has built some of the most beautifulest planes! U-2, A-12, SR-71, C-130, etc.

[rudiratte1]

@Beholdthebeast allow me to correct that, nobody can do a documentary like james may

[rudiratte1]

i absolutley love james may

[Beholdthebeast]

@DeadMemories03 I guess they dint have any money left for a good documentary then .

[DeadMemories03]

@Beholdthebeast And no-body can build planes like the americans, respect.