Canopy-less Flight: Crazy at speeds greater than Mach 2 From Popsci.com:
Feel the breeze in your hair.
The spectacular picture above was (reportedly) shot high above the set of a movie. Producers for an unknown movie paid a couple of Russian pilots to fly their SU-35UB jet at speeds past Mach 2.0... without a canopy! After the flight, the pilot said, "While on this speed I even managed to pull out my fingers in glove for an inch or two outside - it became heated very fast because of immense friction force plane undergoes with the air."
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My Comment: The things that people do for a buck.