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In 1924 the British made another attempt on Everest, and the world altitude record was again broken. On 4 June, Edward Norton, without supplemental oxygen, reached a point on the mountain's Great Couloir 8,572.8 m (28,126 ft) high, his companion Howard Somervell having turned around a short distance before. [ 24 ]
This F-104 became the first aircraft to simultaneously hold the world speed, rate of climb and altitude records when on May 16, 1958, U.S. Air Force Capt. Walter W. Irwin set a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph 1959: September 4 94,658 ft 28,852 m Vladimir Ilyushin: Sukhoi Su-9: turbojet: 1959: December 6 98,557 ft 30,040 m
Prior to the 4 September 2017 flight, the glider absolute world altitude record stood at 15,460 meters (50,727 feet), which is the altitude reached by Steve Fossett and Einar Enevoldson during Perlan Mission I. The previous record was 14,938 meters (49,009 feet).
Boulet set several rotorcraft records [2] [3] for distance, [4] altitude [5] [6] [7] and speed. [8]On 21 June 1972, Boulet set the world record (still valid as of 2020 [7]) for the highest altitude reached by a helicopter, when he piloted an Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama to an altitude of 12,442 metres (40,820 ft). [9]
World altitude record (mountaineering), the highest altitude to have been reached by mountaineers This page was last edited on 12 September 2008, at 22:27 (UTC). ...
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, the self-proclaimed "world's first commercial spaceline," made history again this week. Announcing the successful completion of its second faster-than-sound ...
Ross and Hugo Turner take a paraglider-style aircraft to 8,000ft in the French Alps.
SINGAPORE − I did a lot of flying last week, even as an airline reporter. My journeys even helped me complete an avgeek rite of passage: I took the longest flight in the world, from New York to ...