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  2. Flight altitude record - Wikipedia

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    The highest current world absolute general aviation altitude record for air breathing jet-propelled aircraft is 37.650 kilometres (123,520 ft) set by Aleksandr Vasilyevich Fedotov in a Mikoyan-Gurevich E-266M (MiG-25M) on August 31, 1977.

  3. Flight distance record - Wikipedia

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    The flight time of 15h 8m giving an average speed of almost exactly 200 km/h. [61] [62] March 21, 1999: 40,814 km: Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones: Breitling Orbiter: Distance record for a balloon: January 31, 2015: 10,711 km: Troy Bradley and Leonid Tiukhtyaev: Two Eagles Balloon: Distance record for a straight gas balloon: April 23, 1988: ...

  4. Steve Fossett - Wikipedia

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    The next month, Fossett made a third flight around the world in order to break the absolute record for "Distance over a closed circuit without landing" (with takeoff and landing at the same airport). He took off from Salina, Kansas on March 14, 2006 and returned on March 17, 2006 after flying 25,262 statute miles (40,655 km).

  5. I slept through the longest flight in the world. Here's my ...

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    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 ...

  6. Aircraft records - Wikipedia

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    Year Airspeed Range Ceiling T/O Weight Engine power 1905 60.91 km/h (37.85 mph) USA Wilbur Wright Flyer III October 5, 1905 38.95 km (24.2 miles)

  7. Paper airplane sets world record while flying 82-miles - AOL

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    A team of auxiliary U.S. Air Force volunteers launched the paper aircraft from a weather balloon 96,563 feet (more than 18 miles) in the air. It Paper airplane sets world record while flying 82-miles

  8. Longest flights - Wikipedia

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    The return flight SQ 22, then flew a record ground distance of 16,600 kilometres (10,315 mi; 8,963 nmi) back to Newark. Despite the greater distance, SQ 22 averaged a slightly shorter 17 hours, 45 minutes because of prevailing high-altitude winds. [124]

  9. Caproni Ca.161 - Wikipedia

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    The Grob Strato 2C broke this record for piston-powered crewed airplanes generally in 1995, but as of 2024 it still stands for piston-powered biplanes, and for crewed single-engine piston aircraft. A final altitude record for floatplanes was set on 25 September 1939 in the float-equipped Ca.161 Idro , piloted by Nicola di Mauro to 13,542 m ...