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The highest altitude obtained by an electrically powered aircraft is 29.524 kilometres (96,863 ft) on August 14, 2001, by the NASA Helios, and is the highest altitude in horizontal flight by a winged aircraft. This is also the altitude record for propeller driven aircraft, FAI class U (Experimental / New Technologies), and FAI class U-1.d ...
Hughes Aircraft Co H-4 Hercules: 1948 1,540 km/h (957 mph) USA Charles Yeager Bell X-1 March 26, 1948 19,507 m (64,000 ft) USA Charles Yeager Bell X-1 May 26, 1948 2,740 kgf thrust (6,041 lbf thrust) USSR Klimov Klimov VK-1: 1949 37,165 km (23,093 miles) USA James Gallagher Boeing B-50A March 2, 1949 21,916 m (71,902 ft) USA Frank Everest Bell ...
On August 13, 2001, [1] the Helios Prototype piloted remotely by Greg Kendall reached an altitude of 96,863 feet (29,524 m), a world record for sustained horizontal flight by a winged aircraft. [4] The altitude reached was more than 11,000 feet (3,400 m) — or more than 2 miles (3.2 km) — above the previous altitude record for sustained ...
By RYAN GORMAN A paper airplane set a new Guinness world record as it flew 82 miles this month. A team of auxiliary U.S. Air Force volunteers launched the paper aircraft from a weather balloon ...
The SR-71 was the world's fastest and highest-flying air-breathing operational manned aircraft throughout its career and it still holds that record. On 28 July 1976, SR-71 serial number 61-7962, piloted by then Captain Robert Helt, broke the world record: an "absolute altitude record" of 85,069 feet (25,929 m).
The Caproni Ca.161 was an aircraft built in Italy in 1936, in an attempt to set a new world altitude record. It was a conventional biplane with two-bay, staggered wings of equal span, based on Caproni's Ca.113 design. The pressure-suited pilot was accommodated in an open cockpit.
Ross and Hugo Turner take a paraglider-style aircraft to 8,000ft in the French Alps.
Altitude record may refer to: Flight altitude record, the highest altitude to have been reached in an aircraft; World altitude record (mountaineering), the highest altitude to have been reached by mountaineers