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The balloon rose at a speed of 250 metres per minute (820 ft/min) and reached an altitude of 53.7 km (176,000 ft), surpassing the previous world record set in 2002 [10] This was the greatest height a flying object reached without using rockets or a launch with a cannon.
[12] [13] He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical freefall distance without a drogue parachute, and vertical speed without a drogue. Though he still holds the two latter records, the first was broken two years later, when on 24 October 2014, Alan Eustace jumped from 135,890 feet (41.42 km; 25.74 mi) with a drogue. [14] [15] [16]
Bridgeman, Leonard Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1948. MacMillan, 1948. Bridgeman, Leonard Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1959–60. Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1959. Fillingham, Paul Basic Guide to Flying. New York: Hawthorn, 1975. ISBN 0-801-50525-9; Jackson, Paul Janes All the Worlds Aircraft 2004–05, Janes Publishing Company, 2004.
Year Date Distance Pilot Aircraft Notes 2006: February 8–12, 2006: 41,467.46 km: Steve Fossett: GlobalFlyer: Single pilot (Steve Fossett) flight. [1] [2] 1986: December 14–23, 1986: 40,212.14 km: Richard Glenn Rutan and Jeana Yeager: Rutan Voyager: Circumnavigation. Fédération Aéronautique Internationale record holder up to 2006 (current ...
Red Bull Stratos was a high-altitude skydiving project involving Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner.On 14 October 2012, Baumgartner flew approximately 39 kilometres (24 mi) [1] [2] [3] into the stratosphere over New Mexico, United States, in a helium balloon before free falling in a pressure suit and then parachuting to Earth. [4]
Height 57 cm (1 ft 10 + 7 ⁄ 16 in) Gul Mohammed (February 15, 1957 – October 1, 1997) of New Delhi , India , according to Guinness World Records , was the shortest adult human being of his time whose existence and height have been independently verified.
The 16-year-old has been growing out her hair since she was six, and now her hair is measured at a whopping five feet, seven inches — which is longer than her height.
On 25 July 1973, Aleksandr Fedotov reached 35,230 m (115,580 ft) in a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25M with a 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) payload, and 36,240 m (118,900 ft) with no load (an absolute world record). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In the thin air, the engines flamed out and the aircraft coasted in a ballistic trajectory by inertia alone.