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The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird holds the official Air Speed Record for a crewed airbreathing jet engine aircraft with a speed of 3,530 km/h (2,190 mph). The record was set on 28 July 1976 by Eldon W. Joersz and George T. Morgan Jr. near Beale Air Force Base, California, USA. It was able to take off and land unassisted on conventional runways. [47]
In 1931, Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer (photo) reached a record altitude of 15,781 m. In 1932, Auguste Piccard and Max Cosyns made a second record-breaking ascent to 16,201 m. Auguste Piccard ultimately made a total of twenty-seven balloon flights, setting a final record of 23,000 m [citation needed]. 1783-08-15: 24 m (79 ft); Jean-François ...
12 October 1992. 13 October 1992. Concorde FAI "Westbound Around the World" world air speed record from Lisbon, Portugal. [27][28][29] Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru (Air France) 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds. 15 August 1995. 16 August 1995. Concorde with 98 passengers and crew, no equatorial crossing.
The flight endurance record is the longest amount of time an aircraft of a particular category spent in flight without landing. It can be a solo event, or multiple people can take turns piloting the aircraft, as long as all pilots remain in the aircraft. The limit initially was the amount of fuel that could be stored for the flight, but aerial ...
The flight data recorder for crashed flight MU5735. A flight data recorder (FDR; also ADR, for accident data recorder) is an electronic device employed to record instructions sent to any electronic systems on an aircraft. The data recorded by the FDR are used for accident and incident investigation.
A number of promotional or delivery flights have extended the record of longest non-stop flights by a commercial aircraft: March 23, 1976 ( 1976-03-23 ) : South African Airways' delivery flight of their first Boeing 747SP set a new record for nonstop flight by commercial aircraft.
List of unrecovered and unusable flight recorders. Flight data recorders (FDRs) and cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) in commercial aircraft continuously record information and can provide key evidence in determining the causes of an aircraft loss. The greatest depth from which a flight recorder has been recovered is 16,000 feet (4,900 m), for the ...
The Scaled Composites Model 311 Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer (registered N277SF) is an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan in which Steve Fossett first flew a solo nonstop airplane flight around the world in slightly more than 67 hours (2 days 19 hours) in 2005. The flight speed of 342 miles per hour (550 km/h) set the world record for the fastest ...