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The current world-record for highest cannon projectile flight is held by Project HARP’s 410 mm (16 in) space gun prototype, which fired a 180 kg (400 lb) Martlet 2 projectile to a record height of 180 kilometres (590,000 ft; 110 mi) in Yuma, Arizona, on November 18, 1966.
The gliding flight consisted of four legs along the eastern side of the Andes mountain range. 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 ...
124.69 km (77.48 miles) USA Wilbur Wright Wright A December 31, 1908 110 m (361 ft) USA Wilbur Wright Wright A December 18, 1908 544 kg (1,200 lb) USA Wilbur Wright Wright A 59 kW (79 hp) France Gobron-Brille Gobron 1909 76.96 km/h (47.82 mph) France Louis Blériot Blériot XII August 28, 1909 234.21 km (145.53 miles) France Henry Farman HF.1 ...
Toggle Record flights subsection. ... or 19.34 miles. This set the official world record for the highest speed ever recorded by a ... Height: 13 ft 1 in (3.99 m) [d]
This distance set a new record for the longest aircraft flight in history, breaking the old records of 24,987 miles (40,213 km) in an airplane and 25,360 miles (40,810 km) in a balloon. The landing was made at Bournemouth Airport, England (short of the planned destination at Kent), because of a generator failure at 40,000 feet (12,000 m ...
On 8 May 1937, Lieutenant Colonel Mario Pezzi broke the world altitude record with a flight to 15,655 m (51,362 ft). The following year, Pezzi broke the record again in the more powerful Ca.161bis, making a flight to 17,083 m (56,047 ft) on 22 October 1938. [1]
On 2 May 1962, Wimpenny, aged 39, piloted the Puffin, pedalling like a cyclist to make the propeller drive the aircraft, and he achieved a flight distance of 993 yards, then a world record which was to stand for ten years. [2] [3] [4] [5]
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