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This F-104 became the first aircraft to simultaneously hold the world speed, rate of climb and altitude records when on May 16, 1958, U.S. Air Force Capt. Walter W. Irwin set a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph
In 1924 the British made another attempt on Everest, and the world altitude record was again broken. On 4 June, Edward Norton, without supplemental oxygen, reached a point on the mountain's Great Couloir 8,572.8 m (28,126 ft) high, his companion Howard Somervell having turned around a short distance before. [ 24 ]
Prior to the 4 September 2017 flight, the glider absolute world altitude record stood at 15,460 meters (50,727 feet), which is the altitude reached by Steve Fossett and Einar Enevoldson during Perlan Mission I. The previous record was 14,938 meters (49,009 feet).
World altitude record (mountaineering), the highest altitude to have been reached by mountaineers This page was last edited on 12 September 2008, at 22:27 (UTC). ...
The IAAF considers marks set at high altitude as acceptable for record consideration. However, high altitude can significantly assist sprint performances. [13] One estimate suggests times in the 200 m sprint can be assisted by between 0.09s and 0.14s with the maximum allowable tailing wind of 2.0 m/s, and gain 0.3s at altitudes over 2000m. [14 ...
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, the self-proclaimed "world's first commercial spaceline," made history again this week. Announcing the successful completion of its second faster-than-sound ...
Ross and Hugo Turner take a paraglider-style aircraft to 8,000ft in the French Alps.
The Potez 506 was a modification of the Potez 501 observation/bomber aircraft, itself derived via the Potez 50 from the widely used Potez 25, first flown in 1926.In 1932 Cyril Uwins set a world altitude record of 13,404 m (43,976 ft) in a Vickers Vespa VII, which the Potez 506 was designed to better. [1]