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1991 Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude
1985 Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor 1980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m) 1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125,524') 1963 Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km 1962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft) 1961 Lieutenant Colonel Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude 1959 J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513m 1958 Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m 1957 USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m) 1956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+ 1954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM 1948 John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m)) 1946 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico 1942 Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km) 1935 Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD 1933 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m) 1911 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft) 1910 Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record) 1910 Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude 1909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m 1909 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m 1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude |
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