Altitude record information

This listing of flight altitude records are the records set for the highest aeronautical flights conducted in the atmosphere, set since the age of ballooning...

Altitude record may refer to: Flight altitude record, the highest altitude to have been reached in an aircraft World altitude record (mountaineering),...

Altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object. The exact definition and...

The effects of high altitude on humans are mostly the consequences of reduced partial pressure of oxygen in the atmosphere. The medical problems that are...

The Armstrong limit or Armstrong's line is a measure of altitude above which atmospheric pressure is sufficiently low that water boils at the normal temperature...

requirements for recognition. Flight altitude record Fastest propeller-driven aircraft List of vehicle speed records Lockheed X-7 - Mach 4.31 (2,881 mph)...

of the world's highest mountain, in which his team achieved a world altitude record of 27,300 ft (8,321 m) using supplemental oxygen. Once, when asked...

Laboratory) at Yuma Proving Ground currently holds the world record for the highest altitude, 180 km (110 mi), that a gun-fired projectile has achieved...

surface without vehicular power on his descent. He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical freefall distance without a drogue parachute, and vertical...

level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In...

world's absolute speed record, having attained a top speed of 752.943 mph, (1,211.744 km/h). It also set a new time-to-altitude record, flying from a standing...

extremely high altitudes. On 29 August 2006 Steve Fossett and Einar Enevoldson, the pilots of Perlan Mission I, broke the existing altitude record for gliders...

the climbing leader he would have the opportunity to break the altitude record. The record at the time was held by either William Woodman Graham, Emil Boss...

at altitudes between 22,000 feet (6,700 m) and 49,000 feet (15,000 m) in 1997. On September 11, 1995, Pathfinder set an unofficial altitude record for...

could fly at a higher altitude than any other aircraft in the world, and in 1957, a Canberra established a world altitude record of 70,310 feet (21,430 m)...

World War II. Woman's world altitude record: 14,000 ft (1922) First woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean (1928) Speed records for 100 km (and with 500 lb (230 kg)...

one turboprop (record altitude), one reciprocating engine (5,000 feet (1,500 m) above record altitude), one sailplane (record altitude), and one rocket...

and multistage/cluster rockets. Every record, as of October 2023, is listed below: Currently highest altitude record within New Zealand was set by Martin...