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),...

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

high-altitude balloons have been used since the 1930s for research and in seeking flight altitude records, including Auguste Piccard's flights up to...

Flight record may refer to: Flight endurance record Flight distance record Flight altitude record Flight airspeed record Longest flights This disambiguation...

1945. Reitsch set more than 40 flight altitude records and women's endurance records in gliding and unpowered flight,[better source needed] before and...

determined to make even more impressive flight demonstrations; in the ensuing days and weeks he set new records for altitude and duration. On September 28, Wilbur...

its 29th and final flight, Enevoldson reached an altitude of over 60,700 feet (18,500 m), which exceeded the official altitude record for all propeller-driven...

women's record, only in-flight time is counted World record Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States Flight altitude record Transcontinental...

minutes, the first solo around-the-world flight in 1933, and the flight altitude record in 1934, reaching 50,000 feet. The Winnie Mae was sold to the Smithsonian...

after the landing of the Strato-Lab V balloon flight, which set an altitude record for manned balloon flight which stood until 2012. Prather was born on...

(Paris–London–Paris), in which he came second. On 4 September 1911, he set an altitude record of 3,950 m (12,960 ft). The following year, on 6 September 1912, after...

This is a list of birds by flight height. Birds portal Organisms at high altitude List of birds by flight speed Laybourne, Roxie C. (December 1974). "Collision...

1980–2000. In flight, he holds the world record for highest altitude gained in a hot air balloon as of 2023, and also set a microlight endurance record in 1988...

14 October 2012 flight did not break the FAI Absolute Altitude (#2325) record for balloon flight set in 1961 by Malcolm Ross, which requires the balloonist...

in 1863), piloting a British Association flight from Wolverhampton, England that achieved a record altitude with James Glaisher in 1862, reaching at least...

breaking Felix Baumgartner's world record. The jump was from 135,890 feet (41.42 km) and lasted 15 minutes, an altitude record that stands as of 2024[update]...

of the king. Their 25-minute flight travelled slowly about 5½ miles (some 9 km) to the southeast, attaining an altitude of 3,000 feet, before returning...

15:08:33, the captain of flight 4184 requested and received a clearance to continue the climb to the final en route altitude of 16,000 feet (4,877 m)...

Bell X-2 program, in which he set an altitude record of 126,200 feet (38,470 m) in 1956. For this suborbital flight above most of the atmosphere, he became...

on breaking the world altitude record for a hang glider release from a balloon taking off from Wadi Rum, Jordan to an altitude of 41,300 feet Don't Try...

absolute world record for hot air balloon flight. Ascending from Plano, Texas, on 6 June 1988, Lindstrand set a new world altitude record for hot-air balloons...

mesosphere, Flight 35, and the only two flights that exceeded 100 kilometres (62 miles) in altitude, Flight 90 (on July 19, 1963: 106 km (66 mi)) and Flight 91...

an altitude of 20 to 50 km above waypoints, for weeks. High-altitude, long endurance flight has been studied since at least 1983, and demonstrator programs...

usage. In aviation, altitude is typically measured relative to mean sea level or above ground level to ensure safe navigation and flight operations. In geometry...

rotorcraft flight testing. Boulet set several rotorcraft records for distance, altitude and speed. On 21 June 1972, Boulet set the world record (still valid...

flying a crewed balloon higher than anyone before, a record that stood until Felix Baumgartner's flight on October 14, 2012. Piantanida was born August 15...

participated in the Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior high-altitude balloon flight projects from 1956 to 1960 and was the first man to fully witness...

a glider into the stratosphere on August 29, 2006. The flight set the Absolute Altitude Record for gliders at 15,460 metres (50,720 ft). Since the glider...

He even recorded his own pulse at various altitudes". In 1871, Glaisher arranged for the publication of his book about the balloon flights, Travels in...