Height, depth and spaceWorld record
Highest altitude reached by an airplane (zoom climb, MiG-25 prototype)
Record
37.65 km
23.395 mi
- Holder
- Alexandre Fedotov
- Year
- Standing since
- 1977 (49 years)
What to remember
On 31 August 1977, Alexandre Fedotov took a prototype of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 up to an altitude of 37.65 km. That is the altitude record for an airplane.
The method matters: a zoom climb, the manoeuvre used to reach that peak.
The aircraft was not a production model but a prototype from the MiG-25 family, with Fedotov at the controls.
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- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “Record d'altitude” (revision used 229680401). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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