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New Airbus glider is set to become the highest-flying winged vehicle ever (sciencealert.com)
1 point by jonknee on Feb 5, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


This is really poorly researched -- "highest-flying winged vehicle ever" when it hasn't even reached 90K feet yet.

An A-12 achieved a sustained altitude of 90,000 feet fifty years ago. A Russian MiG-25 reached over 118,000 feet forty-eight years ago. [0]

[0] http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/mig25.html




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