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World's Highest

  • The Airbus Perlan Mission II glider over the Andes
    Aircraft
    Perlan 2 sets new glider altitude world record
    Airbus's Perlan Mission II took another step to the edge of space yesterday as it set a new record in the skies over Patagonia to become the first engineless glider to soar to over 52,000 ft (15,800 m), surpassing the previous record of 50,727 ft (15,462 m) set by the unpressurized Perlan 1 in 2006.
  • A view of Earth captured from the paper airplane at 96,563 feet (Photo: 1st Lt Gary Brown)
    Aircraft
    US team breaks Guinness World Record for highest paper airplane flight
    For most people, paper airplanes are something you launched across classrooms as a kid. A team of US Air Force auxiliary volunteers, however, has been taking it far more seriously. The team launched a paper plane from a high-altitude balloon at 96,563 ft, taking the world record in the process.