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It happened today, on 31 August: altitude record, 37,650 m, with MiG-25 airplane
Lausanne, Switzerland - It was 1977: it still stands currently, after exactly forty years
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Alexandr Vasilievich Fedotov, an official "Hero of the Soviet Union" and test pilot, set an FAI World Record for altitude on 31 August 1977 when he climbed to 37,650 m in his MiG-25 airplane. The record still stands today. Born on 23 June 1932 in Stalingrad in the then-USSR, he was a highly-esteemed Soviet test pilot and a graduate of the Moscow Aviation Institute. A test pilot since 1958 he had...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency