26 April 1995: Mikoyan test pilot Roman Taskaev flew a MiG-29 to a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Altitude Record of 27,460 meters (90,092 feet) at Aerodrome Akhtubinsk, Russia. This record still stands. FAI Record File Num #2554 [Direct Link] Status: ratified – current record Region: World Class: C (Powered Aeroplanes) Sub-Class: C-1h (Landplanes: take off […] …

27 April 1911: At Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Army Signal Corps accepts its second airplane, a Curtiss Type IV Model D. The airplane was built by Glenn H. Curtiss’ Curtiss Aeroplane Company, Hammondsport, New York. It was known as a “Curtiss pusher”, as it was propelled by a propeller […] The post 27 April 1911 appeared first on This D…

24–27 April 1929: At 0937 GMT on the 24th, Squadron Leader Arthur Gordon Jones-Williams, MC and Bar, and Flight Lieutenant Norman H. Jenkins, OBE, DFC, DSM, Royal Air Force, departed RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, England, aboard the Fairey Long Range Monoplane, J9479, enroute Bangalore, Kingdom of Mysore, British Indian Empire, on a long-range flight record attempt. Their […] The post 24–2…