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So the key quality here is high-altitude performance? Like higher than the service ceilings of current civilian planes or military transports?
by Quequau 10y ago
So the key quality here is high-altitude performance? Like higher than the service ceilings of current civilian planes or military transports?
- JorgeGT 10y agoI believe this is correct. The service ceiling for a very modern Boeing 787 is ~13,000 m whereas in 1957 a Canberra achieved the then-record altitude of 21,430 m: http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=9843 http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=9843