Huh. TIL the highest crewed flight in an aircraft without rockets the aircraft had no power at all. It was a glider!

airbus.com/newsroom/press-rele

Turns out playing with mountain winds and the jet stream can push you higher than an air breathing engine can go.

Oop! not quite, the SR-71 did beat it by about 10k feet. Nothing else does though.

(the table I was consulting was not in order!)

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