1. Two cyclists have been thrown into jail in Nepal only days after breaking a world altitude record by riding across a glacier in the Himalayas. 2. An Army lieutenant colonel who was a helicopter instructor pilot before joining NASA, Currie said she will set a personal altitude record on this mission. 3. Centurion is the latest in a line of solar-powered flying wings that have steadily pushed up altitude records for remote-controlled and propeller-driven aircraft. 4. If successful, the plane will set an altitude record for sustained flight. 5. If you listened to Mack Brown, you would believe the airplanes carrying University of Texas fans set assorted altitude records on the way to the West Coast. 6. Fossett also claimed an altitude record, but could not immediately say what height he reached or what the previous record was. 7. NASA launched a giant, solar-powered flying wing from Kauai on Monday in an attempt to achieve a world altitude record by a non-rocket powered aircraft. |