This Jet Terrified the West: The MiG-25 Foxbat
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This plane, or its successor sounds like it might have the basis for the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox.
P.S. Jet aircraft - The highest current world absolute general aviation altitude record propelled aircraft is 123,520 ft set by Aleksandr Vasilyevich Fedotov in a MiG-25M on August 31, 1977.
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A Mig25 has reached 123,000 feet !
Thanks for reminding me. I was absorbed in the whole cold war story and that bit failed to register.
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