Altitude mark

1989/09/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Ingeniaritza
• Garraioak
• Aeronautika

The plane Condor, manufactured by Boeing, has marked the altitude. This plane is automatic (no pilot) and is manufactured entirely in composites. It has a wing width of 60 m, is propelled by two three-arm propellers, driven by six-cylinder turbomomotors of 175 horses.

The condor reaches a height of 20.362 m. The previous mark was placed by the Italian rider Mario Pezzi in 1938 when Caproni reached 17.083 m with a biplane.

The condora is an automatic aircraft for civil and military observation and will be used when large altitudes or long flights are required: border surveillance, meteorological research, cartography, recognition, etc.