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58 Years Ago Today Soviet Pilot Flying Mikoyan-Gurevich E-152 Set The World Record For Speed

58 Years Ago Today Soviet Pilot Flying Mikoyan-Gurevich E-152 Set The World Record For Speed

58 years ago today Soviet pilot flying Mikoyan-Gurevich E-152 set the world record for speed over a 15/25 kilometer straight course According to This Day In aviation website, Colonel Georgy Konstantinovich Mosolov, Hero of the Soviet Union, flew the Mikoyan-Gurevich E-152\1 to a two-way average speed of 2,681 kilometers per …

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