F-4 Phantoms Phabulous 40th
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Vice Adm. Clarence Ekstrom, right, pins the Distinguished Flying Cross on Cmdr. Lawrence E. Flint after the Navy announced that Flint had piloted the McDonnell F4H Phantom II carrier jet, background, to an unofficial world altitude record of 98,560 feet. The Navy said the unofficial record was set in a flight from Edwards Air Force Base. The previous official record was 94,658 feet and was set by a Russian. (Wide World Photos 1959)
Photo Credit: Boeing Photo
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