white was the first pilot to fly any aircraft faster than mach 4, 5 and 6, as well as the first to fly above 200,000 and 300,000 feet. he set the only official world record of the X-15 program when he flew to 314,750 feet on July 17, 1962, a f?d?ration a?ronautique internationale altitude record that still stands.

No, conventional airplanes cannot fly at 200,000 feet; this altitude is essentially the "no man's land" between aeronautics and space. Standard commercial jets cruise between 30,000 and 42,000 feet, while the most advanced military reconnaissance planes, like the U-2, max out around 70,000 to 90,000 feet. At 200,000 feet (about 60 km), the air is so thin that there is not enough oxygen to sustain combustion in jet engines, and the air density is insufficient to provide aerodynamic lift over a traditional wing. This region is part of the mesosphere, well above the "Armstrong Limit" (60,000 ft) where human blood would boil without a pressure suit. To reach 200,000 feet, a craft must be a rocket or a spaceplane (like the Virgin Galactic VSS Unity), which uses rocket propulsion to punch through the atmosphere rather than relying on air-breathing engines and wings for sustained horizontal flight.