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Apart from a string of French national records for both men's and women's flight in a two-seat glider, the CM.7 set a number of world records, beginning in 1951 with women's records for altitude (7,042 m) and gain in altitude (6,072 m) on 18 January, and duration (28 hours 41 minutes) on 23 November,
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