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Swiss Jet Man crosses the Channel with jet wing flight
Yves Rossy completed a 13 minute Channel crossing using a homemade jet propelled wing from Calais to Dover. The 49 year old Swiss aviator deployed a parachute near the South Foreland lighthouse and landed near an adjacent field amid cheers. He flew at about 125 miles per hour with a carbon composite wing weighing 121 pounds loaded with four kerosene jets.
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Dover
England
English Channel
Yves Rossy
Channel
Rossy
Calais
France
South Foreland
Britain
Louis Bleriot
Lighthouse
Guglielmo Marconi
Bleriot
Simon Ovenden
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
John Jeffries
Europe
Matthew Webb
Geoff Clark
Chatham
Clark
Mark Dale
British
Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association
Grand Canyon
Arizona