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Swiss pilot crosses the English channel
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-09-27 08:53


Swiss airline pilot Yves Rossy (C) is sprayed with champagne after becoming the first person to cross the English channel with a jetpack strapped to his back in Dover southern England September 26, 2008. Ross, who normally flies an Airbus airliner, swapped the plane's controls for four jets attached to a wing on his back to get across the Channel. [Agencies]