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Flying across English Channel
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Updated: 2008-09-30 21:15

Yves Rossy deploys his parachute before landing at The South Foreland Lighthouse on September 26, 2008 near Dover, England. Former Swiss Air pilot Yves Rossy crossed the English Channel tracing the route first flown by French aviator Loius Bleriot in 1909. Rossy used his homemade jet wing, launched from a plane 2.5 KM high, to cross the 35 KM of The English Channel in 12 minutes. [CFP]