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Thursday, 31 July, 2003
Skydiver in record Channel flight[COLOR= black][/COLOR]
An Austrian man has become the first person to skydive across the English Channel. [COLOR= black][/COLOR]
Felix Baumgartner leapt from a plane above Dover at 0509 BST, landing 22 miles (35 kilometres) away in Cap Blanc-Nez near Calais just 14 minutes later.
He wore only an aerodynamic jumpsuit with a 6-foot (1.8-metre) carbon fin strapped to his back, an oxygen tank from which to breathe, and a parachute to land.
[url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3112095.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3112095.stm[/URL]
[url="http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/31/channel.skydiver/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/31...iver/index.html[/URL]
Just have a look at some of the pics !!!
[url="http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0307/gallery.baumgartner/frameset.exclude.html"]http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0307/...et.exclude.html[/URL]
Skydiver in record Channel flight[COLOR= black][/COLOR]
An Austrian man has become the first person to skydive across the English Channel. [COLOR= black][/COLOR]
Felix Baumgartner leapt from a plane above Dover at 0509 BST, landing 22 miles (35 kilometres) away in Cap Blanc-Nez near Calais just 14 minutes later.
He wore only an aerodynamic jumpsuit with a 6-foot (1.8-metre) carbon fin strapped to his back, an oxygen tank from which to breathe, and a parachute to land.
[url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3112095.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3112095.stm[/URL]
[url="http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/31/channel.skydiver/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/31...iver/index.html[/URL]
Just have a look at some of the pics !!!
[url="http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0307/gallery.baumgartner/frameset.exclude.html"]http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0307/...et.exclude.html[/URL]
