Swiss man flies over Channel on jet wing

A Swiss daredevil crossed the English Channel strapped to a homemade

jet-propelled wing Friday, visit parachuting into a field near the white

cliffs of Dover after a 10-minute solo flight.

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Yves Rossy leapt from a plane at more than 8, pills 800 feet (2, check 500 meters), fired up his jets and made the 22-mile (35-kilometer ) trip from Calais in France. Rossy passed over a thin strip of land in front of South Foreland lighthouse, looped over onlookers and opened his parachute, his wings still strapped to his back.

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