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31 July - An Austrian skydiver cut the journey time from Dover to Calais to under ten minutes, although it required jumping out of a plane in freezing conditions at a height that afforded little oxygen.
Extreme sports fan Felix Baumgartner became the first person to skydive across the English channel, knocking nearly 15 minutes off the standard Eurostar crossing just one day after the train broke the UK rail speed record in a 208mph test run.
He leapt from a plane flying 10,000m above Dover, and reached a speed of about 220mph before landing at Cap Blanc-Nez, near Calais, six minutes and 22 seconds later.
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Watch him fly here
31 July - An Austrian skydiver cut the journey time from Dover to Calais to under ten minutes, although it required jumping out of a plane in freezing conditions at a height that afforded little oxygen.
Extreme sports fan Felix Baumgartner became the first person to skydive across the English channel, knocking nearly 15 minutes off the standard Eurostar crossing just one day after the train broke the UK rail speed record in a 208mph test run.
He leapt from a plane flying 10,000m above Dover, and reached a speed of about 220mph before landing at Cap Blanc-Nez, near Calais, six minutes and 22 seconds later.
Source
Watch him fly here
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