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Pilot completes jetpack challenge (With Video)

source: BBC | Sep 27, 08 | submitted by Pat Coate

Dover, England, UK - A Swiss pilot becomes the first person to fly across the English Channel using a jet-powered fixed wing.

The former military pilot took less than 10 minutes to complete the crossing and parachute to the ground.


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