Channelcrossing Felix Baumgartner

Channel Crossing Felix Baumgartner
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An extreme sports fanatic was celebrating today after he successfully flew the English Channel using a carbon fibre 'wing'.
Felix Baumgartner jumped from a plane 10.000m high above Dover and into freezing air temperatures to become the first man to cross the Channel in an unpowered flight.
The flight took six minutes and 22 seconds, with crowds, including journalists from across Europe, on hand to greet him as he landed near Calais.
Within minutes of touching down he was smiling and posing for photographers.
The 34-year-old Austrian began the flight at a speed of about 220 miles per hour before slowing to about 135 miles an hour.
Baumgartner made a crunching parachute landing at Cap Blanc-Nez, near Calais, in France.
He glided 22 miles across the Channel wearing a specially-adapted suit with the carbon fibre wing attached to his back.
The plane went beyond the expected altitude of 9.000m because weather conditions allowed it.
His new wing had a span of 1.8 metres - making it 10 centimetres bigger than his previous one, with which he won a race against an aeroplane some weeks ago in the United States.