A man-bird crosses the English Channel

Today is the day of the 'first times'. Never before had happened that a man fly across the English Channel provided only one engine for propulsion. Nor that a feat of this caliber was broadcast live twice: on the channel 'National Geographic' and at the same time, through its website.

Pilot Yves Rossy may one day feel like Peter Pan. The Swiss adventurer will make history by becoming the first man to cross the English Channel by air, fitted with a homemade reactor acceded to his back.

This is not the first time that this man-bird has touched the clouds. Rossy has previous experience flights and tunnels in the Swiss Alps (such as that seen in the video), which have helped drive the wings and refine their skills.

Many have been attempts by the man plunge to vacuum and overcome the gravity and the birds. The mythology speaks of Icarus and the History highlights Leonardo Da Vinci, who in 1490 and designed a flying machine.

National Merit

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Medal for the first human being who flew stays in Spain. Specifically in a small town of Burgos. In 1793, Diego Martin Aguilera, a humble pastor who admired the flight of hawks and eagles, built a mechanical bird of iron and was launched in vacuum Coruna del Conde. But it was seriously wounded in the experiment and his family forbade him try again.

Also the Catholic Church has been interested in the conquest of the heavens. In the same year, a Brazilian priest of 42 years died while trying to beat the record for sustained flight, grabbed 1,000 balloons in celebration.

Now, everyone can be a witness saw a man flying through 'National Geographic Channel and its Web www..es. Both the adventure of Rossy transmitted in its entirety since its start in Calais (France) until landing at Dover (UK).

The adventure will be collected in a special program entitled 'Jetman', in which Rossy will cross the 37 miles in a record time of 12 minutes, propelled only by an engine at a speed of 190 km / h. The pilot, who calls himself 'Fushion Man', will try to achieve this milestone in aviation history by jumping from a plane to more than three miles high.