On July 25, 1909, Louis Blériot flew a 25-hp monoplane across the English Channel, ending England's age as an unreachable island.
TaildraggerOn July 7, 1981, pilot Steve Ptacek flew the Solar Challenger from France to England in 5 hours 23 minutes on nothing but sunlight - no fuel, no batteries, no stored energy of any kind.
TaildraggerOn June 2, 1910, Charles Rolls completed the first nonstop round-trip flight across the English Channel - and died flying 39 days later.
TaildraggerOn April 16, 1912, Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel - a landmark flight overshadowed by the Titanic disaster.
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