Harriet Quimby, The Pilot Who Became “Queen of the Channel Crossing”

Aviation pioneer Harriet Quimby isn't as well known as Amelia Earhart or Bessie Coleman but, as the first woman to fly across the English Channel, she definitely made an impact.

How A Pedal-Powered Airplane Crossed The English Channel

Today's the anniversary of a pretty unusual moment in the history of human flight: on this day in 1979, an airplane flew over the English Channel that was entirely powered by its pilot.

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Change The (English) Channel

The commemoration ceremony for the Channel Tunnel was a diplomatic coup but an engineer's nightmare: they had to run a train carrying Queen Elizabeth II and a train with French President Francois Mitterand toward each other... on the same track.

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