English Channel – Brady Carlson

How A Pedal-Powered Airplane Crossed The English Channel (Cool Weird Awesome 319)
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How A Pedal-Powered Airplane Crossed The English Channel (Cool Weird Awesome 319)

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12 06, 2020

How A Pedal-Powered Airplane Crossed The English Channel (Cool Weird Awesome 319)

By Brady Carlson|2020-06-12T06:56:12-04:00June 12, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: airplanes, 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. Plus: watching the heaviest airplane ever built take off is a sight to see.

Change The (English) Channel (Cool Weird Awesome 33)
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Change The (English) Channel (Cool Weird Awesome 33)

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6 05, 2019

Change The (English) Channel (Cool Weird Awesome 33)

By Brady Carlson|2021-03-03T08:37:10-05:00May 6, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: Channel Tunnel, English Channel, Francois Mitterand, Queen Elizabeth II, trains, tunnels|

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.