Tag Archives : English Channel

Recently in an air show, aviation enthusiast Jetman Yves Rossey flew above the Swiss Alps and jumped out of a helicopter and carried out a series of aerial acrobatics. Swiss pilot, Yves Rossey must be very proud of his dare devil acts of flying with his custom built jet propelled wings in the sky about 5000 ft above the ground as he is the only human [...]

Hammacher is offering a pedal powered boat that apparently crossed the English Channel! Yes, the man who did that was 59 year old Paul Tucker, and he did it in 2002. The boat which he rode was the 12-foot Nauticraft Escapade, and not surprisingly, this feat made it into the Guinness Book of World records.  Needless to say, the boat is sturdy and durable. [...]

This chalet is another living proof of the fact that price of a property depends on its surroundings and has very little to do with its interiors. This modest house has an extraordinary price tag of £325,000 because it lies in the vicinity of the famous Chesil Beach and offers an exquisite view of the English Channel. The reason this vanilla chalet [...]

Some people are just too adventurous in life. It is fascinating to see these adventurous folks performing deadly stunts that give you the adrenaline rush. Yves Rossy, a 50 year old Swiss adventurer is attempting to jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph and cross 23 mile between Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the Southwestern tip of [...]

Yet another airship is getting ready to flutter across the English Channel to prove its competence, but this time it’s the sun propelling it. A group of engineering and tech students from France has been working on Project Sol’R have surfaced a solar blimp, which they expect to fly across the English Channel. The dirigible measuring 72 feet long [...]

In the Pacific, there used to be hundreds of thousands in whale population. There were once nearly 100,000 grey whales. The numbers have terribly dwindled today. Sustained fishery of whales from the bays and inlets of the English Channel, as early as the onset of the Middle Ages, is a practice that began in the 9th century. The decimation of whales [...]