Daredevil 'birdman' glides across Channel

An extreme sports fanatic said today he felt “great” after he became the first man to cross the English Channel in an unpowered flight.

Felix Baumgartner jumped from a plane about 30,000ft above Dover shortly after 5am and glided 22 miles across the Channel in a 10-minute flight wearing a specially-adapted suit with a wing-like carbon fibre fin attached to his back.