View Full Version : Aeroplane? I don't need no steenking aeroplane...
DamienB
29th Jul 2003, 21:06
An Austrian with a carbon wing strapped to his back will attempt to be the first man to fly across the English Channel unaided.
Felix Baumgartner plans to leap from a plane 30,000 feet (9,000 metres) above Dover and glide over the 22 miles (35 kilometres) of water to France.
More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3106147.stm
jackyboy
29th Jul 2003, 21:18
Hardly un aided when you jump from a plane at 30,000ft. But got to admire him.. More power to his elbow(s)
Your mis quote. The original "Badgeees, we don need no steenkin badgeees" comes from a western I think. Which one was it ??
FlyingForFun
29th Jul 2003, 21:22
Nutter.
Good luck to him! :ok:
FFF
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DamienB
29th Jul 2003, 21:40
jackyboy - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre originally, but I thought it was Blazing Saddles until I checked!
treadigraph
29th Jul 2003, 22:39
Good luck to the chap - Why hasn't the excellent (and nutter extraordinaire) Adrian Nicholson beaten him to it?!!
The quote does indeed come from Blazing Saddles - as well as TSM I suppose...!
That's not flying, it's falling with style...
whosyerdaddy
29th Jul 2003, 22:49
Yeah, I read about this before. It's a controlled freefall over the channel. The wing's a cheat innit?
rotorcraig
30th Jul 2003, 02:14
NOTAM says...
NAVW: FROM 03/07/21 04:00 TO 03/08/15 04:45 H4452/03
D)0400-0445
E)AUS(MIL REF) 03-07-0502/2390/DG
SINGLE ATTEMPT CROSS-CHANNEL FREEFALL PARACHUTE FLIGHT FROM DOVER
(PSN 5109N 00123E - FL280 - DROP TIME 0400)TO LAND CALAIS
(PSN 5057N 00145E). PJE FROM SKYVAN ACFT WITH PC9 PHOTO/CHASE ACFT IN
FORMATION WHICH WILL FOLLOW THE SINGLE PARACHUTIST THROUGHOUT. EST
LONDON/PARIS FIR BOUNDARY CROSSING PSN 505927N 0012710E -EST FL175
ETA 0405. DROP TIMES SUBJECT TO VMC AND ATC CLEARANCE.CONTACT LACC
SWANWICK(MIL)LJAO SUPERVISOR 01489 612417. PILOTS ARE REQUESTED TO
AVOID THE PJE BY 2NM EITHER SIDE OF PLANNED TRACK.
F)SFC G)FL280