Strictly, Zot flew across St Georges Channel, the narrow bit, not the Irish Sea. And I didn't know a bog in a Scottish glen was secure - just 6 inches deep in water. Retrieved to Kinloss on the back of a Mountain Rescue 3-ton truck, and caused some concern flying back commercial with his parachute as hand baggage.
I think one of his better 'claims to fame' was when he was at Boscombe on the Nimrod AEW project, the Winco Admin with a warped sense of humour gave him an appropriate secondary duty, so he could introduce him to visiting Americans as 'Dmitri Victorovich Zotov, our security officer'. This fell rather flat because most of the septics had even stranger names.