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This Day in History:
June 12, 1979

Bryan Allen, flying Paul McCready’s Gossamer Albatross, wins the Kremer Prize for the first man-powered a/c to fly across the English Channel. The flight from Folkestone, England to Cap Gris-Nez, France took 2 hr, 55 min.