Monsieur Louis Bleriot przeleciał nad Kanałem La Manche (English Channel) z okolic Calais do Dover.
... It was the first international flight over water by an airplane, and it required of the pilot a mixture of courage and madness to set out on the voyage without so much as a compass as a guide ...
www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/world/europe/25crossing.html?ref=europe