In article ,
(Mark James Boyd) wrote:

I wonder if this is the first glider flight across the
channel?

No. Somewhere around here I have an ancient book on gliding in which
the author relates a a flight in which he climbed in cloud near the
English coast, crossed the channel, and ended up near (and here Bruce
displays his lack of both memory and knowledge of European geography)
Brussels or Antwerp or something.

I'll try to find it and get the details.

-- Bruce