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  1. The first human-powered aircraft to fly
  2. across the English Channel, in June 1979. It
  3. was designed by Paul MacCready and piloted
  4. and pedalled by Bryan Allen. The Channel
  5. crossing took 2 hours 49 minutes. The same
  6. team was behind the first successful
  7. human-powered aircraft (Gossamer Condor) two
  8. years earlier.
  9.