Somerset pilot completes upside down flight across the Channel

Will Hosie was upside down for 11 minutes and 30 seconds and has raised £3,700 for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital

Somerset-based pilot Will Hosie has completed an inverted flight across the English Channel in support of Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital.

After his original flight on April 7 was cancelled due to poor weather, Hosie, firmly secured in his seat with a ratchet strap, set off from Lydd Airport in Kent on Monday April 16.

Due to a tail wind he completed the upside down trip from the French side back to Lydd.

After covering 22 nms in 11 minutes and 30 seconds at 1,000 ft above the sea in his Christen Eagle II aerobatic biplane, Hosie was welcomed back to Lydd by a dozen supporters and the media.

Now back on firmer ground, Hosie celebrated raising £3,700 by enjoying a cup of tea with a couple paracetamol to take away the headache.

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