An Austrian man wants to sky dive across the English Channel. Well, if one can run for governor of California, why the heck not?

"I want to be known as the God of the Skies," he told the Telegraph.

Either that, or as one wag at Free Republic suggested, the "Crater of Calais."

Wingsuit flying is nothing revolutionary, it being done in every dropzone in the world
See http://www.bird-man.com/
Only real danger this guy is facing, is that he wont glide this far and has to land in water. He might be miscalculating his gliding angle a little optimistically .. the usual is 2/1 with wingsuit, meaning for every two meters you fall you move one meter forward. He has his extra composite wing with him, but he might not be accounting for thinner air at 9k.
But a chance of making a "crater" is as little as for regular birdman jumps.

I prefer the Cross-Channel Jump

Er, well my manager explained it to me. You see if you're five miles out over the English Channel, with nothing but sea underneath you, er, there is a very great impetus to say in the air.

Link was busted, sorry:

http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode10.htm#6

He made it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3112095.stm

How high did he start from? How many miles was it horizontally & how long was it from exit to deployment?

BTW, I think the 2/1 ratio is 2 foreward to 1 down because Patrick Garordin's friend managed to glide 9 miles from 30,000'.
Any info on the record distance, delay, & altitude "relief b/n exit & canopy deployment in wingsuit base jumps?