My morbid plan for a witty gravestone would appear to have come unstuck as Mr Baumgartner successfully flew across the Channel this morning. I still think he's utterly loopy, but I pass on my congratulations. Of course, Baumgartner is an experienced BASE jumper, and the BBC has linked to their story of four years ago when he jumped from the Christ statue in Rio. Certainly, his jump across the Channel was more of a flight than falling off the statue. It leads me to wonder whether or not there's actually a definition of 'flight', whereby one can distinguish between what is essentially moving whilst falling and purposeful flight. Am I flying if I can jump from one spot on the ground to the other?