The delicate, single-seat plane cruises around 40 mph and can't fly through clouds.

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The delicate, single-seat plane cruises around 40 miles per hour and can't fly through clouds.

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The plane drops through the clouds above Olbia on the northeast coast of Sardinia, and tilts on its wing.

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But as the plane touched down, the last of the showers swept through, the clouds parted, and beautiful blue skies greeted Mrs.

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You see the plane you have just left, drift into the clouds (if there are any), and the land is far away but approaching rapidly.

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