“I’m going to be obliged with the greatest of regrets to definitely leave France. In fact, he has been threatened with arrest and imprisonment should he fly it again in the country.Īs a result of that, he has taken to his Facebook to announce that he may have to leave the country to pursue the dream somewhere else. This is after he has been having troubles with the aviation authority in the country who do not want him to keep testing the hoverboard. The problem he may have to grapple with, nevertheless, is as regards legislation in different countries including his home country, France. The Flyboard Air is designed to make use of “Independent Propulsion Unit” to fly hose-free.Īttempts have been made by others to create a workable hoverboard, however, Franky Zapata’s hoverboard is by far the most workable, convincing, and authentic. More so, it can stay airborne for up to ten minutes. He made the record after covering a distance of 2,252 meters (7,388 feet), to break an earlier record of 275.9 meters (905 feet, 2 inches), set last year by Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru.Īccording to Guinness Records, the aircraft can reach a claimed maximum height of 10,000 feet, with a maximum speed of 150 kilometers per hour (93 miles per hour). While his own which is produced by his company, Zapata Racing, it has been awarded the Guinness World Record title for the Farthest hoverboard flight during a spectacular attempt off the coast of Sausset-Les-Pins in the south of France.
Kapata is as well the creator of the Flyboards used at holiday resorts and other places using jets of water shooting down to allow their wearer to hover in the air.Īccording to him, he started work on it in July 2011, to be able to allow him to fly around the world and feel like a superhuman. Yes, I mean like Ironman.Ĭreated by a man named Franky Zapata, the hoverboard does not need to be attached to anything before you can get going. What the technology does, is that you step on it, and you can simply fly off. Although the Flyboard air has been around for a couple of years, it is yet to be approved and hit the market.
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