If you aren’t familiar with Franky Zapata, he is a French jet ski champion that has created a water-jet Flyboard. The Flyboard used a stream of high pressure water that pushed the rider up to 30 feet in the air and allowed them to move over the surface of the water.
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Briefly: The Flyboard Air is supposed to fly for around 10 minutes before it needs…something.
Zapata’s Flyboards usually make use of water jets to get you hovering a little way above the ocean, but it looks like this one uses a jet turbine engine, which would open up the possibility of travelling across land too.
There have been many doubts wondering if this device is real. They’ve pointed out that in the video you can’t actually see Zapata taking off… One would think that if someone had a device that could achieve one-manned sustainable flight, then the first shot after the prep shots would be showing the moment when the Flyboard Air goes airborne.
Zapata Racing has a history of making hoverboards and was behind the original water-powered Flyboard.
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However the company assures in a statement that their latest flyboard development is not a fake, and that not only can it take users up to 10,000 feet with a top speed of 148kph, but it also gives users ten minutes of autonomous flying. But we’re hoping that it’s real, because, come on, who wouldn’t want to zip around the skies like the Green Goblin!
