Franky Zapata made his name in the 1990s with his Jet-Ski team Zapata Racing. He then went from winning seven world titles in Europe to developing a series of flying toys connected to water jets that ...

It’s the 21st century and we have oodles of technology unimagined just ten years ago. Our major Marty McFly letdown: no flying hoverboards. Until now. When Frank Zapata posted his Flyboard Air Test ...

The Flyboard Air from Zapata Racing takes the hoverboard concept to new heights with what looks like a compact, powerful one-person hovering machine. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...

Second time lucky? Frenchman to attempt 'hoverboard' Channel crossing for second time Franky Zapata has become the first person to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered flyboard. The Frenchman ...

If we told you soldiers of the future will ride hoverboards into combat, you’d probably say, “Well, yeah, duh.” But what if we said it could happen in the next few years? Now we’re talking. On April 9 ...

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Inventor and sportsman Franky Zapata has successfully crossed the English Channel on his Flyboard Air, a proprietary hoverboard intended for personal transportation. Since 2016, Zapata has been ...

Despite a valiant effort, Franky Zapata has failed in his attempt to cross the English Channel on his jet-powered flyboard. The 40-year-old French inventor made it halfway across the stretch of water ...

There are some things man was not meant to do. Flying across the English Channel on a hoverboard may be one of them. The inventor of the jet-powered Flyboard Air, Franky Zapata, attempted the feat ...

Though the sky is ripe for disruption with jetpacks and flying cars, we are stuck on the ground partly because we want to be. By Heather Murphy Over the weekend, a video of a man gliding over Paris on ...

What is more noble than man's mastery of the sky? The quest to conquer not just land and sea, but also air? The casting off of the shackles of earthbound existence? Oh, we're talking about a failed ...