A French inventor has crossed the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard.
Franky Zapata’s hoverboard is powered by kerosene which he carries in a backpack.
He took off from Sangatte near Calais and reached Dover in just over 20 minutes – but he had to stop for fuel.
Al Jazeera’s Paul Brennan reports.
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Amazing
I want one….
My dream come true, to be able to levitate and fly😃
Beginning of future
*We need this to storm Area 51 !*
Yes bro 😂
Yup always turns into a military tool smh
Ofcourse army supporting it.
BRAVO BRAVO!!!
MERKOIL is buying those to every single ISIS migrant
Now that’s a wife!!!
How amazing to have this in the Market. But…too many people having that in the future…..won’t they crash in the air?
This is great news. He can deliver croissants to England, after Brexit is in full effect.
Banned for public use, no doubt.
Great invention. Congrats.
This is our future. Traffic will be in the air. Armies will swarm the air like bees. Spectacular but scary future. Air pollution will get worse.
Great job appreciate
Did he fetch any gear 😉
I’ve nipping back and forth for years on the wife’s broomstick
All those guys that thumbs down are better cuz it’s not USA
Not another illegal immigrant.
Please start selling in Bangalore
And now the drug cartels can deliver drugs from Mexico 2 us easily nice one
They have been doing that with drones for years
Stop with the illegal entries. Which normally constituted person would want to go permanently to Great Britain?
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Amazing and important video. But how was the mid-flight refueling accomplished? That film clip would be even more interesting.
No one…but very one…. wants the police to have these. Change the piolet to a satellite remote, replace him with 150lbs of laser aimed weapon and ammo. Put 50 of them in a refueling and supply van…urban warfare has a whole new plan. .
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How cool! I will be buying one soon. That is as soon as China reverse engineers the thing and makes a cheap copy.
Yeah it’s so hard – building a hover board and then going on holiday – such a hard life isn’t it .
MAGIQUE!!!!!!!
Insy winsy spider 🕸 climbing up the spout along came the 👺 goblin to wype the spider out
Can anyone tell distance he covered while crossing this channel?
awesome
I don’t know folks, could you imagine a suicide bomber using this to cause damage.
Truly, a staggering achievement for technological and intonational transport. This technology can definitely be applied in the future, and this is just further proof of it.
Who’d have thought Green Goblen would be the first comic book figure to leave the pages and enter reality.
Wow its amazing. Unbelievable
Tony Stark lives!!!
Trump builds a wall.
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..immigrants -ZZZZZZZAAAPAAATAAAAAA!!!!!!
I hope this thing becomes commercially available in the next 5 yrs!
A car mechanic in Pakistan who is from Afghanistan builts a perfect chopper with car engine.
No help and money from anyone.
👏👏👏👏
As an Englishman living in France, I have a feeling I might need one of these after the 31st October, and travelling in the same direction! 😂🚀 Felicitations Mr Zapata et bon continuation. 🏆
Refugees new transport to England on a hoverboard
Governments are going to copy and modify his hover board invention and turn it into a weapon of war so SAD ! 😞
Future is here
I feel tired of standing for so long, fighting the wind, and worried that a thunderstorm would be in the way while still in the sea
Breaking News:- citizens of Mexico order these to cross the border lol😂😂😂
so, where’s Doc and Marty?))
Would be so much fun to shoot out of the sky.
The JETSONNNNS!
Now your passport please. What is the purpose of your visit
Marvelous!!! About 105 mph top speed. Very good!
Looks like harry styles sign of the times music video.
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Not exactly a jetpack but it’ll do for now … Santa
that’s wonderfull work you done it
A french inventor invents something incredible. Military imediately want to use it to facilitate the slaughtering of people across the world.
Feminists will say his wife invented that machine and will apply for alimony like Jeff bezxos wife
Salute to flying franky.
Zapata has changed the personal transportation history forever..
This will open up a new dimension with respect to freedom and travel; unless of course the Government gets it’s claws in this with restricted laws and regulations. This is no toy that you just rent for the weekend and zoom off the radar; you need to hone your skills, mainly bodily fitness which puts enormous strain on your spine, legs and core being. Plus there is the adjustment to flying without being encased in some “shell” but exposed to the elements.
Another weapon to kill children in far away lands. Well done.
This is historic moment, our future generations see this and feel proud
The need to make China complying with intelligence property protection law has never been bigger!
Does anyone guess where its gonna lead us soon? That militarized contraption called…… The Rocketeer
Un vol stationnaire n’est-il pas un vol sur place et donc ou l’on ne bouge pas ???
Just wow!
3 more years we Chase the bads guy on Air
Hahaha 😂😂😂
With hover board the world will be like a mess,
Immigration , killing and run,
Robbed in USA 🇺🇸 flying back to mexico
What a great future for individual flight travel!!! To be able to rent one of these when traveling between islands would be a dream come true. I wonder how does one control this air plane vehicle? It seems easy as anything, and relatively low in power expenditure.
Awesome!!
I have flown, parachuted, flown my home built plane but this guy has more courage and skill than I could ever imagine. Congrats to him and hope he doesn’t have and accident. When I was a kid, Rocketman was my favorite short in the movies.
Me : has Food
My friends :
are frenchmen now fleeing France, Macrot is wrecking the country
Hopefully he doesn’t end up like Nikola Tesla
British people are like we want your autograph…and he is saying I am coming in few minutes at your backyard.
The key word arriving in MIST wakey wakey…..
Your 🍕 pizza is here 🤔
No need for me to book easyjet in the future
How much is that thing!? I’m the first customer.
Must be nice to use it to go to work and skip traffic. Lol.
I want one
u nás v Tatrách už takto vedela lietať Majka z Gurunu pred 40timi rokmi. heh
Love how it was on al Jazeera. So all the Calais migrants can understand it and get hope.
I hope the illegals dont get their hands on that contraption.
An outstanding achievement great humanitarian
I need one to travel the galaxy😎
Hes not human, hes an alien. Just like a UFO. He accomplished more then what they be doing in area 51. CIA will assassinate and steal his work, they cant allow other nations with this high Quality technology.
yeetus
Fake CGi, Mag Bitter Truth channel has already exposed this fraud!
That’s amazing. WOW.
I didn’t catch how long it took?
Imagine a 1000 of those coming at you in attack formation 😳 ..surrounded by swarms of drones. Or Emergency services can access places couldn’t before. Amazing achieving achievement by the French inventor.
French inventor turns into the Green Goblin . Lol
Picture a squad of infantrymen zooming down with Squad Automatic Weapons blazing away.
Finally, they added creative mode to real life.
Does the pack help the pilot maintain balance and flight control?
If not, why not have the fuel compartment be part of the platform he’s standing on, so it doesn’t have to be attached to his body?
Spectacular and a colorblindguy too!
Congratulations from Australia 👍🏼👍🏼