Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French inventor Franky Zapata takes off on a Flyboard to cross the English channel from Sangatte in France to Dover, in Sangatte ...

A French daredevil who spent years developing a jet-powered hoverboard zoomed across the English Channel on Sunday, fulfilling his quest after pulling off a tricky refuelling manoeuvre that had cut ...

Since the release of the 2nd Back to the Future movie, many people have dreamed of the day that ‘hoverboard’ technology might become a reality. Sadly, since we’ve now passed the allotted date in the ...

SANGATTE, France, July 25 (Reuters) - A French inventor failed in his attempt on Thursday to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard when he missed a refuelling platform mounted on a ...

A BONKERS Frenchman has vowed to cross the English Channel this week on a high-speed hoverboard he built himself. Jetski champion-turned-inventor Franky Zapata, 40, reckons he can make the 21-mile ...

Zapata had received a 1.3 million euro grant from the French army in late 2018 to help finance the development of the hoverboard, which is powered by five small jet engines Author of the article: You ...