New world record: 2 km on the hoverboard
The new type of
hoverboard shows amazing results from Franky Zapata, the developer of Flyboard Air, on Saturday set a new world record for flight range on a hoverboard. Zapata flew along the coast of Sausse-les-Pins (France) 2,252 meters. The record was made using the Flyboard Air. The current achievement covers the previous one almost 10 times (the previous record is only 275.9 meters).
For the first time Zapata attracted attention with the help of a viral video in which he flies on his invention. Many Web users who watched the video even considered it a fake. At this time there is no doubt - everything is real, the representatives of the Guinness Book of Records were convinced of this.
Interestingly, the French company, Zapata Racing, produces a number of models of water hoverboards, which are held in the air with the help of powerful jets of water, thereby achieving a reactive effect. Such systems are connected to the base with a long hose, this base pumps water into the hose, and it is ejected from the water hoverboard under enormous pressure. These systems are far from new.
But Flyboard Air operates without any hoses and water, this is a system that is kept in the air with the help of the air itself for up to 10 minutes. The hoverboard speed is about 150 km / h (maximum speed). "Ceiling" for the device - 3 kilometers. The design of the hoverboard includes four turbo engines with a capacity of 250 horsepower. Fuel - kerosene Jet A1. The fuel tank is located behind the pilot. There are two other engines located on opposite sides of the platform - these are stabilization engines. To control the system using a hand held remote. The pilot himself fixes his position on the hoverboard with the help of rigidly fixed ski boots.
For testing the device and how to set a world record, watched about 200 people.
The development of the hoverboard took about four years. For Zapat, this is practically the work of his whole life, which he did not fail to mention in his speech.
Interestingly, the world record was set just two months after the first system tests. The inventor of the system says that his dream is “to take my Flyboard and go to work”. Perhaps, before the realization of his dreams, there is not much time left.
hoverboard shows amazing results from Franky Zapata, the developer of Flyboard Air, on Saturday set a new world record for flight range on a hoverboard. Zapata flew along the coast of Sausse-les-Pins (France) 2,252 meters. The record was made using the Flyboard Air. The current achievement covers the previous one almost 10 times (the previous record is only 275.9 meters).
For the first time Zapata attracted attention with the help of a viral video in which he flies on his invention. Many Web users who watched the video even considered it a fake. At this time there is no doubt - everything is real, the representatives of the Guinness Book of Records were convinced of this.
Interestingly, the French company, Zapata Racing, produces a number of models of water hoverboards, which are held in the air with the help of powerful jets of water, thereby achieving a reactive effect. Such systems are connected to the base with a long hose, this base pumps water into the hose, and it is ejected from the water hoverboard under enormous pressure. These systems are far from new.
But Flyboard Air operates without any hoses and water, this is a system that is kept in the air with the help of the air itself for up to 10 minutes. The hoverboard speed is about 150 km / h (maximum speed). "Ceiling" for the device - 3 kilometers. The design of the hoverboard includes four turbo engines with a capacity of 250 horsepower. Fuel - kerosene Jet A1. The fuel tank is located behind the pilot. There are two other engines located on opposite sides of the platform - these are stabilization engines. To control the system using a hand held remote. The pilot himself fixes his position on the hoverboard with the help of rigidly fixed ski boots.
For testing the device and how to set a world record, watched about 200 people.
The development of the hoverboard took about four years. For Zapat, this is practically the work of his whole life, which he did not fail to mention in his speech.
Interestingly, the world record was set just two months after the first system tests. The inventor of the system says that his dream is “to take my Flyboard and go to work”. Perhaps, before the realization of his dreams, there is not much time left.