I did a story a while ago on the jet
powered hoverboard called fly board air
by Zeppelin industries the story I
originally did was introducing what the
flyboard air is and what it could do in
2016 now for all those who are not
familiar the flyboard air is a
one-person jet hoverboard that you stir
up your feeding to you control the
thrust with a hand control throttle and
steer by leaning forwards backwards left
and right the hoverboard is powered by
five small jet engines which produced
1500 horsepower it has enough kerosene
fuel in its backpack to fly for about 10
to 12 minutes and can fly at speeds of
up to 110 miles per hour and it does
have the capability of flying up to
10,000 feet but only if you can carry
enough fuel but even though it's an
amazing piece of technology it seems to
have some limitations such as short
flight times due to the limited amount
of fuel you can carry in a backpack also
you could not fly over residential or
populated areas because of the jet
engine noise and finally based off all
the video footage on their channel he
only ever fluid over water
I assume that's in case something goes
wrong he could crush land in the water
and not hit hard on land but I checked
out their latest videos and it would
appear flying over land is no longer an
issue in one video he's flying through a
rocky desert area in the US and didn't
another down the racetrack at the GP
LeMans
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he even performed in front of the French
president Emmanuel macron at the
bastille day military parade flying in
with his hollywood controller in one
hand and a military rifle in the other
so it would appear they've either worked
at any bugs that would cause the
flyboard air to stall and crash well the
pilot is now very confident in his
piloting skills but I wanted to revisit
this story to see if that made any major
improvements such as longer flight times
or maybe it's now available for sale to
the public but even though their website
states currently commercialized in in
development within the recreation
entertainment military medical and
industrial sectors their retail website
does not list it for sale but another
website shows it listed with a price of
nearly 300,000 euro but States it's not
for sale but they're taking pre-orders
so we still can't buy one yet and even
if we could you are looking at a retail
price of nearly three hundred and thirty
thousand US dollars but while we wait
for that glorious day we can all fly
around on our own jet hoverboards
Zeppelin Industries is not sitting still
they continue to develop and push
boundaries of what the flyboard air can
do just recently Frank Zappa has become
the first person to cross the English
Channel on a jet powered fly board Frank
made the 22 mile or 35 kilometres him
from France to England on Sunday August
the 4th 2019 he took off at 6:15 a.m.
near the port of Calais and headed
towards England at speeds of up to 110
miles per hour or 177 km/h for the
duration of the flight he held an
altitude of around 15 meters or about 50
feet while followed by several support
helicopters but because the flyboard air
can only fly for about 10 minutes at a
time Frank made one brief stop on a boat
in the middle of the English Channel to
refuel before resuming his flight he
made it across the 22 miles from coast
to coast in 22 minutes now no one is
calling this a world-first but since I
love world first stories I'm going to
fly board air is now the world's first
jet-powered hover board to cross the
English Channel in one day soon we'll be
parked in my garage well maybe
anyway that's the end of this video
thanks for watching and we'll see you
next time bye bye
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