飞行滑板载人试飞成功

    Last month, Franky Zapata stunned the world by revealing his jet-powered hoverboard that could travel at 150km/h. Now, the French jet ski champion has gone one better by smashing the world record for the farthest flight on a hoverboard. The 37-year-old used his Flyboard Air to travel more than 2,252 meters off the French Atlantic coastal town of Sausset-les-Pins.

    A video shows him reaching a height of 50 meters above the surface in a flight that lasted just under seven minutes. A Guinness World Records official was on hand for the flight which beat the previous record of 275.9 meters by Canadian Catlin Alexandru Duru last year. Zapata achieved the feat on a craft developed by his company Zapata Racing. He also held an earlier Guinness record for doing 26 backflips* with a water jet pack in a single minute.

    Dubbed the FlyBoard Air, the device ditches water jets for what appears to be a jet turbine engine, but not everyone is convinced. The Flyboard Air claims to allow users to fly untethered* through the sky, equal to the height of nearly seven Empire State buildings stacked on top of each other.(SD-Agencies)