Hoverboard Flight Record

I thought this was some fun news I would pass along. Apparently a Canadian inventor, Alexandru Duru, set a Guinnes World Record for the farthest flight by hoverboard, flying 905 feet over Lake Ouareau in Quebec. Please keep in mind this is propeller based. It basically looks like he's standing on a drone, but it can't be easy to balance so I still think it's an impressive feat.

Video of Hoverboard Record Flight

Here is a Wired article regarding the feat:

This hero just smashed the world hoverboard record

It's not really fair to say that hoverboards don't exist -- they do, in wildly varying forms. Unfortunately they also happen to be pretty... raw. Which means they are either unable to work for more than a few seconds or require a surface substrate rippling with an opposing magnetic field to get around. Still, the hope remains that a functioning mass-market hoverboard will become a possibility one day -- perhaps even before everyone who saw Back To The Future in cinemas is too old to try it out.

Today we've come one step closer, thanks to Catalina Alexandru Duru who has just broken the official record for the longest flight ever on a hoverboard. Using his own conception of a floating skateboard -- this time a horizontal board powered by two massive fans like a quadcopter, rather than a water jet or magnets -- Duru managed to fly 905 feet and 2 inches over the surface of Lake Ouareau in Quebec, Canada, under the watchful gaze of Guinness World Records.

Duru reached a height of more than 15 feet on the board, which took him about a year to design and build. "I wanted to showcase that a stable flight can be achieved on a hoverboard and a human could stand and control with their feet," Duru told Guinness. The records organisation said in response that the feat was "truly mesmerising".

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