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Flying Board Not Fiction Anymore

Posted June 27, 2016 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

Back in 1989, the fictional movie "Back to the Future Part II" depicted flying boards transporting people around as the wave of the future. Now that future is almost here. French water-based vehicle company Zapata Racing has developed a flying board called Flyboard® Air. The developer claims the Flyboard® Air — demonstrated in this video — is capable of 10 minutes of flying at speeds reaching 93 mph.

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06/27/2016 7:58 AM

Ten thousand feet and 93 mph. What could possibly go wrong when your 10 minutes are up?

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06/27/2016 3:24 PM

I agree completely. This idea of a flying platform (in this form, anyway) is absolute lunacy.

Does anyone have any positive cogent argument affirming this as being practical? I'd love to hear it.

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06/27/2016 6:33 PM

Well you could wear a parachute, rocket your way to dizzying heights and shut the engine down, drift slowly along for a while, jettison the device just before touchdown, or possibly restart for stand up landing....

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11/14/2016 2:26 AM

Flying Board Not Fiction Anymore.

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