Holy shit who saw the Bastille Day celebrations on the News when the Flyboy hovered along the Champ Elyse. Took me a while to believe what I was seeing when I googled the Zapata. Franky Zapata devised that water jet propulsion hover craft that runs attached to a water hose. Now he's built a gas turbine version- unplugged. Free as a bird! Looks fantastic. Just like a bike, fast, flickable and bypasses traffic congestion. Runs for 6 minutes apparently and capable of 118mph and theoretically can go up to 3,000m. Just a one hand control required.
Every time I watch it I can't stop thinking how we all laughed at Marty McFly riding his hover board in Back to the Future. That was just silly movie fantasy. Jokes on us.
You can buy one for a sweet US$250,000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kB-BGMXxZc
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