Zapata had received a 1.3 million euro grant from the French army in late 2018 to help finance the development of the hoverboard, which is powered by five small jet engines Author of the article: You ...

SANGATTE, France, July 25 (Reuters) - A French inventor failed in his attempt on Thursday to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard when he missed a refuelling platform mounted on a ...

French inventor Franky Zapata on Sunday succeeded in crossing the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard he designed, zooming over the Strait of Dover in just over 20 minutes. After a previous ...

Watch out, world. Toyota is heading back to the future. The automaker has hinted it’s looking into flying cars. Now its Lexus luxury brand has actually built a working model of a hoverboard. That’s ...

SANGATTE — A French inventor failed in his attempt to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard on Thursday when he was knocked into the water as he landed on a boat-mounted refueling ...

The actor took to Twitter, demanding answers about a hoverboard ban. — -- Russell Crowe is spitting mad about an airline travel policy the actor claims disrupted his holiday travel plans. Crowe ...

As technology is rapidly advancing, more tech companies are trying to revolutionize the daily commute via flying scooters. One such air scooter recently nosedived into the ocean while trying to cross ...

It was part plane, part ekranoplan, part hovercraft - and it was built to hunt American nuclear submarines across oceans and ...

Imagine riding a scooter to your friend’s house for a barbecue – not on the road but in the air. A French aviation start-up wants to make that a reality with an aircraft resembling a gigantic scooter.

Looking like a superhero, the French inventor of an airborne hoverboard glided partway over the English Channel on his personal flying machine Thursday – then crashed in the sea. Unharmed and ...

A Calgary family is planning a futuristic road trip. Colin Steadman is going to float his wife, kids and maybe even the pet dog across Alberta in a hovercraft this summer. "The wife told me, 'You can ...

French inventor Franky Zapata takes off on a Flyboard for a second attempt to cross the English channel from Sangatte to Dover, in Sangatte SANGATTE, France/SAINT MARGARET'S BAY, Britain (Reuters) - ...