Franky Zapata made his name in the 1990s with his Jet-Ski team Zapata Racing. He then went from winning seven world titles in Europe to developing a series of flying toys connected to water jets that ...

The French inventor of the jet-powered hoverboard soared over the English Channel despite wind gusts Sunday, becoming the first to cross the channel in such a futuristic way after failing in his first ...

A French inventor has managed to cross the entirety of the English Channel using his recently completed jet-powered hoverboard. The French inventor is named Franky Zapata, and in the above video we ...

The former French military reservist known as the "flying soldier" will attempt to cross the English Channel this week on a jet-powered hoverboard. Franky Zapata, who wowed crowds in France with a ...

A hoverboard created by inventor Franky Zapata is a far cry from the typical ones you see rolling down the street. Zapata's jet-powered hoverboard not only actually hovers — it flys. Called the ...

While the hoverboards of Back to the Future fame (disappointingly) failed to get their predicted 2015 launch, there has been some progress. Companies like Lexus and ArcaSpace have developed inventions ...

When footage of a flying hoverboard first emerged last month, many thought it was fake, because the relatively tiny device appears to be breaking the laws of physics. But the "Flyboard Air" from ...

Catching waves is rad. Flying 16 feet above them on a hoverboard propelled by a stream of high-speed H2O is radder. The newest ZR Hoverboard is basically a souped-up wakeboard that uses a rear-mounted ...

A Back to the Future fan has fulfilled a lifetime ambition of becoming the real-life Marty McFly as he took to the skies on a hoverboard using a jet pack he designed himself. Incredible footage shows ...

This guy is the ultimate channel surfer. A French inventor on Sunday successfully flew across the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard — that would make Marty McFly from “Back to the Future” ...