THE EXPLOIT OF FRANKY ZAPATA ON HIS FLYBOARD FOR A CROSSING OF THE HANDLE

The Frenchman has traveled 35 kilometers of strait on his "Flyboard" with five mini-turbojet allowing him to fly up to 190 kilometers per hour, with a range of about ten minutes.

The jet ski champion took off at 8:15 am near the beach of Sangatte (Pas-de-Calais) to reach St Margaret's Bay English side in the space of about twenty minutes.

He flew over the sea about 15 meters high and made a halt halfway on a boat, to refuel in kerosene.

During the 14th of July military parade on the Champs-Elysées Franky Zapata had already given a demonstration, in front of Emmanuel Macron:

he had stolen a rifle in his hands, several tens of meters above the ground, on his flyboard.

The French army invested in this device 1.3 million euros of subsidy.

"It can be used to evacuate a casualty, what is called a medical evacuation, it can serve as a logistics platform to carry ammunition," says the director of the Defense Innovation Agency, Emmanuel Chiva.

The French special forces see in this flying platform the "potential for employment in special operations in urban areas".

In the United Kingdom, a former reservist, Richard Browning, also invented his own flying machine equipped with five integrated reactors. A battle of the airs which is only beginning.