Finally,a real hoverboard :D

[FPVSteve]

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Time to start saving up!

[Hawkview]

I want to believe but I say fake. :o

[Coyote]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franky_Zapata

I don't know, could be fake, but he has that much press from various shows for this kind of thing it seems too elaborate to be fake.

Not fake at all, frekkin cool :)

[iPeel]

The Flyboard isn't fake, it's water powered, but this job has to be. He's calling this the Flyboard Air. There's no way you could generate that much static thrust from such a small package, plus why don't they show any take-off or landing clips?

[FPVSteve]

Is it not possible to generate ~100kg of thrust from a contraption that size? Should be.

[iPeel]

Four of something like a Jetcat P300 would generate that kind of thrust at full tilt but I'm not sure if they could generate that much static thrust. It seems a strange way of packaging them too.

[pk-surfing]

Hmmm fake is my vote

PK  :)

[keukpa]

This is real.... seriously it is NOT fake!

How do I know?? Cos I've seen it on Youtube.

Keukpa

[iPeel]

This is real.... seriously it is NOT fake!

How do I know?? Cos I've seen it on Youtube.

Keukpa

Which reminds me of this:

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[FPVSteve]

lol brilliant

[Dillwhacker]

Which reminds me of this:

Good fun that - thanks, nice one !
As expected, half of the the You Tube viewers have the attention span of a walnut, and couldn't be bothered to watch it to the end.
Retards - watch out - the world is full of them....
:(

[keukpa]

OT: I've just been speaking to Jason Bradbury (who I work with) and showed him the clip, to which he replied:

"It's Frankie Zapata. I was with Frankie last week in Marbella flying his jet pack. His hoverboard uses a gas turbine jet engine with 5 mins flight time. J"

So seems legit.

[Dillwhacker]

Still fake, without doubt.
:P

[Billy_boy_2010]

It's extremely extremely cool if it's real.

But have jet engines really come forward in technology in recent years? If not- then how has recent tech allowednthis to be performed? The stability control from quadcopter CPUs would be vital I'm sure- but ca a jet engine really be tuned and tweaked every few ms to make the micro adjustments needed for stable flight?

For this reason- I say it's fake. Which is such a shame.

[Dillwhacker]

No.
So that's that.
:-*