The hybrid electric Airscooter completes its first manned flight, paving the way for solo urban air travel without a pilot’s ...

Franky Zapata, 46, attempted to cross the English Channel in his AirScooter as part of a bid to impress investors in the US ...

The company’s CEO will attempt to cross the English Channel without a parachute to use in an emergency. View on euronews ...

Franky Zapata, the French inventor-slash-daredevil who flew across the English Channel on a hoverboard, has launched an ‘airscooter’ to go alongside his jet-powered flyboard and flying deckchair.

French inventor and entrepreneur Franky Zapata took to the skies above Paris at 2019’s Bastille day parade, capturing the world’s imagination with a flying board that can reach an altitude of ...

Zapata revealed that much of the 20 kg (44 lb) flyer is made from carbon fiber, with four, specially modified for purpose, 250 horsepower jet engines enclosed in an aluminum and steel frame.

Franky Zapata took to the air in Sangatte, France, at the start of his attempt on Thursday to cross the channel from France to England. Michel Spingler/Associated Press ...

Franky Zapata, a 40-year-old inventor, takes to the air in Sangatte, Northern France, at the start of his attempt to cross the channel from France to England on Thursday.

PARIS — Franky Zapata, the hoverboarding Frenchman who wowed Bastille Day crowds last month with a jet-powered hoverboard, successfully crossed the English Channel on his second attempt Sunday ...

French inventor Franky Zapata made history as the first person to cross the English Channel by hoverboard, taking off Sunday from Sangatte on France's northern coast and touching down near Dover ...

Franky Zapata, the French jet ski champion who invented the Flyboard Air, has set a new Guinness World Record for the farthest hoverboard flight. Zapata achieved the feat Saturday morning off the ...