Inventor flies real-life hoverboard over Atlantic Ocean

An incredible video has surfaced this week showing off a real-life hoverboard flying over the Atlantic Ocean – a science fiction dream made real.

Inventor Franky Zapata took to the air on Flyboard Air in a promotional video for Breitling – and travelled 150ft above the surface of the Atlantic for seven minutes.

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The board – which already holds a Guinness World Record for furthest hoverboard flight – is made by the company behind water-powered Flyboard jetpacks.

The video was filmed in December – following Zapata’s record-breaking flight in May last year.

Mr Zapata said, ‘This has really been a life’s work. Who has never dreamt of leaping out of the water and soaring through the air, free of all constraints? This is the dream that is at the origin of the products we create.’

The Flyboard Air is jet-powered, with four engines which propel it upwards and forwards, stabilising itself much like a drone.

It can fly for around 10 minutes, fuelled by a backpack full of kerosene – and has a theoretical maximum speed of 92mph with a ceiling of 10,000ft.