French inventor Franky Zapata soared over Bastille Day celebrations in Paris on a jet-powered aerial vehicle, dazzling the crowds below. 🚀🇫🇷 “You feel the air through your finger before the wind affects your body. It’s like becoming like [a] bird.”
Franky Zapata has been driven by a single dream since he was little: being able to fly. Not in an airplane, he says, since the windows function like a screen, but like a bird.
"When you fly with your body," says Zapata,"even your hands affect the direction you want to go in. You feel the turbulence and the air through your fingers. It's like becoming a bird. But it's also very hard. I have to fight against the wind with my legs so there's pain too. It's not as peaceful as it looks.
Already, the father of one has worked with the US and French militaries, with the French investing 1.4 million dollars in tests of the board. As for commercial uses, he says that regulations need to be worked out and safety issues looked at before the technology can be put to wider, recreational use."The problem with this machine is if you're not calm you can break your neck," Zapata says."You have to be focused. It's not a skateboard. It's a flying machine.""If you want to build a flying machine you need to want to fly," he says."You can't be chasing fame or money.
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