'Flying Soldier' Arrives At Bastille Day Parade On A 'Back To The Future' Style Hoverboard

Daily Mail: 'Flying soldier' arrives at Bastille Day parade on an 118mph Back to the Future-style hoverboard as Macron shows off France's military innovation in front of world leaders including Angela Merkel

Franky Zapata, 40, brandished an unloaded rifle as a he raced at 118mph above world leaders in Paris today
Mr Zapata calls his invention the Flyboard Air, and admits it is similar to the hoverboard used by Marty McFly
Earlier Macron was booed during the Bastille day celebrations by protesters from the Yellow Vest movement
He was hosting EU leaders including Jean-Claude Juncker and Angela Merkel for July 14 celebration in Paris

A 'flying soldier' caused astonishment in Paris today when he arrived at France's Bastille Day parade on an 118mph 'Back to the Future'-style hoverboard.

Franky Zapata, 40, brandished an unloaded rifle as a he raced at high speed above world leaders including President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Then he landed comfortably on his so-called Flyboard, which he hopes to sell to the French military.

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WNU Editor: Wow! That was unexpected.

Future Soldiers Will Be On Hover-Boards

Defense Tech: Imagine if This Guy on a Hover Board Was a Soldier on a Battlefield

A flying platform able to lift a person as high as 10,000 feet and race over land or water at high speeds could have huge military implications.

For one, future airborne troops may not just fall from the sky, they might leap back into the air.

The so-called Flyboard Air is still undergoing testing by Zapata Racing of France — the folks who just a few years ago came out with the Flyboard, which allows people to perform incredible over-water acrobatics via a hose and powerful jet stream of water.

The latest invention reportedly no longer requires the tether hose, keeping the user over water. If real, Flyboard Air is right out of your wildest sci-fi imagination — the closest thing yet to the Spider-Man nemesis Green Goblin’s hover board.

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WNU Editor: Wow .... I am impressed. I know that this is just a proto-type .... and there are probably a lot of limitations .... but one can only imagine where this technology will bring us in 10, 20, or 30 years from now.