SANGATTE, France: French inventor Franky Zapata on Sunday succeeded in crossing the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard he designed, zooming over the Strait of Dover in just over 20 minutes.
"I really didn't think he would make it but I was hoping," resident Helen Reed said in Saint Margaret's Bay."Just to see him in the distance with my little binoculars, it was just amazing." Britain's Royal Navy has also shown interest in similar inventions, and said on Jul 30 it had carried out a successful test over water with"rocket man" Richard Browning, who hovered between vessels wearing a jet-powered body suit.
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