When Frenchman Franky Zapata and his Zapata Racing company put their Flyboard Air video up on YouTube on April 9, the flight seemed so advanced that people questioned if it was even real. But Zapata ...

Zapata Racing and their intriguing Flyboard Air make the front page once more as a new video shows the contraption in action, and this time it looks way more credible. We showed you the first video of ...

Last month, we were blown away by a new hoverboard video that was so amazing most everyone decided that it had to be fake. The hoverboard in question - dubbed the Flyboard Air - was built by Zapata ...

Zapata Racing is on a roll — the company recently demoed its new Flyboard Air hoverboard, and now it has used the prototype to set a new world record for hoverboard flight. Guinness Book of World ...

Invented by Frank Zapata in 2012, Flyboarding (aka, using one of those water jet hover board things) has grown from a novelty into a full-fledged competitive sport. Now, Zapata Racing is prepared to ...

The Flyboard Air from Zapata Racing takes the hoverboard concept to new heights with what looks like a compact, powerful one-person hovering machine. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...

A new video from Zapata Racing — the company that makes those the water- and jet ski-powered Flyboards we got to ride last summer — shows founder Franky Zapata zooming back and forth over a small lake ...

Zapata Racing has brought the rocket boots concept to the open sea with Flyboard, a wearable platform that uses water propulsion to shoot you into the sky from your feet. Zapata Racing has brought the ...

Automakers drone on about providing "mobility solutions," but every once in a while, a company teases a technology that may actually have the potential to disrupt something other than big-city taxi ...

In the few weeks following the release of a video that appeared to show jet-ski champion Franky Zapata flying high in the sky on a jet-powered hoverboard, the online community split into two clear ...

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Franky Zapata (born 27 September 1978) is a French personal watercraft pilot who is the inventor of the Flyboard and Flyboard Air, and founder of Zapata Racing. Since 2012, Zapata's efforts have been ...