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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: Story on July 15, 2019, 09:37:30 AM

Title: Jetpacks, Flying Platforms, Backpack Helicopters etc.
Post by: Story on July 15, 2019, 09:37:30 AM

Reckon this belongs in this thread

European leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron were treated to a demonstration of the Flyboard Air, a sort of gas turbine-powered jetpack/hoverboard/flying platform originally invented by jetski champ Franky Zapata, during Bastille Day festivities in Paris on Sunday.

Zapata carried what certainly appeared to be an unloaded rifle (or a replica of such) as he flew over French military forces parading down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées with the flags of the European Intervention Initiative, a strategic coordination pact between 10 countries. In a clip posted by France2, Macron somehow manages to appear completely nonchalant about this whole thing:

https://gizmodo.com/french-inventor-touts-rifle-while-flying-turbine-powere-1836363914 (https://gizmodo.com/french-inventor-touts-rifle-while-flying-turbine-powere-1836363914)

 https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/05/02/17/33BEE9A700000578-3569622-image-a-9_1462205679070.jpg (https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/05/02/17/33BEE9A700000578-3569622-image-a-9_1462205679070.jpg)

Made me think of the Russian version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgGzAKP_HuM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgGzAKP_HuM)

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