Watch the moment French inventor Franky Zapata crashes into the sea while trying to cross the English Channel on his new “AirScooter”. The 46-year-old CEO of Zapata tech travel firm hoped to impress U ...

Watch live as French aerial inventor Franky Zapata attempts to cross the English Channel on a small hoverboard craft. He aims to land in St. Margaret's Bay in the UK before returning to Sangatte, ...

Imagine riding a scooter to your friend’s house for a barbecue – not on the road but in the air. A French aviation start-up wants to make that a reality with an aircraft resembling a gigantic scooter.

A Frenchman who has spent years developing a jet-powered hoverboard zoomed across the English Channel on Sunday after a first attempt last month was cut short when he fell into the water while trying ...

A vertical take off and landing air scooter flight to England has been abandoned, despite a successful lift off in France. Franky Zapata had been hoping his one-person craft would complete the trip as ...

SANGATTE, France (AP) — A French aviation buff and inventor glided partway over the English Channel on a homemade "flyboard" Thursday — then crashed in the sea. Undeterred, he plans to try again.

Watch the moment a man crashed attempting to cross the English Channel in an ‘air scooter’. Franky Zapata, 46, hoped to fly the 21-miles in his new invention the AirScooter – created by tech travel ...