French inventor Franky Zapata successfully traveled 22 miles across the English Channel on his Flyboard — just 10 days after he crashed into the sea. ️
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00:00I'm making my dreams come true. Honestly, it's a lot of emotions.
00:30The first flight was 3 years ago. I lost 3 fingers, 2 fingers.
00:48They were torn in the turbine and the machine crashed into the wall of my workshop.
00:53So that was the first flight really.
00:55So I really had to negotiate with my wife to let me get back on it.
00:59But it was stronger than me.
01:01When I saw the machine flying, I said to myself, this is what I have to do now.
01:05I have to go all the way.
01:14The water comes out through the propulsion nozzles.
01:17It gives the thrust to propel the rider in the air.
01:25It's a lot of fun.
01:44To suddenly find yourself like this, summoned by the police, supported by almost no one,
01:49with fingerprints on your underwear and someone taking pictures of you with scars to make a record,
01:55honestly, yes, when you get out of there, you say to yourself, we're walking on our heads.
02:10I want to work. I don't want to get caught up in the speed of all the people working.
02:15I want to keep my lead.
02:17And to keep my lead, I need an area above the water.
02:20It's a few square kilometers.
02:22It's not, you know, the hundreds of millions of square meters of sea that we have in France.
02:25It's not really a big deal.
02:27And a small piece of hill so that I can work on 3D reliefs.
02:45I want to work.
02:46I want to keep my lead.
02:47And to keep my lead, I need an area above the water.
02:49It's a few square kilometers.
02:50It's not, you know, the hundreds of millions of square meters of sea that we have in France.
02:52It's a few square kilometers.
02:53And a small piece of hill so that I can work on 3D reliefs.
02:55It's a few square kilometers.
02:56And a small piece of hill so that I can work on 3D reliefs.