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- Time for a quick survey.
Raise your hand if you've never dreamed
of flying like a bird or a superhero.
All right, I don't see any hands going up,
except for you, red shirt over there in Jersey,
and you're probably just scratching an itch.
All right, so while all of us have dreamed of flying,
only a relative handful of people, like the Wright brothers,
has actually done something about it.
Well, now we can add one more stand-up guy
to the list of innovators who didn't give up
on a quest to go up.
(upbeat music)
- For us humans to soar in the sky,
we've had to invent things like hot air balloons,
airplanes, wing suits; heck, there's even a guy
who strapped wings and jet engines to his back.
But to take off from the ground and fly intuitively
anywhere your mind and body desires is still a reach.
Luckily, one fearless Frenchman is obsessed
with making it happen.
And his first attempt in 2012 was this:
a recreational flyboard that launches you into
the air with powerful streams of water.
Today all he needs is a backpack filled with kerosene.
I flew, in a regular airplane, to Lake Las Vegas, Nevada,
to meet Franky Zapata, world champion jet skier
and self-taught engineer who zips through the air
like a superhero on his latest innovation
he calls Flyboard Air.
What exactly happens?
You strap yourself into those boots,
and are these jet engines?
- Yes, we have five engines and I have two boots.
Put my feet on it, I just strap the boots and that's it.
Just press the triggers and I fly.
- You realize you're making this sound very easy
and it's very complicated.
(laughing) - Yes, yes.
(upbeat music)
These five engines provide thrust.
It's proportional to this trigger.
So if I squeeze the trigger, that increases thrust.
So we use, also, stabilization,
an algorithm to stabilize the machine.
- So the machine also provides some equilibrium,
some balance, but you have to be able to kind of balance
your weight, as well?
- Exactly, to develop an algorithm like something help you,
but you're still in control, was the hardest part.
So it's your brain and the machine working in tandem?
- Yes, it's your brain and the machine working together
and flying the machine.
- And are these five jet engines,
are they similar to something we'd see
on an airplane but smaller?
- This one is a turbo jet, so it's smaller like they use
on the fighter, for the--
- Like a fighter pilot?
- The fighter pilot.
- So this is like five mini fighter pilot engines
strapped to your feet?
- Exactly (laughter).
- Franky wears safety gear,
which includes a flight suit, helmet and parachute
because he can reach speeds of up to a hundred miles per hour
and an altitude of 9,000 feet on the Flyboard Air.
He uses a launch platform for takeoff
to minimize debris blowback.
And it quickly gets really loud.
(jets whirring)
Oh, my gosh.
That was insane.
(upbeat music)
The Flyboard Air is being tested by both the French
and US militaries.
So this model won't be parked in your backyard
anytime soon.
But he is developing a consumer-friendly version.
- We imagine a future that humans can go to work
with our flying machine.
Not with this one, but something similar that we develop
by using this technology.
- So we'll see if it takes off.
- Yes. (laughter)
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