Franky Zapata Crosses the English Channel on His Flyboard

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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.

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