A military parade, held in Paris on the Champs Elysees in honor of Bastille Day, special attention to citizens and visitors attracted flying platform, It is flown at a height of several tens of meters above the ground.
During the military parade attracted the attention of the audience hovering above the ground platform, where she was a man, wielding a rifle. As it turned out, it was a French engineer Franky Zapata, inventor of this flying device.
The new device is called Flyboard Air, it is equipped with five small jet engines, fuel is stored in backpack knapsack, it is enough for about 10 minutes of flight. According to its creator, platform can be used at high altitude. Speed, which Flyboard Air develops with operator – to 195 km / h. There is a remote control mode, wherein the platform can carry loads up to 102 kg at a rate to 400 km / h. These vary in height piloting some media reports, that the platform can be raised to a height of 1,5 km, other, As for 3 -3,5 km.
At the same time he recognized the engineer, that the device has many shortcomings and needs some work. In particular it concerns the lack of mobility and maintain balance. Management until requires considerable physical effort to maintain balance during flight.
Zapata showed his invention at the Forum on Innovative Technologies in Paris at the end of last year, which he made a great impression. reported, that the invention is interested in the United States and tried to buy the engineering firm, However, the French government has been able to save it, highlighting research 1,3 million. euro.
According to the Minister of Defense of France, Florence Parley, this platform in the future can be used as assault or transport platform.
