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French inventor wows Bastille Day crowd with Flyboard display (video)

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French inventor Franky Zapata demonstrated his flyboard before President Emmanuel Macron and other European dignitaries as part of Bastille Day celebrations in Paris on Sunday, July 14.

Zapata, carrying a rifle, soared above the annual military display on his Flyboard Air, a device he invented.

Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly was quoted by RFI as saying the Flyboard Air potentially had “different kinds of uses” including “as an assault platform”.

Source: yahoo, RT

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