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SAINT INGLEVERT, France --- The man who wowed the crowd in Paris on Bastille Day, whirling over France's leaders on his flyboard, was undertaking final checks Wednesday for his biggest challenge yet: Soaring across the English Channel. Franky Zapata told repFrenchman to try flying across English Channel on his flyboard
SAINT INGLEVERT, France --- The man who wowed the crowd in Paris on Bastille Day, whirling over France's leaders on his flyboard, was undertaking final checks Wednesday for his biggest challenge yet: Soaring across the English Channel. Franky Zapata told reporters that it's all systems go but conceded it's «not an easy challenge.» Zapata, 40, plans to take off Thursday, anchored to his flyboard -- a small flying platform he invented -- from Sangatte, in France's Pas de Calais region, to the Dover area in southeast England. He said he's confident but he didn't want to make projections about his arrival across the 36-kilometer (22.4-mile) stretch of water. He, however, said he ...Keep on reading: Frenchman to try flying across English Channel on his flyboard Read more











