--- title: Farthest Hoverboard Flight Record Broken description: A Frenchman set a new world record for "farthest 'hoverboard' flight," at a little more than a mile off the coast of the South of France canonical: https://time.com/4313671/guinness-world-record-farthest-hoverboard-flight/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-01T19:48:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:50:22.953Z og:title: There's a New World Record for the Furthest 'Hoverboard' Flight og:description: It blows the previous record out of the water og:url: https://time.com/4313671/guinness-world-record-farthest-hoverboard-flight/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd0c6dc49afe9ce9/69889153f887dc3776e95ac8/franky-zapata-hoverboard-guinness.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2424 og:image:height: 1364 og:image:alt: Pilot and jet-ski champion Franky Zapata hovers in the air on an IPU Flyboard Air hoverboard as he breaks the Guiness World Records for furthest flight by hoverboard, after covering a distance of 2,252.4 meters (7,389.76 ft) with an average speed of 50-6 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: There's a New World Record for the Furthest 'Hoverboard' Flight twitter:description: It blows the previous record out of the water twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd0c6dc49afe9ce9/69889153f887dc3776e95ac8/franky-zapata-hoverboard-guinness.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # There's a New World Record for the Furthest 'Hoverboard' Flight > Sponsored content. 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Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 1, 2016 7:48 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 1, 2016 7:48 PM UTC A Frenchman set a new world record for “farthest ‘hoverboard’ flight,” at a little more than a mile off the coast of the South of France, Guinness World Records [confirmed](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/4/confirmed-franky-zapata-sets-new-farthest-hoverboard-flight-record-in-france-427011) in a blog post Saturday. Champion jet skier Franky Zapata’s approximately 1.4-mile (2,252-meter) trek over Sausset-les-Pins soars past the record of 0.17 miles (275.9 meters) set last year by Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru. Before Zapata even achieved the feat with his creation, known as a Flyboard Air, [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEDrMriKsFM) of a test flight racked up more than 3.7 million views on YouTube. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4313671/guinness-world-record-farthest-hoverboard-flight/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4313671/guinness-world-record-farthest-hoverboard-flight/"},"headline":"There's a New World Record for the Furthest 'Hoverboard' Flight","datePublished":"2016-05-01T19:48:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-05T08:50:22.953Z","description":"It blows the previous record out of the water","url":"https://time.com/4313671/guinness-world-record-farthest-hoverboard-flight/","keywords":["Newsfeed","World"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd0c6dc49afe9ce9/69889153f887dc3776e95ac8/franky-zapata-hoverboard-guinness.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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