--- ---  # There's a New World Record for the Furthest 'Hoverboard' Flight  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 1, 2016 7:48 PM UTC  Pilot and jet-ski champion Franky Zapata hovers in the air on an IPU Flyboard Air hoverboard as he breaks the Guiness World Record for furthest flight by hoverboard, after covering a distance of 2,252.4 meters (7,389.76 ft) in Sausset les Pins near Marseille, France, April 30, 2016. Pilot and jet-ski champion Franky Zapata hovers in the air on an IPU Flyboard Air hoverboard as he breaks the Guiness World Record for furthest flight by hoverboard, after covering a distance of 2,252.4 meters (7,389.76 ft) in Sausset les Pins near Marseille, France, April 30, 2016.Jean-Paul Pelissier—Reuters  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. Farthest Hoverboard Flight Record Broken ```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":"2026-04-13T07:31:59.759Z","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. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"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","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"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","caption":"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","creditText":"Jean-Paul Pelissier—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4313671/guinness-world-record-farthest-hoverboard-flight/","name":"There's a New World Record for the Furthest 'Hoverboard' Flight"}}]}] ```