A guy riding a flying hoverboard (Zapata Flyboard) stole the show at the Bastille Day military parade in Paris.

And THAT is what focus on a single goal of development, and incredible wealth, can achieve. Thomas Edison took 4 years to perfect the light bulb, for example, and the flying man chem reaction rig was used in the 1970s, so, about 10 times as many years were needed to perfect the way to make a man fly for about 10 minutes, as it took to perfect the light bulb

Here's hoping that this becomes as common as the light bulb, for anyone that can pay an expected amount of disposable income to have one of these.... if the French Govt doesn't prevent commercial sales.

Of course, once something's been made, sooner or later, there will be generic copies