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Attempt to fly hoverboard across English Channel fails

Missing a refuelling platform has cost French inventor Franky Zapata the chance to be the first person to cross the English Channel on a hoverboard.

Franky Zapata, a 40-year-old inventor, takes to the air in Sangatte, Northern France
Source: AAP

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