lower back to the future! real-existence Hoverboard Breaks file

A hoverboard rider recently soared into Guinness global facts after flying a file distance on the futuristic, flying skateboard.

Catalin Alexandru Duru, the inventor of the prototype hoverboard, traveled the duration of two-and-a-half of soccer fields (about 905 ft or 375 meters) to acquire the world document name earlier than landing gently in the sparkling water of Quebec's Lake Ouareau. Duru reached a top of sixteen.four feet (5 m), but the flying board is allegedly capable of plenty more altitudes, said Duru, who told Guinness international facts that his machine ought to reach "horrifying heights."

"The prototype may be used everywhere however is commonly examined over water due to how dangerously high it is able to fly (which is ironic considering that the movie joked that it cannot)," Duru wrote in a description of a YouTube video of the hoverboard's document-breaking flight.

The film that Duru mentioned is "returned to the future element II," the equal flick that stimulated at the least another generation of the flying skateboard. within the 1989 traditional, Marty McFly (a young Michael J. Fox) flees from a band of bullies on a stolen hoverboard. As Duru mentioned, McFly's break out plan is nearly thwarted while he unsuccessfully attempts to hover over a small pond (fortunately, the protagonist remembers that swimming is the following nice option).

The film never explains the mechanics of McFly's hoverboard. but for the reason that fictional tool handiest works over land, it could have lifted off the ground by way of electromagnets, which could (hypothetically, as a minimum) be repelled by using magnetic forces from the Earth itself. Duru's real-existence flying skateboard is a chunk less complicated than McFly's: It has a propeller that helps lift it into the air. however similar to McFly, Duru controlled the hoverboard using only his feet, he advised Guinness world information.

ultimate 12 months, a California-based totally business enterprise ran a a hit Kickstarter campaign to help the improvement of a more McFly-esque model of the hoverboard, known as the Hendo Hoverboard. This board is geared up with 4 electrically charged magnets, or electromagnets, that create a magnetic price when located over a copper surface. Copper is an inductive fabric that creates a sturdy, repulsive magnetic area that forces the board up into the air and permits it to levitate.

sooner or later, the board could also be made to hover over aluminum, in addition to a spread of nonmetal materials which might be also inductors, Greg Henderson, the inventor at the back of this futuristic skateboard, advised live technological know-how in December.

but, for now, the Hendo Hoverboard has limited real-world usefulness way to its reliance on inductive surfaces. then again, Duru's report-breaking hoverboard can float over any surface, making it a extra sensible option for the Marty McFlys of the sector (at the least till a person figures out the way to build that flying DeLorean).