World Record Set for Longest Hoverboard Flight - Video
The Guinness World Records has announced that the longest flight on a real life hoverboard was pulled off by Catalin Alexandru Duru. He rode 905 feet and 2 inches to achieve the record, and you can watch him accomplish the feat in the video below. It may not be on the Back to the Future II style hoverboard that we've all been dreaming about since 1989, but it's a step forward.
This hoverboard is powered by an insanely powerful quadcopter, and it’s pretty awesome. The one benefit that this hoverboard has over the the one Marty McFly uses in Back to the Future II is it can move over water.
The creator of the board said:
"The first real-life hoverboard. The machine was built and designed by me, Catalin Alexandru Duru. I am the first man to create and fly a working prototype.
"I will showcase that stable flight can be achieved with a machine one can stand on and control with their feet, just like in the movie "Back to the Future Part II". In our case, the machine is propeller-based.
"The prototype can be used anywhere, but is usually tested over water because of how dangerously high it can fly (which is ironic considering that the movie joked that it can't)."