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A Frenchman who captured the country's imagination with his jet flyboard will make another attempt to cross the Channel after a failed first attempt last week.
Former jetski champion Franky Zapata plans to take off early from Sangatte in northern France on Sunday for a 20-minute ride to St Margaret's Bay in Dover.
Two weeks ago, the 40-year-old player fell to the water in a botched effort to refuel.
After a smooth start aboard his boat, Zapata was sent into a busy shipping lane as he was trying to land on a boat waiting in English waters to give him a new kerosene packet.
"We decided to use a bigger boat for refueling, a tug, which will be in French waters," which the French maritime authorities had not initially authorized, said a spokesman. word.
The flyboard allows Zapata to zoom in the air at a maximum speed of 190 km / h and captured the attention of the French army.
He drew attention to the July 14th military parade this year in Paris, where he stepped over a stunned crowd including French President Emmanuel Macron.
Zapata has been developing the flyboard for three years and continued working on it despite the loss of two fingers during his maiden flight in his garage, when they were sucked into the turbines.
"I had to negotiate hard with my wife to be able to come back after that," he told the French online news site Brut in a recent interview. "I can not help but, the first time I saw it fly, I said:" It'll be my life's work ".
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