Happy who like Icarus… If you read Detours regularly, the story of Franky Zapata will certainly not have passed you over. It is to this Marseillais that we owe the flyboard, a small board not far from a hoverboard and capable of achieving what Man has always dreamed of: flying. Today, an Australian company is taking over with its creation, the Copterpack, a good compromise between the must have for campers and the fantasy of all potential birds: a helicopter backpack. The first theft of the oddity was revealed via the Australians' YouTube account last May.

Do like the bird . If the very idea that this invention could one day be marketed is utopian - the giant rotors rotate only a few centimeters from the pilot not far from being beheaded like Louis XVI, the Copterpack is yet another proof that as soon as it is a question of the sky, some inventors are losing their minds. Forget directly the very idea of ​​a parachute; in the event of an accident, nothing says that you will come out unscathed, even if engineer Hunter Kowald assures us “that in an emergency, the rotation of the propeller is able to break the speed of sound and remain supersonic to compensate for lost forces ”. The fact that the machine has an automatic pilot is, from this point of view, by no means reassuring.