Green Goblin, is it you? This is what passersby in Times Square thought of New York seeing a man casually flying over the area on a hoverboard, which looks more like a giant drone from the future, but ultimately an engineering masterpiece.
Hunter Kowald he is responsible for this act, performing the stunt on stunned spectators at the crossroads of the world with a camera strapped to his helmet. Many thought that the iconic villain of Spider-Man had come to life.
Kowald also designed the hoverboard plane and regularly posts videos on YouTube of his captivating flying adventures. But don’t worry, everything is done with the required permits and with a lot of security.
“It is a highly engineered device. I spent years on this to make this happen, at least to do it safely and properly. There’s a lot of safety built into that device, so essentially it could fail two motors and still land safely. “, He said Kowald.
As cool as this is, it is illegal to fly any drone-like aircraft in Manhattan without permission. “You have to have someone in the mayor’s office who agrees“, He said Randy Scott Slavin, founder of Yeah Drones Aerial Cinematography.
But Kowald says that everything was legal: “We had permission and asked in advance, and everyone was around us to make sure we got it right”. In any case, these surprises will continue as Kowald keep up the ante with your inventions.