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French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to showcase European military cooperation in France's annual Bastille Day parade at a time of growing tensions between Europe and the United States.
'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night. http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night. http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Has Ireland ever being invited to sent troops to march in the parade?
A French inventor and entrepreneur soared above the Champs-Elysees on a turbine engine-powered flyboard in front of President Emmanuel Macron and other EU leader for Bastille Day celebrations in Paris yesterday.
Hoverboard steals the show at Bastille Day parade
Updated / Monday, 15 Jul 2019 08:05
Former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata developed the flyboard
Former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata developed the flyboard
A French inventor and entrepreneur soared above the Champs-Elysees on a turbine engine-powered flyboard in front of President Emmanuel Macron and other EU leader for Bastille Day celebrations in Paris yesterday.
Former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata, grasping a rifle in a sign of the possible military uses of his device, took to the air in a futuristic showpiece of the annual Bastille Day parade.
French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly told France Inter radio ahead of the parade that the flyboard "can allow tests for different kinds of uses, for example as a flying logistical platform or, indeed, as an assault platform".
Zapata, who first developed his device flying above water, says that the flyboard has the power to take off and reach speeds up to 190km/hr and run for ten minutes.
He is now eyeing a crossing of the English Channel which, for the first time, will require a refuelling in mid-flight.
Zapata aims to make the crossing on 25 July, 110 years to the day after pioneering aviator Louis Bleriot made the first airplane flight across the Channel.
'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night. http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
It was the year of fire...the year of destruction...the year we took back what was ours.
It was the year of rebirth...the year of great sadness...the year of pain...and the year of joy.
It was a new age...It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed.
Will a jet-powered flying board at the French Bastille Day parade inspire President Trump to new heights? CNN’s Jeanne Moos reports.
'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night. http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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