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Chinese influencer pilots homemade hoverboard over mountains and river

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A 26-year-old Chinese tech influencer, known online as "Amazing Ayu," has successfully built and piloted a homemade hoverboard. Song Xingyu, from Enshi, Hubei province, spent approximately two months constructing the device. He shared a video demonstrating his flight over mountains and the Yangtze River, garnering significant attention and over 3 million social media followers for his aerial inventions. AI

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Chinese influencer pilots homemade hoverboard over mountains and river

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Zoey Zhang ·

    ‘Chinese can actually fly’: man pilots homemade hoverboard over mountains, across Yangtze River

    A Gen Z tech influencer from central China has brought science fiction to life by handcrafting a manned hoverboard and teaching himself flight control and mechanical engineering. Song Xingyu, 26, from Enshi, Hubei province, is known online as “Amazing Ayu.” He has amassed more th…

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