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This real-life hoverboard actually hovers (maybe)

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Published April 13, 2016, 1:00 p.m. ET

Great Scott! The future is here!

So-called hoverboards that catch fire and don’t ever leave the ground could be a distant memory if a high flier that can soar up to 10,000 feet and travel at 93.2 miles an hour makes it out of the testing phases, according to GizMag.

Over the weekend, French jet ski champion Franky Zapata debuted on YouTube a prototype of a flying machine — dubbed the Flyboard Air — that would make Marty McFly from “Back to the Future” envious.

A boy practices on a Flyboard, an earlier version of Zapata’s Flyboard Air that uses water, instead of air, to hover.Reuters

The 2½-minute clip, which already has more than 1.6 million views, shows Zapata floating above a body of water as AC/DC’s “Shoot to Thrill” plays in the background.

The device, which has about 10 minutes of fly time, appears to be powered by a jet turbine engine and a wearable fuel tank, according to GizMag.

But some are still skeptical on whether the hoverboard is real or the video is just masterfully shot.

“I think this video was plan[n]ed to be uploaded at the April 1,” one person wrote.

“Just wondering why there is no direct filming of take off or landing. Camera cuts away both times. Just sayin’…,” another skeptical viewer wrote.