content: You're comparing completely different things. Firstly the article you linked for a record of travelling approximately 10,000 ft is doing so with a Piper Navajo Panther, that is a plane that must travel on an horizontal incline rather than straight up, like a hover-board . Secondly, gliding will indeed be faster as it is designed to go one direction fast without an engine, where as the hover board is better at hovering over a single area, rather than gliding it's constantly propelling itself from the ground. Now I'm no expert on the subject but those are not comparable as they use completely different methods to achieve what they are trying to do, a hover-board, or at least this hover-board, neither glides nor is it a plane. Also I think you meant MSL not ASL .