Originally posted by darthgooberthat was a power written in a onetime event in a complete different era of comics...I doubt they would keep this power in modern era Surfer
He still flew without his board again via energy manipulation though. Specific one time events like that happen when a character has an open ended powerset like Surfer's. And the scans come from EARLY in Surfer's career and were written by Stan himself so it's not something that some later writer just threw in there, it was the way the character was intended to be written by his creators.