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Video Purports To Show Successful Hover Bike Test Flights

Posted by Soulskill on from the bumpercars:-the-next-generation dept.

Zothecula writes "Videos released by California-based tech research company Aerofex appear to show successful test flights of a prototype hover bike that gains lift from two large ducted rotors. Aeroflex claims its hover bike allows the pilot intuitive control over pitch, roll and yaw without need of artificial intelligence, flight software or electronics of any kind."

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  1. WASP X-Jet by Penurious+Penguin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And somehow, for some reason of time rather garbled and strange, this seems so boring in comparison to this wonderful antique: Williams WASP X-Jet

    I'm not saying I don't want one, but if given the choice....

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    Forward! -- Emperor Norton, 2012
  2. Re:Oh! Look! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A small hovercraft without a skirt!
    Yawn. Ground effect only. That's not flying.

    And, so what? It's called a hover bike not a 'flying' bike.

    A flying bike would require ridiculous thrust if it were made out of something more substantial than balsa wood. I doubt you'd want to ride something like that without an enclosed cockpit.

  3. don't be fooled by tbonefrog · · Score: 5, Funny

    The terrain looks suspiciously like the surface of Mars. Don't be a sucker. This could not work in Earth gravity.