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The Hoverboard Flies Closer To Reality
Dave Knott writes: Fans of 1980s cinema were disappointed when the year 2015 arrived without a practical version Marty McFly's hoverboard. Now, a Montréal-based man has brought it closer to reality by setting a new record for longest "flight" by hoverboard. In a filmed test recognized by the Guiness Book of World Records, Catalin Alexandru Duru pilots his somewhat cumbersome looking rig for 250 meters — five times the previous record — at a height of five meters above Quebec's Lake Ouareau. Duru and his business partner "hope to have a new prototype finished by the end of the year and then have hoverboards available for purchase across the country. He wouldn't say how much the prototype cost to build, but said that the first generation of the machine will likely be 'quite expensive.'" "This thing is still quite dangerous," he added, explaining that the pilot uses only his or her feet to fly the contraption. The commercial version's software will limit it to flying below a height of about one-and-a-half meters above the ground.
If everywhere you go is on water.
If they had watched Back "2" The Future for a moment, they'd know the 2015 version isn't supposed to work on water yet. ;-}
Hoverboards don't work on water.
Those boards don't work on water, unless you got POWAH!
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Looks like a drone with a guy standing on top. It must chew through LiPo batteries.
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Put a Seat on the thing and you've got yourself a Star Wars jungle speeder bike.
The Williams X-Jet did it better and did it 40 years ago.
45 min duration, speeds of up to 60 mph, and no flying in a straight line over water, but flying in and around trees over land!
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Now, a Montreal-based Romanian has brought it closer to reality by setting a new record for longest "flight" by hoverboard.
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This X-jet looks cool and all, but it is no hoverboard. While the device from TFA isn't indistinguishable from the BTTF-boards either, at least it is controlled with feet only.
I was expecting some technology from Nikola Tesla all those years ago. Not something simple like that.
Electrically powered, computer stabilized just like a twenty dollar Cheerson CX-10 but a lot more powerful.
A couple of years ago Hobbyking ran a contest called the Beer Lift Challenge and the last year they ran it, 2013, the unlimited winner lifted a 58.7 kilogram (130 pound) payload along with, obviously, its own weight. So here we are two years later, better batteries, motors, speed controllers and flight computers, and someone's bumped up that record to enough to lift a man.
I wonder how long it'll be till the second one's built?
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The damn thing is a flying food processor. Fly over the water and it will turn you into chum.
So here you are when it throws you off, and now it's out of control
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I find it a bit strange Guiness Records only examined the footage before granting the record. The guy is specialized in 3-D visual effects. I mean, anyone has seen the real thing flying? I am living in Montreal and we never heard about this before today. Don't you think if something like that happened at lake Ouareau in August 2014 it wouldn't have made the front page of our local newspapers?
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Sure, it's noisy and blows debris (in this case water) everywhere, unlike the movie version which was completely silent and did not use forced air.
But the good thing about the hoverboard in the video is that is does not require magic to work.
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Fans of 1980s cinema were disappointed when the year 2015 arrived without a practical version Marty McFly's hoverboard.
Fans of 1980s cinema were silly, then. The events of note are expected on October 21. Unless they are using a calendar where the new year starts on October 21, they had no reason to expect anything was invented in January.
Although, the movie does indicate that there were at least two generations of hoverboards by then...
LiPo is more than just a way to suck out someone's fat cells. It's POWAH.
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I recall seeing film on TV of a US Army project that had a device very similar to this. It had a man standing on top of a hovering platform with lift provided by fans. I don't recall exactly when this demonstration was performed but judging by the quality of the film, uniform of the "pilot", and other clues it was likely 1950s or 1960s. Perhaps there is a "first" here that I missed.
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Great ! Yet another noisy machine that ass-hates can use to destroy the serenity of a lake.
Clearly this bojo has never ridden a Pit Bull.
it currently only works on special surfaces, but hendo puts their hoverboard to shame.
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It will fly anywhere. I imagine, testing over water is safer.
You keep telling yourself that, McSwell.....