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There are sooo many things that could have gone wrong riding this thing. Thankfully nothing did go wrong and Mr. Furze was able to successfully get this thing off the ground.
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I think it should have a deadman's switch type thing, kinda like a lawnmower, whereby it only keeps running so long as both hands are on the handlebars. If he lets go it instantly shuts down, this way if he rolls it or something he doesnt turn his legs into hamburger
Furze doesn't have time for all that safety shit, because Furze is WOOOOOOOOOOOO
Don't helicopters hover?This is pretty cool, but I think we need to come together as a society and define what a hover-thing is. As in it has to be a device that hovers at least 1 foot off the ground and is stable. It also can't be held aloft by chemical propellants or props. I've seen a lot of professed hover things, but nothing that really qualifies to me. The closest is those magnetically levitated hoverboards that need to be supercooled and run on a metalic surface. But they don't really hover high enough and are hugely impractical. I'm sure we'll have real hover-things in the future but for now let's just stop abusing the term.
This is a small helicopter.
It is a good thing that NASA, at the time, didn't have the attitude a lot of people here have. We would still be thinking "what is on the moon".
NASA will continue to tell you what to think so don't worry.It is a good thing that NASA, at the time, didn't have the attitude a lot of people here have. We would still be thinking "what is on the moon".
I think it should have a deadman's switch type thing, kinda like a lawnmower, whereby it only keeps running so long as both hands are on the handlebars. If he lets go it instantly shuts down, this way if he rolls it or something he doesnt turn his legs into hamburger
NASA will continue to tell you what to think so don't worry.
Make something like that so that I can make to 75 mile drive to Tucson in 15 or 20 minutes with no traffic to contend with and I can swing right down and land in a regular parking space and I'll spend thirty grand for it.
I think he has the fan like a helicopter would, but he can't get higher because it lacks power.I haven't looked in awhile, I wonder where that Aussie is with his Air-Bike?
See, there are two fundamentally different approaches to a vehicle like this. One is the one in this video, a "hover" bike, where the motors are using down-forced air to generate what he erroneously called "lift".
The other approach which is the one I would be interested in, is where the motors generate true lift, like the wings of a plane or the rotors of a helicopter. A vehicle like that is not constrained to a few feet of the ground but instead can truly fly.
Make something like that so that I can make to 75 mile drive to Tucson in 15 or 20 minutes with no traffic to contend with and I can swing right down and land in a regular parking space and I'll spend thirty grand for it.
I think it's this one;
MA Hoverbike
He needs 2 things:
1. Counter-rotating props (or a tail rotor)
Edit: I think he needs this!: http://www.pattakon.com/pattakonFly.htm
2. Some kind of mesh cage so he doesn't open he femoral artery next time it gets squirrely
It does have counter rotating props, the front engine is upside down thus making it spin the opposite of the rear.
I believe he calls that his "safety tie." Never mind all the abundant warnings NOT to wear such apparel when operating any sort of moving equipment...How English of him, wears a tie to test a flying lawn mower.
I haven't looked in awhile, I wonder where that Aussie is with his Air-Bike?
See, there are two fundamentally different approaches to a vehicle like this. One is the one in this video, a "hover" bike, where the motors are using down-forced air to generate what he erroneously called "lift".