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Hoverbikes are finally here, but don't expect to fly cheap
www.nbcnews.com ^ | Nov. 13, 2018 / 11:18 AM CST | By Tom Metcalfe

Posted on 11/14/2018 7:39:58 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: BipolarBob

For 25 minutes..................


21 posted on 11/14/2018 8:13:30 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

It slices, it dices, it Julianes...just don’t get drunk and fall off the thing.


22 posted on 11/14/2018 8:17:01 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Red Badger

Very cool...

Years ago (1983), my girlfriend and I took my grandmom to the movies to see “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi”.

She flipped out over the speeder bikes the Imperial troops were using, the scene where they were racing through the forest. Thought it was THE coolest thing she’d ever seen. She loved that movie.

That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the article.

Thanks for a good memory... from a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.


23 posted on 11/14/2018 8:19:14 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: freedumb2003

Lol. Prolly be better than the original thats for sure.


24 posted on 11/14/2018 8:19:57 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: freedumb2003; Daffynition

This thing has potential.

If the blades were underneath it could be marketed as a hovermower.

It would fly off the shelves.

... ‘Mericans.


25 posted on 11/14/2018 8:22:53 AM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Red Badger

A duplicate thread on this has been pulled.

I commented that the video showed Dubai Police markings on the vehicle (also Arabic) and the voices had British accents.

Here in the US - insurance premiums would be flying higher than the contraption.


26 posted on 11/14/2018 8:23:46 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: rjsimmon

Read the article


27 posted on 11/14/2018 8:32:45 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: SJSAMPLE

Read the article


28 posted on 11/14/2018 8:33:18 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Mastador1

Read the article


29 posted on 11/14/2018 8:33:43 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: rjsimmon

Yeah, the nacelles like they have on the Moller SkyCar would have been a better option.


30 posted on 11/14/2018 8:37:23 AM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( "Honest Democrat" is a contradiction in terms ))))
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To: SJSAMPLE

The claim is that production models will have ducted fans. The noise in that video would also impose serious hearing loss risk to both the rider and those around him. No thank you.


31 posted on 11/14/2018 8:46:58 AM PST by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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To: TexasGator
Read the article

I did. My comment was based upon the photo provided.

32 posted on 11/14/2018 9:02:54 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: numberonepal

We have lived on a small airport for nearly 25 years. I do not know if many of you remember the gyrocopter craze we had 20 or so years ago. There were lots of them around small airports. They were slow and very noisy. Supposedly if the engine quit you could just autorotate safely to the ground and come in with very slow forward motion. So people thought that they were safe.

So we had this guy who lived across the runway from us who had one. And he seemed to be afraid to leave the pattern with it. So every day he would go round and round the pattern disrupting all the normal air traffic because he was flying about 35 mph while most of the airplanes coming in were doing closer to 100. And when he would go over our house, his unmuffled 4 cylinder engine combined with the helicopter sound of his rotor would just make this god awful noise that irritated the hell out of everyone.

The neighbor who was a Marine and former carrier pilot had been telling me and some others how easy it would be to shoot him down a little earlier in the morning. I was down in our basement and I felt a pretty major vibration and heard a loud boom. I looked out the window and saw what looked like a mini-Hiroshima a few hundred yards away.

My wife went running out the front door along with just about everyone else on the airport. I went to get some garden hose and put on the fire fighter gear I had in the trunk of my car. When she got there the gasoline had all burned up with just a few little spot fires remaining. Someone had thrown a blanket over the body. So she said, “I am a nurse and I need to check to see if he is still alive.” We live with a high percentage of military veterans, so the guys said that he was good and dead. But she insisted and later wished she had not.

The guy had good reason to be nervous about his flying abilities. He had gotten himself into what the authorities later called pilot-induced oscillations. Basically he started going up and down when he was trying to fly straight and level. As he made ever more drastic corrections his head started going up while at the same time the rotor blades were coming down. His seat was several feet ahead of the center of his rotor. He should have had his harness on a little tighter because the blade eventually wacked right through his plastic coated Styrofoam helmet and took the top part of his head off. We were told that it killed him instantly but plowing straight into the ground from several hundred feet sealed the deal.

So everyone was standing around feeling a little sheepish about statements they had made about him in the not so distant past, when our neighbor who lives on the other side of us who is an engineer for the FAA showed up. He said that he was from the FAA and he was taking charge of the scene. Everyone told him to get lost, so he was mad about that for years.


33 posted on 11/14/2018 9:20:24 AM PST by fireman15
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To: Red Badger

drone-like flying motorcycle = dronercycle


34 posted on 11/14/2018 9:27:02 AM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . ")
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To: Red Badger

How long before they’re commandeered by gangs of leather-clad outlaws bent on mayhem?


35 posted on 11/14/2018 9:36:53 AM PST by IronJack
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To: TexasGator

We did. The article echos my sentiment, or I echoed it. Either way, those unprotected spinning blades remain.


36 posted on 11/14/2018 9:40:19 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: Red Badger

Hoverbike by Cuisinart.


37 posted on 11/14/2018 9:42:48 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: IronJack

Not much they can do in 25 minutes of airtime..................


38 posted on 11/14/2018 9:43:55 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: aimhigh

Organ Donors = Donor-cycles...............


39 posted on 11/14/2018 9:46:30 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

For $150,000, I think I’ll wait for the ones with anti-gravity motors with no blades or noise. You just gotta know that DARPA must have at least a prototype with all the years they’ve had to play with the take from Roswell and other crash sites. For that money, you could probably go to one of the ‘Stans and get a clapped out ‘80’s Hind that would still fly. If it the guns intact, that would be useful, too.


40 posted on 11/14/2018 9:47:08 AM PST by VietVet876
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