Hoverbikes, 2017
Dentro de un par de años ya podremos comprar motocicletas voladoras, como la de este modelo de la foto en top view, llamado “Aero-X”.
¿Se acuerdan de los Speeder Bikes de Star Wars? Bueno pues es lo mismo pero con propulsión a base de hélices, como las que usan los famosos drones (aka cuadcopters). Algunas compañías como Malloy Aeronautics y AeroFlexya tienen prototipos muy avanzados, que han prometido sacar a la venta en 2017, y con un costo alrededor de los 85mil dólares. Sounds like fun…
Hoverbikes aren’t yet ready for your daily commute, but in pushing to get closer to that point UK-based company Malloy Aeronautics has perhaps made the next-best thing: a drone version. Drone 3 is a functioning drone in its own right, but it’s also a 1/3-sized scale model of MA’s real, human-sized Hoverbike.
The Hoverbike has been in development for years, but the drone showcases the latest design shift to a quadcopter model, much like many of the existing consumer drones on the market. The company originally built the drone as a proof of concept for the real thing, but as they had a lot of public interest in their scale models, they realised it would make the perfect reward for their new Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to further develop the actual Hoverbike…