5 Real Flying Bikes That Actually Fly

forget cycling these guys are taking it to the next level literally Russian engineers have crafted a hover bike which they dubbed the scorpion 3 it's made to ride with all the ease of your standard dirt bike but in case you hadn't noticed the bikes assy seems to be mounted to a drone here's a biker pilot taking the scorpion for a spin in a warehouse in Moscow it's capable of reaching speeds of 30 miles per hour and an altitude of 33 feet the machine can stay airborne for half an hour on one charge it might look like the stuff of James Bond but it could be yours for somewhere in the region of a hundred and twenty thousand pounds and there are even plans for it to be used for everyday purposes if perhaps you fancy a new way to commute [Music] [Music] people have been fascinated with the idea of flying floating soaring and gliding for centuries today technology has caught up with science fiction and the concept of hovering and hovercraft is finally here I visited a super seeker garage in Los Angeles to meet Tim Desroches of air effects the company that created this a vehicle they call the Aero X just don't call it a hover bike the Aero X is a surface effect vehicle a lot of people call it a hover bike technically it's not a hover bike a hovercraft is something that operates only in two dimensions on the ground and the Aero X is a vehicle that gets up to 15 feet off the ground and operates in three dimensions so it has pitch and has yaw the Aero X is the brainchild of Tim's cousin Mark Desroches an aerospace engineer seeing the prototype up close was pretty cool I feel like I've stepped into a dream in the future this vehicle design is actually not entirely new it was a design that came out of the military decades ago but in that case it was more like a helicopter and the guy was just riding it operating it like a helicopter sitting on top on the Aero X the rider rides it like a motorcycle so you're sitting atop it and you're flying it intuitively and the vehicles following your emotions so what is the key innovation here the key Novation is the control system is flaps they're called ejectors that run around the perimeter of each fan and they control the air flow on the perimeter and closing or opening them will allow you to control the pitch of the vehicle and the yaw of the vehicle hich is the up and down movement of an object in air or water yaw is its side-to-side movement so how far up off the ground can this get so we are aiming to operate the vehicle 5 to 15 feet off the ground we want to be flying over fences over cars we want it to fly over a field of corn for example the applications that were most excited about our agriculture and search-and-rescue and recreation I think the vehicle is gonna be a lot of fun but Tim let me climb on the aero-x which is made out of carbon fiber to get a feel for the controls there you go how does it feel very cool as I do this as you go forward and back you're controlling the air flow and that's gonna control your altitude okay so this is controlling the up and down yep okay and then as you initial eight it's your wrists then you are controlling the pitch okay and the yaw of the vehicle okay and the way you're doing that is opening and closing these flaps these ejectors along the perimeter so how much training does this require to take out this so you're gonna need about two hours of training to fly this vehicle pretty effectively because the Aero X flies below 15 feet off the ground you don't need a pilot's license to write it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Mr. Tech

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Length: 6min 55sec (415 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 19 2017