Saw this on the news this morning...
This flying motorcycle can take you from traffic to sky in minutes | Fox News
This flying motorcycle can take you from traffic to sky in minutes | Fox News
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Flying Motorcycle - It's Coming...
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Protocall_Design
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It got my attention because the times-are-a-changin.
Our small town is now a Golf Cart road-legal community. Many young couples with kids just have to have an electric cart. My young neighbors buy those $25K carts and they seem to be trying to keep up with the Joneses.
They quietly joy-ride around the neighborhoods and show off their fancy ride. Quite an expensive hobby. Seems to be wife-driven.
AND the kids are riding upscale electric bikes. They ride everywhere. You can tell when school lets-out 'cause here they come. Those E Bikes aren't cheap either. Quite elaborate. At least they are quiet.
THEN there are the drones. These kids have electric drones and seem to be having a blast. I found one behind my house the other day. Apparently it ran out of range or battery and down she went. Still intact but lost.
So with all this progress with electric tech, I can see the flying motorcycle being a real thing in the near future.
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Our small town is now a Golf Cart road-legal community. Many young couples with kids just have to have an electric cart. My young neighbors buy those $25K carts and they seem to be trying to keep up with the Joneses.
They quietly joy-ride around the neighborhoods and show off their fancy ride. Quite an expensive hobby. Seems to be wife-driven.
AND the kids are riding upscale electric bikes. They ride everywhere. You can tell when school lets-out 'cause here they come. Those E Bikes aren't cheap either. Quite elaborate. At least they are quiet.
THEN there are the drones. These kids have electric drones and seem to be having a blast. I found one behind my house the other day. Apparently it ran out of range or battery and down she went. Still intact but lost.
So with all this progress with electric tech, I can see the flying motorcycle being a real thing in the near future.
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Protocall_Design
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It may be, but think about the difference of highly trained airplane pilots that have strict maintenance protocols versus the average car driver that is texting more than driving, and does no car maintenance.
It's a lot more dangerous to have an accident at 1000 ft. up than on the ground. If the motor quits, you fall like a rock.
It's a lot more dangerous to have an accident at 1000 ft. up than on the ground. If the motor quits, you fall like a rock.
Reminds me of a ditty I heard from my dad.
"There was a young man from Boston.
Who drove a little white Austin.
There was room for his *** and a gallon of gas
But his legs hung out and he lost'em".
"There was a young man from Boston.
Who drove a little white Austin.
There was room for his *** and a gallon of gas
But his legs hung out and he lost'em".
I dearly love riding motorcycles since I was a kid and still do. We always wondered if the future would bring us personal helicopters someday. Maybe we'll be able to see that soon.
I still have a wee bit of hooligan in my veins, but the angel on my shoulder tells me to sit out the heli-car/bike thing. Pass.
I still have a wee bit of hooligan in my veins, but the angel on my shoulder tells me to sit out the heli-car/bike thing. Pass.
My eccentric, chain-smoking Grade 11 maths teacher had an Austin. It may have been little and white when it left the factory, but by this time he had moved the firewall back, put in a Corvette engine and painted it (as I recall) red and black. Looked like a wreck but went like a bat out of Hades
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Well, you step out of that thing while those props are running and you'll never do that again. I didn't see anything in the safety paragraph about whapping your head on one, but there was something about a parachute. Don't you have to get up pretty high for a chute to safely open?
Now, if they can give it that cool whistle/motor sound, like in The Jetsons, I'm all in!
Now, if they can give it that cool whistle/motor sound, like in The Jetsons, I'm all in!
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If there is a group of people that have clubs & meetings with a mutual love for these things, they can be called the "Heli Angels."
Hair Trigger
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"Flying motorcycle"....any time you're doing over 100 on one of those things you feel like you're flying even if the wheels are still on the ground. 145 is as fast as I ever want to go while still connected to the ground. Too much stuff in the way that won't move for you.
62 mph in the air seems too pedestrian for what they want for it. Heck a Piper Cub goes faster than that. And I don't want anything that I can't control. Autonomous anything is a non-starter for me. Looks like a two-wheel drone you can ride in.
62 mph in the air seems too pedestrian for what they want for it. Heck a Piper Cub goes faster than that. And I don't want anything that I can't control. Autonomous anything is a non-starter for me. Looks like a two-wheel drone you can ride in.
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I find it hard to believe that James Bond didn't already have one.
I just saw a video of a small inflatable boat with an overhead sail similar to a powered hang glider take off in a harbor and fly around, at least you have water for a landing if things take a turn for the worse. I do know how hard water can be after doing a cannon ball off the back of a buddies speed boat at slightly over 60mph, it will remove your swim suit...
when has a license ever stopped anyone . . .
Bajadoc
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I'm still waiting for flying cars and the coming ice age............
