Many were skeptical after the first video, including me. Yet my skepticism lost some ground when I looked further into the capabilities of Jetcatusa micro turbines. A few weeks ago after that first flight, he announced an upcoming major public demo later in April, when interviewed by a French magazine ...
Well, he delivered.
2.2 km.
This is huge, imho.
Earlier video and related thread here.
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what puzzles me is how he can keep altitude
you can see how the pilot is not too comfortable on it, he was mentioning that very few people may ride this hoverboard, as leonardthall is mentioning the pilot is somehow the algorithm...... also when he lands and turns to go back he is grabbing helpers hand to do a half turn
I just had too...
Nobody has mentioned how similar the Flyboard Air is to the hover platforms in "Masters of the Universe". Yeah, Skeletor coming through the dimensional gate with soliders on hover platforms, right down a residential street, that's probably the coolest scene in the movie.
@Joe As a skeptics and tiny thinker in my defence that is the best policy until sufficient evidence is presented. Otherwise you have to believe everything on the internet. You will notice skeptics change their opinion when the evidence is sufficient where the true beavers only dig deeper when it is not.
Yeh, I think you are right.
Leonard, check out this article (google translated). 4 turbines + two lateral for yaw. They must have some sort of control board, he also talks about a stabilization algorithm ... For all we know they may have been inspired by some Ardupilot control code!
Hi Olivier,
I looked these blokes up and they do the jet ski powered water jets stuff. That is why I initially thought they were just adding some computer generated graphics to cover up the water pipe and jets to get some publicity.
Because of their background I suspect that this board is almost entirely human stabilized in the same way the water jet version is.
Awesome innovation though. That must be a very light pilot or they have 3 or 4 turbines hidden in that thing.
@Leonard: Add baro, mag and GPS (preferably RTK), and on to ArduJet! Spline waypoints in auto should be comfy. Although personally I think I'd go for sports mode.
Great Job guys :)
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