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  • Ellison Chan April 18, 2012 at 5:57am

    Hmm, interesting front page photo:

    hoverbike_imgp3845_small.jpg?width=640

    Let's see, do I want a nice save enclosed vehicle that won't slice me to pieces, if I slip off my seat or an exciting new hoverbike with two giant ginsu knifes in front and behind me?  Ironically, some of us would choose the later.

  • Jesse April 17, 2012 at 11:31pm

    The website for this thing: http://www.hover-bike.com/

  • hovercycle April 17, 2012 at 5:58pm

    Yeah, Malloy needs some fly-by-wire designed by a DIYdrones member!

  • Jay Bryon April 16, 2012 at 5:44pm

    I've seen the test flight video, it does in fact fly, or rather fly while tethered.  However, the real question is controllability, which will require some really good PID tuning and a fly by wire system.  Might be possible, but I like the e-volo better for it's stability and relative safety: 

    http://e-volo.com/Home.html

  • Ellison Chan April 16, 2012 at 2:50pm

    Well, with the scale model test he shows above, it's definitely feasible, but it will be a rough ride.  Entirely, non-practical, though.  It'll probably safer riding a real motorcycle.

  • Rui Manuel Cravo Marques April 16, 2012 at 2:31pm

    I think this could work better if using a tricopter orientation, but using 2 smaller fans on the front or rear and a bigger one for ballance, however, it's a nice prototype.

  • Yuan Gao April 16, 2012 at 2:15pm

    The position of the flaps are too close to the centre of mass of the machine, this means that the flaps will impart more sideways motion than the corrective turning moment needed to stabilise roll.

    It's possible that the hoverbike works, but it doesn't seem particularly well designed (as I say, control surfaces need to be further away from the centre of mass to be more effective).  This is probably why the maker of the hoverbike has taken so long to get it working.

  • Ellison Chan April 16, 2012 at 11:39am

    Ok, I just read the description in the video.  It is fake, just a scaled model.  That's why the physics look fake relative to  the apparent size of the pilot.  

  • Greg Fletcher April 16, 2012 at 11:32am

    If the "real one" was real, I think they would have a video. I think its Photoshopped. I do think it could work, but on the full sized one I don't see the control vanes.

  • Ellison Chan April 16, 2012 at 11:27am

    This one is faker than the Flying Dutchman.  The physics in this video of the Malloy Hoverbike is totally unrealistic.

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