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The future, finally, is here, we've learned from Dvice. For those of us who marked 2015 as the date we would get flying hoverboards, there isn't much hope for our dreams being realized. Fortunately, Samson Motorworks feels our pain. While we don't have airborne skateboards, the company has recently designed a three-wheeled, flying motorbike (or is that motortrike?). Ditching the idea of four-wheeled vehicles for more aerodynamic three-wheelers, Samson has designed two prototypes using motorcycle engines (for less emission) and rear-weight placement (to avoid overturning on the ground).
However, the coolest part -- besides the flying motorcycle bit -- is that each vehicle has exceptional wing capacity. The Skybike uses special, scissor-like wings that can carry the vehicle aloft at 134 mph, and retract when not in use. Plus, of course, the Skybike has a cushy interior with air-conditioning and MP3 capacity. Though there is no price on these certainly expensive vehicles, Samson is slating them to hit dealers next year. Finally, a reason for all of our preemptive flying lessons. [From: Dvice.com, via Gizmag]
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Subscribe to commentsdeckJun 7th 2009 5:34AM
Nice design but inherently totally instable (rear center of gravity ), no human can fly that manually, you will need a bloody good computerized command and that does not come cheap (would be by far the most expensive part of the plane).
markJun 7th 2009 11:41AM
YEeeaaaaawwnnnnn....In the first place there are a number of these types of high tech projects being shelved right now due to multi-million dollar investors dropping like flies in a mist of yard guard. Secondly, the shadow government will not allow common people to have personal flying craft such as this because of security issues, and the fact that out air traffic control systems can barely handle what's in the air already, not to mention the fact that the global GPS system is antiquated and near failure itself. There are many, many, other great reasons why this project WILL NOT become a reality - but i am quite sure it will be developed far enough to "soak" wealthy investor boys who have "Jetson" dreams. Aaaah yes, a fool and his money are soon parted!