Actually, this particular design has been rendered obsolete. An inventor
in Australia has come up with a new concept in hoverbike design. He started
out with a bicopter design, with the two rotors gimbaled for control. He
quickly found that he couldn't recover from a tight turn. So, he tried a
design similar to a quadcopter, but with the two pairs of rotors overlapping.
The result was a compact design that vectors the thrust for control. The body
and frame is a combination of aluminum and carbon fibre, much like a
lightweight bicycle.
He has moved to Britain, and has acquired funding from an Angel investor,
probably the US DoD. He has at least two working scale models, and a full-size
version is soon to come.
Here's a video of one of the scaled models:
https://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/hover2.gif
and a link to his website:
https://www.hover-bike.com/
John Carpenter did not imagine such a thing in "Avatar", but you can be
certain that he will in the sequel.
>
>> That's nuts to use that with open blades. Accident guaranteed to happen.
>
>That would be absolutely perfect for crowd/riot control.
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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