Think I saw a few of those in "The Incredibles". BTW, it was James Cameron.
Charlie
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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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