Three companies in the Czech Republic have created a flying bicycle. They have a prototype that is controlled remotely at present, rather than having a human rider.
Pretty cool, I thought.
(Via Machines Like Us.)
Mano Singham
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Nothing inspires confidence like having a mannequin pilot your invention 🙂
It’s got six fans, two in the front, two in the back, one on each side, but it looks terribly unforgiving when it loses a prop.
It’s a bicycle wrapped in a food processor inside a death trap.
Presumably the remote-control pilot’s comment about “motionlessness” is somebody’s mistranslation of “inertia”.
Even if they get the battery problem solved, I for one don’t want to try riding one of those in a cross-wind.
I’m not overly fond of the idea of anyone trying to ride one near me, either.
That could be it or more likely the mannequin only weighs two kilos.