Hoverbike Crash In Dubai!

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#1 Post by FD2 » Sat Jun 13, 2020 11:21 am

Looks a great little machine and if it ever gets into production I'm sure they will shield the blades, but I feel the chap should not have been grandstanding in public! I wonder if that was his throttle hand he was punching the air with...pride comes before a....whoops, I know I promised not to scratch it boss....



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#2 Post by Boac » Sat Jun 13, 2020 12:45 pm

Hope he had good leathers on! Those rotors.............

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#3 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sat Jun 13, 2020 5:58 pm

Looks more like an upgrade for the mechanical bull. :))

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#4 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Jun 13, 2020 6:13 pm

Looked totally unstable from the outset!

Looked more like a prototype barkingmad guillotine than an aircraft one could safely fly!
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#5 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Jun 14, 2020 5:03 am

A bit more of the story behind that crash...
For years, personal vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (otherwise known as VTOL) have been heralded as the future of mobility, with companies like Uber, Boeing and Lilium making various promises about when we’ll see a flying taxi in major cities. But while they take their time with planning and prototyping, another company called Hoversurf has been conducting real-world tests for years.

Hoversurf describes itself as an “urban air mobility technology company,” but its standout product is the S3 (short for Scorpion), a hoverbike. When we wrote about the Russian outfit’s quad-rotor, joystick-controlled flying machine back in 2018, Dubai police had reportedly partnered with Hoversurf and were testing the bikes.

Now, video has surfaced of one of the Dubai police’s hoverbike tests in which everything you think could possibly go wrong does:

“Hoversurf admitted in the now-removed video’s description that the crash was the result of a mechanical failure,” wrote the Drive. “Hoversurf’s website states that the S3’s maximum safe operating altitude is 16 feet and that the officer reached around 30 meters (almost 100 feet) at their highest, possibly due to the acknowledged malfunction of the vehicle’s various systems.”

You might be wondering, how did the operator not get a hand, leg, finger or other extremity sliced off after nose-diving into the concrete on a flying blender? “All safety systems worked well, and the pilot was not injured,” wrote Hoversurf, according to the Drive.

If those are the safety systems in action, we’ll gladly stay on the ground.
https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/ ... rash-video

Hoversurf had originally indicated that the equivalent of the altimeter pressure setting was electronically set incorrectly resulting in its automated systems allowing the hover bike to go outside its designated flight parameters.
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#6 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Jun 14, 2020 5:11 am

British inventor Colin Furze is a pioneer of the hoverbike concept in the UK.



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#7 Post by FD2 » Sun Jun 14, 2020 5:26 am

At least with Robbos and the like the pilots are licenced and have knowledge of ATC procedures and radios. Can you imagine what life would be like when the Saturday night clowns or the older ones who like to pretend they are Formula 1 champions get hold of these things? It might eliminate a few of them through natural selection, which is all well and good, unless you're in the machine they've just smashed into.

It's bad enough on the roads most days - people were on the whole driving well during the lockdown, but they are already back to their bad habits - tailgating, too fast etc now that restrictions have been lifted. :-q Imagine that taking place in the air! :-o

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#8 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Jun 14, 2020 8:59 am

FD2 wrote:
Sun Jun 14, 2020 5:26 am
At least with Robbos and the like the pilots are licenced and have knowledge of ATC procedures and radios. Can you imagine what life would be like when the Saturday night clowns or the older ones who like to pretend they are Formula 1 champions get hold of these things? It might eliminate a few of them through natural selection, which is all well and good, unless you're in the machine they've just smashed into.

It's bad enough on the roads most days - people were on the whole driving well during the lockdown, but they are already back to their bad habits - tailgating, too fast etc now that restrictions have been lifted. :-q Imagine that taking place in the air! :-o
I agree with your comments here FD2. Somehow I suspect the hoverbike will go the same way as the flying car has. Technically feasible but totally impractical!
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#9 Post by Boac » Sun Jun 14, 2020 9:28 am

I can see the 'Fuzz' taking to their hover-bikes to catch the fella! :))
If you were 'booked' for using one whilst hissed, would you be charged under Aviation Law?

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#10 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:04 am

The flying limitations (a paltry 16 feet) of that Hoversurf thingamajig make it an ideal vehicle for a comic film, with the Keystone cops chasing miscreants through a metropolis, with the rozzers being beaten in the cods by truck aerials, getting tangled in telegraph wires, bouncing off light standards and crashing into first floor balconies, all the while attempting to spy on scantily clad ladies and the like in their boudoirs ... =))
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