The Aero-X hoverbike will be available as from 2017 are available to purchase for consumers and is already available for 85.000 dollars to order on the website of the project. That has the company behind the hoverbike published on its site.
A working prototype of the hoverbike was at the end of 2012 is presented, but then it became quite silent around the vehicle. According to Cnet, is the development team in the past two years especially have been busy to the hoverbike more stable to fly. The Aero X has the ability to to 10 feet, anything more than 3 meters, above the ground to fly, has a top speed of 72 kilometers per hour and has space for two persons. The vehicle runs on gasoline and can be with a full tank of up to one and a half hours over water and land flying.
The hoverbike is 4.5 metres long, 2.1 metres wide and 1.25 metres high and weighs 365 kilograms and 140 kilograms of cargo to carry. In the air, the Aero X use of two propellers made of carbon fiber, which work in a similar way as that of a helicopter. On board there is a number of gyros and accelerometers are present, an on-board computer to help gusts of wind to compensate.
The control of the Aero-X is done with a steering wheel that is similar to that of a motor. Also, the hoverbike about a number of safety features, allowing the driver to not be too high, too low or too fast it can fly. The developers of the Aero-X say that the hoverbike, for example, can be used as a search and rescue vehicle or agricultural machine.
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