Hoverboard

[FlyDave]

I posted this in another thread but I'm not sure anyone saw it:

If this is real, and it looks like it is - this is absolutely COOL!!!

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Hoverboard-Record-Shattered-226164-1.html

Can you imagine a "highway in the sky" of these things on their daily commute into the city?

[201er]

Now every kind around the corner's gonna have to have one! The FAA can't even get its policy set on little camera drones and now people are going to be flying left and right!

[carusoam]

Falling off that is going to leave some serious road rash...

1) can't be real...?

2) too expensive to fix every time you fall off.  In this case, it sounds like at least one turbine engine.  For safety they go out over the ocean. What keeps the device from going for a swim, automated hover stability?

3) if it's like a skate board, you fall off a lot.

4) if it's like a ground bound hover board, I have fallen off a few times. But, Maybe it's just me. 

5) ground bound hover board experiments for post Mooney fly-in transportation.  Everybody is going to be doing it...

I am hoping it is real.  Leaps in technology for the rest of us...

Best regards,

-a-

[aviatoreb]

I like this one

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/colin-furze-hoverbike/

[1964-M20E]

Neat but highly unstable.  He must have a stabilizing routing similar to quad copter drones.  A couple of the high output turbines used in model aircraft to generate enough lift to over come the operator's weight and the weight of the hovercraft.  The army has been working on this type of stuff for years to allow troops to easily cover rough terrain.

 

The trick it so balance stability, control and safety.

[kerry]

I love that hoverboard.  It's amazing to watch but I'll never want to volunteer.  The hoverbike looks like a good way to loose a limb.