I bet that every single fan of Star Wars series will be glad to see this prototype. It is still in development phase so that the bike is not available for official usage. This is the reason why the vehicle is tied to the ground when testing: Chris Malloy states that his vehicle is stable enough, but nobody wants to break his head or the hover bike if something unexpected happens.
Driving and control of the hover bike is very similar to the common bikes. To go up, the pilot needs to increase the thrust using a throttle handle with the right hand just like on a motorbike. Moving forward includes an increase in thrust and redirection of the air flow from the front control vanes via twisting the left handle grip. To turn left or right rider has to push the handles down on the side he wants to turn.
The hover bike has two propellers powered by 80 kW (nearly 110 horsepower) engine with electronic intake pipe injection. Fuel tank can hold 30 liters of fuel (which could be burned for a half an hour considering that the engine burns 0.5 l/min) or 60 liters with additional tank. Body is made of carbon fibers with Kevlar reinforcements and foam core. Leading edges of the propellers are made of carbon fibers too, but the material for the rest of them is Tasmanian oak.
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