Hoverbike

A hoverbike (or hovercycle) is a vehicle that can hover, resembling a flying motorbike, having at least two propulsive portions—one in front of and one behind the driver.

Aeronautic motors[]

Starting in 2014, Malloy Aeronautics has been developing a hoverbike that has experimented with quadcopter-like lift.^[1] In 2015, the company announced collaboration with the United States Defense Department at the Paris Airshow.^[2]

External video
World's first fully-manned hoverbike tested in Moscow on YouTube

In April 2016, British inventor Colin Furze announced he had created a hoverbike using two paramotors.^[3]

The Aero-X is a hoverbike designed to carry up to two people.^[4]

The Hoversurf Scorpion 3 is a hoverbike launched in 2017.^[5] It is famously used by the Dubai Police Force.

A one-person, or unmanned cargo, flying vehicle with four jet motors at the corners using artificial intelligence to maintain stability that has been described as a "flying motorbike" and named "Speeder" was under development in 2022, an idea that emerged from work with the US Navy. By early 2022 several full-size prototypes had been built. Top speed was 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), and flight endurance was 60 minutes.^[6]

In fiction[]

• This concept is commonly used in futuristic cyberpunk games such as Mass Effect 3 or Cyberpunk 2077.^[7]
• In the Star Wars universe, characters use speeder bikes lifted by repulsorlift engines.
• In Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's crossover video game, heroes can use numerous types of hovercycles as mounts to increase their movement speed on the battlefield.
• In the television show Kamen Rider Revice, Kamen Rider Revi utilized a hover bike as his main mode of transport, the hero vehicle was a XTurismo model developed by A.L.I. Technologies.

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