The Hoverbike has been designed and invented by Chris Malloy of Australia .Its main aim is to replace conventional helicopters such as Robinson R22 in every day one man operational areas like cattle mustering and survey not just for working environments but also from a practical commercial position in which it wil be cheap in the market.
It consists of 1170 cc 4-stroke engine connected to two ducted propellers. It can fly up to a height of 10,000 feet and can reach an indicated airspeed of 150 knots(278km/h or 173 mph).Its total thrust is 295 kg.Its max gross weight is 270 kg.It is a single pilot on a kevlar reinforced carbon fibre with foam core frame in between two spinning propellers constructed from Tasmanian Oak with fiber leading edge. It has complicated swash plate setup which is found in single rotor helicopters ,it follows the same principle as a tandem-rotor Chinhook helicopter.
The control of this hoverbike is done by handlebars as in normal bikes.The forward and the reverse movement is controlled by the motorbike-like handlebar grips.The right grip controls the thrust of the bike and the left grip controls the angle of control vanes which are positioned under the rotors to pitch of the Hoverbike down which will take the bike in forward direction and when the nose will go up the bike will move backwards.For turning purpose it is same used as the way we use the handlebars in turning but in this we have to turn it with an extra axis that lets the bike to rotate up and down a little which changes the angle of the front and the rear control vanes.For safer purpose the inventor has attached two explosive parachutes to the hoverbike's airframe.
The dimensions of the bike is 3m long by 1.3m wide by 0.55m high.It requires fuel of 30L to provide a range of 148 km.100 units of this bike is expected to be around US$40,000 in one year.
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