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title: The Only Problem with Hoverbikes is...
author: George Mandis <george@mand.is>
date: 2011-06-10
tags: post
---

There's an [article in Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/hoverbike-helicopter-2011-6) today about an Australian mechanical engineer named Chris Malloy who wants to build hoverbikes and sell them for $40,000.    You'll find plenty of [still photos of the hoverbike](http://www.hover-bike.com) being test on his website, but the only video available is this smoke test on YouTube:

<iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="600" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KuGCnn67G58" frameborder="0">
</iframe>

From the website:
 
>"...we also need to learn to fly the bike."