Hoverbike, flying motorcycle, Malloy Aeronautics, Surrey, United Kingdom

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Manufacturer - Malloy Aeronautics

Website - hover-bike.com

Inventor - Chris Malloy

youtube.com/malloyhoverbike

facebook.com/MalloyHoverbike

Malloy Hoverbike on Wikipedia

"Hoverbike" on Kickstarter

 

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Hoverbike Helicopter airflow visualization smoke test

Uploaded on Feb 13, 2011

Airflow visualization using smoke through the rotor system to help correlate between real-world and theory.
This test is without the control surfaces.

 

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Malloy Hoverbike Scale Model

Uploaded on Feb 12, 2012

The video above shows me testing the new flight assist control software for the scale model (my first real program written in c - and yes, I do not have exact pole placement ;-) )

 

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Hoverbike Scale Model Ver:1.2

Published on May 22, 2012

Still refining the design.
This flies well, but I am not happy with it to go on sale. I am current working on Ver:2.
This next version should be the RC one for sale. I want these to out perform a quadcopter. The Hoverbike has the advantage of better efficiency and faster roll rate leading to better acrobatics. The trick is making the scale model as simple and cheap as a quadcopter. That's easy on the full size bike but a challenge small model keeping the size, weight and cost down, when you don't have a budget and ability to mass produce. Will get there.

 

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Hoverbike Kickstarter Campaign

Published on Jul 22, 2014

It is with enormous excitement that we can now officially say we have launched our Kickstarter campaign!
This is our video for the kickstarter campaign we have on from now until the end of August.

 

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P2 Hoverbike Test Flight

Published on Jun 15, 2015

Our second generation Hoverbike in a unmanned static hover.

This vehicle is very capable of lifting a person of at least 100kg, however for safety and legal reasons we are testing this vehicle as a drone for the time being, as it makes do difference to the aircraft if it's lifting a human or dummy payload.

MA Drone 3 production test flight before shipping

Published on Jun 17, 2015

 

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Chris Malloy, CEO Malloy Aeronautics (Hoverbike). Drones, Data X Conference 2015

Nov 19, 2015

Chris Malloy, CEO Malloy Aeronautics (Hoverbike) speaks at the Drones, Data X Conference 2015

 

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MA Drone 3 production test flight

Published on Jan 13, 2016

 

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Army flies hoverbike prototype

Published on Jan 13, 2017

Dr. William Roper, director of the Strategic Capabilities Office at Office of the Secretary of Defense and members of his staff visited the U.S. Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, Jan. 10.

 

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Hoverbike - Malloy Aeronautics, P3A Autonomous Mission

Published on Nov 16, 2017

Malloy Aeronautics Hoverbike - prototype no: 03 - on an autonomous mission, conducted testing and evaluation.

This is our 3rd prototype. She is nearly a 1 1/2 years old.
You can also see in one of the photos in this video three of our vehicles, P2, P3a and P3b

This vehicle is all electric, and can carry 130kg. It has shrouded rotors for safety, a redundant drive system (she's a Quadrotor, but there is more going on under her skin than can be seen), and can be operated using a tablet, phone or laptop.

This vehicle has been designed to carry a human, however we are still conducting testing to ensure the vehicle has greater safety and reliability than a typical helicopter (this is the cool thing about it also being a drone - we can conduct 1000's of hours of flight testing before a single person gets on)

A big thanks to our hard working and passionate team, and all of you out there supporting us - and the future!