Space Firm Creates A 'Real Hoverboard' ! // Farthest flight by hoverboard

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Not quite Marty's board but every kids dream is coming a ' hover closer'...

Back to the Future Part 2 Hover Board Chase (1989) HD

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Space Firm Creates A 'Real Hoverboard' !

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Published on 30 Dec 2015


Space Firm Creates A 'Real Hoverboard' !


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/must_see/35201724

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A different design set a record last year.....


Hoverboard World Record

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Farthest flight by hoverboard - Guinness World Records

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Published on 22 May 2015
Watch Catalin Alexandru Duru become the first person ever to break the Guinness
World Records title for the Farthest journey by hoverboard. Full story: http://bit.ly/GWR-
hoverboard

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The farthest flight by hoverboard is 275.9 m (905 ft 2 in) and was achieved by
Alexandru Duru (Canada) at Lake Ouareau in Quebec, Canada on 25 August 2014.

Catalin said:The first real-life hoverboard. The machine was built and designed by me,
Catalin Alexandru Duru. I am the first man to create and fly a working prototype.
I will showcase that stable flight can be achieved with a machine one can stand on and
control with their feet, just like in the movie "Back to the Future Part II". In our case,
the machine is propeller-based.The prototype can be used anywhere, but is usually
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[Bob]

I always wonder about what type of power source is needed for things as this, like what weight to thrust ratio exists, and how much thrust can be obtained over any length of time for a certain amount of power being consumed.. (like how much thrust is possible from some propeller blades)

MythBusters tried a personal flying machine and failed interestingly enough. Shame they won't be on to test one of these systems.. http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2005/06/mythbusters_jetpack_pyramid_po.html with 60 horsepower they couldn't get flight..

Wonder how a hoverboard can pack in >60 horsepower and fly over water too :) is that thing real or really a hoax?

mythbusters test result for personal transport:


Jamie: "Well, the main thing that it feels like I'm in some kind of mixer."

The backpack is nowhere close to flying. Their opinion is that the average joe could not possibly take those plans and be successful.

busted

[Michi]

Brilliant! That could be an effective means to expose a free energy device or whatever might be suppressed by getting an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records.

[Sunny-side-up]

Apart from the down draft, is there any real benefit for being above the machine?

Under = less balance needed
Under = feet on the ground when needed
Under = faster turning and more acrobatic

Above = looks cool

:)

[GNC Harteveld]

Hovering is a very inefficient mode of transportation. You need way too much power to even hover.
You have to overcome gravity, which is equal to an gravitational acceleration of 9.81 m/s2. This would theoretically mean that the power necessary to just hover is equal as having the machine and pilot accelerating in zero gravity vacuum from 0 to 353 km/hour in 10 seconds.