Yeehaa!!!! Hover Boards are Here!!
 

Back to the Future: Company Looks to Sell Hoverboards to Military

ORAC,

It occurs to me that this idea may link up nicely with the short-lived "Shopping delivered by Drones" Thread. Clearly this is the Final Solution.

The (human) Drone can deliver the shopping ! Simple !

Danny42C.

But ... I don't live by a lake!

SF might have an interest, though, if it's not too noisy.

M PN11,

The things seem ro be able to vertical take off and land on terra firma. But I can see
the advantage of flying over open water in event of power failure !

If the things could be made reliable (or carry a parachute), they might have a future.

Rather glad I will not (hope not to) live to see it !

Suggested applications ?

Danny.

Danny it does say it has engine redundancy built in, I can see it having it uses for rapidly moving people ashore or ship to ship, and the automatous litter for flying wounded off the battlefield to rear treatment areas seems a sensible idea

Visibility of overhead telephone wires, power lines etc would surely be a problem for anyone on a mission.

Applications?

Getting home from Happy Hour in the Mess on a Friday night? What could possibly go wrong?

LJ

OK, try one of these too>>>>
Martin Jetpack

Last time I read up something like this it's range was about two minutes in the air, interesting to know what this one does?

If you mean the Hydrogen Peroxide ones, I think the endurance is pretty much fixed at about 30 seconds!

jolihokistix (#6),

Not if you went round at 6 ft agl. You would need to come down anyway to look for "Mon Repos"

Danny.

Remember Danny they are buying into the technology, by the time a militarised version appears one would imagine it will be bigger, safer, and have a greater range and payload.

Ah, but could it carry an Ass ?