Volonaut Airbike - GIF

Volonaut Airbike.

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WOW, that looks interesting!!!

Also looks fake. No shadows seen around 0:16 where there should have been, among other reasons.

It shows up multiple places. Not a guarantee it is real. But not out of the realm of possibility.

https://www.streetbikersworld.com/vo...rice-revealed/

Never going to happen
https://youtu.be/-QTXyrHcEdQ

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Originally Posted by chiefwebb

Also looks fake. No shadows seen around 0:16 where there should have been, among other reasons.

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Definitely shadows at 0.19 and 0.22. That jet blast looks very real.

It must have one of these...
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I was listening to the debunk video where it was said they are 7 times lighter than a regular motorcycle OK if Cruiser weighs say 700 lbs how could that thing weigh only 100 lbs? or somewhere it was said that it was electric. To get enough thrust to lift off the ground with a turbine fan under the thing the fan that would fit within the confines of the shroud would have to be spinning at around 200,000 RPM Where would it get forward thrust and stabilization if it only had a single turbine fan then there would have to be ducting and vectoring for the output nozzle. But this would be true even if it were a fuel fed jet engine Not saying it can't happen, but you won't convince me that it exists until I see it fly at an air show.

I agree with Frank S. I don't see any way to control it that looks possible.

It's CGI

Here's my reasoning alongside Frank's. With a propeller driven version of this you have air flow control surfaces, the propeller blades and the air vortices around them that influence air flow. A jet engine needs auxiliary control surfaces. Wings! This thing doesn't have enough surface area to be a lifting body.

I see more and more CGI generations like this. 2 days ago I saw a car show interview that never existed in reality at all. Totally generated by computer graphics. Moral of the story, we are in a tie where we have people perfectly willing to create video and text that has no relationship to reality in order to influence people. NOt sure if the influence is necessarily a good thing coming from people like this.

Mark