Flying bicycle makes successful test flight

Dodging buses and cars in the morning rush hour could be a thing of the past for the hard-done-by cyclist thanks to a new invention by a group of bicycle boffins.



Three companies in the Czech Republic have teamed up to make a prototype of an electric bicycle that is capable of flying. The machine is controlled remotely while in development but its designers hope to have it capable of carrying people soon.



They also hope battery technology will advance enough to improve the five-minute flights it is capable of performing and make the invention marketable.


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Looking like a heavy mountain bike, it has two propellers in the front, other two in the back and one on each side. Its six engines are powered by batteries. "Because the capacity of batteries doubles about every 10 years, we can expect that in the future the capacity would be enough for the bike to used for sports, tourism or similar things," said Milan Duchek, the technical director of Duratec Bicycles.