{"id":8694,"date":"2014-08-30T01:35:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T05:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2014-08-30T01:35:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T05:35:27","slug":"sci-tech-malloy-aeronautics-hoverbike-project-lifts-off-with-13-scale-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8694","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Malloy Aeronautics hoverbike project lifts off with 1\/3 scale drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hover-bike.com\/MA\/\" target=\"_d\">Malloy Aeronautics<\/a>\u00a0has designed a one-person ducted-fan vehicle, i.e a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hover-bike.com\/MA\/the-hoverbike\/how-you-can-own-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">hoverbike<\/a>, and hopes to pay for its\u00a0development with sales of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hover-bike.com\/MA\/product\/drone-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">1\/3 scale-model drone<\/a>\u00a0version. They have more than\u00a0doubled\u00a0their \u00a330,000\u00a0goal in a Kickstarter campaign to cover marketing the drone :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1524806320\/hoverbike\" target=\"_d\">Hoverbike by Chris Malloy \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0f2105;\">The objective of this campaign is to kick-start sales of our beautiful 1\/3rd scale Hoverbike drone and accessories via your pledges, and to help create a long term income stream that we can use to continue development of the manned Hoverbike.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is their Kickstarter video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1524806320\/hoverbike\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More about the project:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/article\/technology\/watch-robot-ride-hovercycle\" target=\"_d\">Watch A Robot Ride A Hovercycle &#8211;\u00a0Popular Science<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"tgam_video\" title=\"The Globe and Mail Embeddable Player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/technology\/technology-video\/video-hoverbike-aims-to-take-aviation-to-a-new-level\/article20135445\/?videoembed=true\" width=\"480\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u00a0Malloy Aeronautics\u00a0has designed a one-person ducted-fan vehicle, i.e a hoverbike, and hopes to pay for its\u00a0development with sales of a 1\/3 scale-model drone\u00a0version. They have more than\u00a0doubled\u00a0their \u00a330,000\u00a0goal in a Kickstarter campaign to cover marketing the drone :\u00a0Hoverbike by Chris Malloy \u2014 Kickstarter The objective of this campaign is to kick-start sales of our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8694\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: Malloy Aeronautics hoverbike project lifts off with 1\/3 scale drone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2ge","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10825,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10825","url_meta":{"origin":8694,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: US Army supporting development of the Malloy Hoverbike","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Malloy Aeronautics\u00a0of the UK and\u00a0SURVICE Engineering Company\u00a0in the state of Maryland\u00a0are teaming on development of the Malloy Hoverbike under a US Army\u00a0grant. 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