Watch Video: Latest Creation From Man Behind Jetson One, “The Volonaut Flying Airbike”

Yes, agreed, there have been fly­ing motor­bikes in the past that have come to noth­ing, but what offers cre­dence to this lat­est cre­ation called ‘The Volo­naut Air­bike’, is the Pol­ish inven­tor behind it. He is the man who cre­at­ed the Jet­son One. His name is Tomasz Patan.

Per­haps, some might dis­miss him as an eccen­tric Heath Robin­son of the skies, draw­ing whim­si­cal elab­o­rate machines to achieve sim­ple objec­tives, but that is where it ends. He has tak­en his for­mer fan­tasies, con­struct­ed and then test flown them, where the Jet­son One, for exam­ple, should be com­mer­cial­ly avail­able and ready for per­son­al use by the end of this year. 

Yet, not con­tent with one inspir­ing inven­tion, Tomasz, a motor­bike enthu­si­ast, has cho­sen to cre­ate anoth­er futur­is­tic mar­vel, ‘The Volo­naut’. 

It is a jet-pow­ered, sin­gle-seat fly­ing vehi­cle that looks like a motor­cy­cle, but soars through the sky at speeds of up to 124 mph. With a flight com­put­er, jet propul­sion and auto­mat­ic hov­er­ing, it’s not just fast, it’s smart too.

A press release states, “It can nav­i­gate through tight spaces that are bare­ly wider than the vehi­cle itself and has a ful­ly redun­dant fly-by-wire con­trol sys­tem send­ing rid­er’s inputs straight to a triple-redun­dant flight com­put­er which com­bines them with data from onboard sen­sors and feeds to the sta­bil­i­sa­tion sys­tem.” It adds, “On top of that the fly­ing motor­cy­cle can auto­mat­i­cal­ly land and take-off on its own, mak­ing the flight expe­ri­ence safer.”

Film footage of the Volo­naut was recent­ly uploaded to Youtube and with­in five days had attract­ed over 100,000 views.

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While this pro­to­type was first launched at the end of April, there is now an Air­bike pre-order reser­va­tion avail­able, open from August 1st.

https://volonaut.com/preorder

Patan explained, ”The chal­lenge was to come up with real-world reli­able core tech­nol­o­gy that can be shrunk down and wrapped with a func­tion­al and bold design. The result is a first of its kind vehi­cle with incred­i­ble per­for­mance, stun­ning looks that actu­al­ly resem­bles a sports motor­bike, and it is fly­ing!” 

Volo­naut will man­u­fac­ture a com­mer­cial hov­er­bike ver­sion with a top speed of 102km/h or 63mph to meet the ‘Ultra­light’ clas­si­fi­ca­tion require­ments allow­ing every­one to ride it in the air, away from dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed areas with­out need­ing a pilot licence. 

Spe­cial­ly devel­oped train­ing led by pro­fes­sion­als will ensure that own­ers learn to safe­ly and respon­si­bly oper­ate it.

The Air­bike will go into pro­duc­tion in lim­it­ed num­bers at a launch price of USD880,000. The com­pa­ny says it has begun work on a pre-pro­duc­tion ver­sion and aims to share first flight footage next year.

Not sur­pris­ing­ly, the main­stream media is enchant­ed by the Volo­naut. The New York Post, for exam­ple, gushed about the inven­tion. It’s head­line reads, “Star Wars speed­er bikes are real — and they can reach mind-bog­gling speeds.” 

The arti­cle points out that an ini­tial video released ear­li­er this year, divid­ed pub­lic opin­ion with many sug­gest­ing com­put­er trick­ery like AI had been used. And why Patan decid­ed to release this lat­est footage to prove the scep­tics wrong. Mean­while, the com­par­i­son to Star Wars and its pop­u­lar speed­er bike can only be a good thing for the com­pa­ny. 

The release con­tin­ues, “The Air­bike is the first hov­er­bike to achieve flight with­out tra­di­tion­al pro­pellers, mark­ing a his­toric mile­stone in avi­a­tion tech­nol­o­gy. Thanks to this, the flight is excep­tion­al­ly smooth with no vibra­tions and a greater degree of con­trol, mak­ing the human-machine bond­ing expe­ri­ence incred­i­bly reward­ing and excit­ing.”

It adds, “The rid­er lit­er­al­ly feels like a super­hero with the abil­i­ty to glide through the air with no effort and the sen­sa­tion of full three-dimen­sion­al free­dom.”

The prob­lem being: How many can afford USD880,000 and rather like the Jet­son One, the idea of it fly­ing over pub­lic areas and conur­ba­tions is com­plete­ly unre­al­is­tic. Like the Jet­son One, it will need to be pri­vate land where peo­ple are a rare com­mod­i­ty. 

Please Watch Video About Pol­ish Inven­tor, Tomasz Patan, “The Wiz­ard of the Skies”

The release con­cludes, “The world’s first fly­ing super­bike is catered to those who thrive on speed and inno­va­tors alike, fus­ing futur­is­tic aes­thet­ics with inno­v­a­tive approach to engi­neer­ing. Air­bike is not just anoth­er fly­ing machine; it’s a state­ment of free­dom, thrill, and cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy. It rep­re­sents a new and very excit­ing way of expe­ri­enc­ing the skies.”

For more infor­ma­tion 

volonaut.com

(Images: Volo­naut)

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