we take a look at some of the most extreme and incredible personal aircraft one of the earlier
extreme models is a weight shifting wing warping jet mrchia initially began with scale models
and eventually this led to a craft which utilizes a smaller jet engine with 176 pounds of force
and to this date he has made over 150 jumps and 70 circling flights he has
claimed that he can fly much higher than the 500 foot limitation set by authorities
but as of right now he's not planning to sell the model and he only has a few variants out there
the next aircraft is something which i mentioned before and it's a little bit controversial
an amazing video showcased a two prop backpack helicopter with a self-leveling
autopilot the craft is definitely real but the initial vehicle was tethered in a promo video
as pointed out by other youtubers so in this promo video the craft was actually tethered
the whole time but the company did come out and admit that this is a prototype and that they did
edit the video ultimately there are a lot of questions on how developed the copter
pack is but theoretically it does work and the company is expected to come up with more
updates in the very near future moving on we get to the omni hoverboard alexander duo first
flew his electric multi-rotorcraft back in 2015 and now he's pretty much flying it everywhere
powered by eight motors it's probably one of the simplest contraptions out there
the original variant has no flight controller dials or accelerometers for that matter
and it's purely flown through scale however a commercial variant is in the works which will
likely be a little bit more redundant as of right now he's facing a case for failing to request a
takeoff authorization near an airport but that probably won't be stopping him anytime soon
we get to number four and it's the blackfly one of the more extreme designs is also one
of the safest electric vehicles on this list with over 4 000 logged flights the craft has multiple
safety features including an isolated distributed battery system tripler modular redundant controls
and even a ballistic parachute this single seater has a return to home function with geo-fencing
capability making it to be highly automated as well with a theoretical top speed of 80 miles per
hour it could very well be included in electric veto racing in the future at number 3 the mk3
richard browning has come up with this extreme idea of attaching rockets to limbs
with a cost of around four hundred thousand dollars the suit has two mini jet engines on
each arm and a larger one on the backpack the suit roughly creates 1 000 horsepower for approximately
7 minutes but unlike many of the extreme vehicles on this list anyone could test the contraption out
for around 2 grand at the company's flight testing facility training can eventually lead to being a
part of the jetsuit pilot community in an upcoming international race series another notable jetpack
is the jb11 it's probably one of the higher performing models on the market with a 120
mile per hour speed and a flight time of around 10 minutes naturally an undisclosed military consumer
has purchased two classified jb12 variants for a total amount of eight hundred thousand dollars
jetpacks are still very limited to flight times so it will likely take a new type of power source or
some type of revolutionary battery to make these things next-gen and in turn we will probably not
see this commercialized on the market anytime soon at number two the ziva reminiscent of the
iconic flying flapjack the ziva is a one-person electric veto flying saucer which is capable of
160 mile per hour speeds the craft is optimized for vertical takeoff and landing so it can go into
really tight areas the early versions will use a standard set of drone style controls that combine
stick controllers with automation inputs derived from sensors and cameras the company already has a
full scale prototype running on tethers but once again like many projects out there this one is
crowdfunded so it's quite a ways away from being on the market finally we get to the jetson one
a startup company has come up with a new electric veto racer which requires no pilot license in the
united states considered to be an experimental aircraft it will have your typical performance
specifications with a 60 mile per hour speed for around 20 minutes safety features include
a parachute lidar sensors with obstacle avoidance and this will likely improve in newer versions in
the future this in turn will also allow the craft to perform maneuvers such as emergency landing
now this type of flyer is being pursued by multiple companies the mk4 airspeeder is also
an impressive craft being designed to incorporate augmented reality which provides telemetry data
and possibly digital racing tracks in the future another notable feature will include a v2v or eye
communication which creates an online control system and this in turn analyzes each vehicle's
position and trajectory we are starting to see this technology emerge in automated vehicles
so it's going to be very interesting to see how this translates into aerial racing but
anyways i would like to know what you think about all these developments so please leave
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