Our team firmly believes that there are great prospects for these types of vehicles either for leisure or professional use in regions where normal bikes and ATV's may face difficulties navigating the harsh terrain.
Due to the hoverbike’s ability to glide through air, it will not be subjected to friction, traffic and other obstacles on the ground.
Through this project we hope to tap into one of the most niche and under researched markets in the automotive industry and find new ways to fabricate lightweight airborne personal carrying crafts.
To make innovative strides in the automotive industry through hands-on projects and research. After thoroughly reviewing existing design teams, we concluded that no other team has tapped into this newly developing concept and we hope to tap into one of the most niche and under researched markets in the automotive industry; to find new ways to fabricate lightweight airborne personal carrying crafts. Our premier goal is to find innovative ways to create sustainable and efficient automobiles. We hope to further research improve and fine tune this idea. This will be done through research in the mechanical, biological, chemical, and programmable aspects of the automotive industry in mind.
In summer of 2021, we hope to find an identity as a team as we recruit new members and organize ourselves to develop team plans and budgets. We will also be speaking to leaders that specialize in innovative technology within the automotive and cleantech industry to gain funding knowledge and materials to finalize, design schematics of the first hoverbike prototype. In the session of 2021- 2022, the first 1:8 prototype will be created in order to determine how reasonable the design is; we will design multiple prototypes of the hover bike and go through rigorous testing in the following months while fine-tuning the design and eliminating variables and potential safety hazards. From 2022 to 2025, we will create more prototypes in order to further refine the hoverbike design and efficiency. We also hope to have gained sufficient funding and data to build the final hoverbike build where we will be able to operate the hoverbike for prolonged time periods.
The requirements in terms of space are pretty minimal in the first two years of the project. We hope to gain an access to a classroom or a space large enough to conduct meetings and work on the prototypes. We believe that most of the first two years would be spent on acquiring funds and research. In the later stages of the project, we will require space to test and build the bigger prototypes and the final build. We will need to get a garage-like space and access to a metal shop in order to fabricate our hoverbike. We will need to acquire raw material such as fibre glass to construct the body, 3D printers, circuit boards, and probably a computer for programming.
