http://ultralightflyingscooter.com/
For anyone wondering what present to get me this year, look no further.
That thing looks like it sucks, to me. This is just a flying parachute with a scooter attached. What value does the scooter offer? It looks like it would be terrifying to sit on a scooter at several thousand feet rather than sitting in a nice snug seat in a harness. The scooter adds weight, reduces performance, and looks stupid.
My first thought was that this was a joke page. I simply don’t get the point. You’re essentially replacing a 20 lb chair with a heavy scooter for no reason I can fathom.
Are you sure that this aint a con? :dubious:
I’ll stick with my hoverboards, thanks… :dubious:
Oh, you are all such spoilsports! I love it!
Sign me up.
We can fly over their houses with water balloons. 
The same function that has had inventors working on flying cars since the dawn of aviation.
The scooter gets you between where you are and a suitable landing or take-off field. Your also not completely stuck if the weather is unsuatable for flying.
In the 1940-50’s Cessna and Piper had the idea that they’d make airplanes for ordinary joes…every family had a car, so every family should have an airplane.
The problem is that at most GA airports there is no public transportation, and no way to rent a car.
Ever since The World is Not Enough, I’d assumed these things were generally available. Just not with so many rockets and hand grenades and such.
Sign me up, too! I WANT ONE! My brothers would be SOOO jealous!
Jealous, hell! Imagine how they will tremble when you fly over with water balloons.
Chicken, meet Egg. Egg, meet Chicken.
A slightly greener version, a pedal powered recumbent tricycle. To get in the air, however, a 30 horsepower motor is required.
All that dough put into R&D, and they couldn’t spring for a fricking tripod for the camera? I have a nice headache now from the camera shake in that landing video.
I still want one, though. They built a massive parking lot at my job that no one ever uses…it’d make for a nice landing strip. I’ll take cutting my commute from an hour down to 15 minutes.
That was from the box kite chase plane.
Forget the flying scooter. I want one of those.
We must fly out of different GA airports, then. Then there’s the whole “courtesy car” thing, which I’ve found available even where there aren’t rentals.
OK, my first question about this is “where’s the freakin’ seat belt”? I fly ultralights and open cockpit airplanes (yes, I spent allllllllllll that time and alllllllllllll that money to get a pilot’s license) and I’m quite comfortable hanging out in the windstream at several thousand feet. You ain’t gettin’ me on that “flying scooter” without a seatbelt. Why? It’s a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong way down to the very, very, very hard ground. I’m sure I could get 2 or 3 good, hearty screams in before impact. That’s not the way I want to shuffle off the mortol coil, thank you very much.
2 gallon flight tank? That’s not going to leave you much flight time. I notice they coyly did not list fuel burn per hour while in flight. You’ll either have to stop often or carry extra gas as baggage - which can be hazardous.
I should also point out that with a 220 lbs maximum payload, and 210 lbs max for the pilot, and gas at 6 lbs/gallon, a 210 lbs pilot will blow the max payload if he tops off the tank. Granted it’s only by 2 lbs and thing will still fly, but it’s generally not a good idea to exceed manufacturers’ recommendations.
“A well running and adjusted engine on an Ultralight Scooter Aircraft should achieve a minimum of 300 ft per minute climb rate when fully loaded at sea level and 80 degrees F.” – Please note, if you are above sea level you will get less climb per minute than this. May I remind you that most folks do live above sea level. Also, 300/fpm is a pretty lame climb.
Also, in order to get maximum climb or maximum glide out of an aircraft requires some practice and skill. The average Joe strapping into this thing (where are those seat belts…?) is not going to achieve those numbers the first dozen or fifty times he tries it.
Tuned exhaust? Get ready for noise complaints. If you put a muffler on it you’ll reduce the available power, that is, you’ll get a less than 300 fpm climb and reduce your cruise speed.
If you fly this under FAR Part 103 you will be restricted not only to airports without control towers (no big deal - that’s mostly what I fly out of by choice) but you will also be barred flying in the vicinity of airports with control towers, over towns, and so forth.
How do you carry the parasail when driving around on the road? Folded up, sure, but in a saddlebag? Strapped to your head? How?
Frankly, I’d forget the scooter and just buy the parasail. But that’s me.
Adds Broomstick’s house to his list of water-balloon targets
Oh please Santa!
I’ve been ever so good!
If you happen to look up while dropping those water balloons you’ll see me… looking down on you… just before the mischief hits - bwa-HA-HA-HA-HA!
You’ll be parachuting and we will be under powered flight. 300’ a minute is faster than you can climb, right?