Put wings on your motorbike?

Well apart from the caption (doh).

This is the only patent filed by Larry Neal

Did Ken Wallis patent the design in the US? I suspect this is what this texan bloke has done. No where did he say he had invented it!

[QUOTE=Dave Barrell]Wonder what VOSA, the D of T, Road Safety Councils, Police etc would make of a ‘motorcycle’ or maybe groups of ‘motorcycles’ such as this in a town centre, on a busy saturday morning, at a busy set of traffic lights with milling pedestrians galore. I don’t suppose whirling propellor blades would come in to it…!!??
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On a slight tangent, a couple of our local microlighters found a cracked exhaust on one of their machines after landing away. Not good on a microlight with the prop behind everything. The micro owner was stuck. One of the other micro guys took over, off with the wing, two POB with headsets on down the public highways to a local garage, guy in the back giving hand signals. :dev2: Exhaust welded by bemused mechanic. Same way back to the airfield. :diablo: Wing on. Owner fly’s home. 😮

Dunno, I guess they stick in my mind from when I worked at Budget Rent-a-car and we had a meeting room at the old site at Heathrow with dual aspect windows, one looking up the glideslope and the other across the runways.
I always remember the Air India 747s would always touch down right next to the building when using 09L
That was my favourite meeting room until a few years ago I was working on a project that was based out of Boscombe Down and room 111 overlooked the Operational Evaluation Unit’s ramp, and the runway beyond. Boys with lots of toys……. 😀

Thanks.

Old Rhinebeck thought of this flying bicycle idea some time ago. It had major handling and stability problems… …as I can testify! 😀

Just curious. Why, AIR INDIA, of all airlines that land at LHR?

Dunno, I guess they stick in my mind from when I worked at Budget Rent-a-car and we had a meeting room at the old site at Heathrow with dual aspect windows, one looking up the glideslope and the other across the runways.
I always remember the Air India 747s would always touch down right next to the building when using 09L
That was my favourite meeting room until a few years ago I was working on a project that was based out of Boscombe Down and room 111 overlooked the Operational Evaluation Unit’s ramp, and the runway beyond. Boys with lots of toys……. 😀

Wonder what VOSA, the D of T, Road Safety Councils, Police etc would make of a ‘motorcycle’ or maybe groups of ‘motorcycles’ such as this in a town centre, on a busy saturday morning, at a busy set of traffic lights with milling pedestrians galore. I don’t suppose whirling propellor blades would come in to it…!!??
Also, I wonder if the ‘riders’ will qualify for AA/RAC membership — instead of fuses and fan belts, I guess the patrolmen will have to stock up on rotor blades and propellors……

The mind boggles…………

….. accelerate….lift off…..weeeee…..splat into the underside of an Air India 747 on finals to LHR :dev2:

Just curious. Why, AIR INDIA, of all airlines that land at LHR?

And shouldn’t it be a motor-TRIcycle :dev2: anyway? I counted three wheels, not two!

Paul F (being picky as usual 😀 )

I suspect that Wing Commander Wallis may be able to point to a few of his own patented components, the rotor-head looks very familiar!

So if you were stuck in a jam on the M25 just past j13, you could turn onto the hard shoulder unclip the blades….. accelerate….lift off…..weeeee…..splat into the underside of an Air India 747 on finals to LHR :dev2: