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press the bell icon on the YouTuber and never miss another of you first I create the flyball to get the high G of the fireball in 2003 ly 2011 and then Thursday I put my feet on it I just dreamed to remove the hose and the Jets because to be able to fly all around the world and be free and see like a real super super human you what is it like to feel like a superhero it was our dream to bring this filling to you through the design and development of the arc aboard our creativity in the past few months was pushed like never before making it possible for the first time in history for you to fly whenever you want wherever you want there are no limits no restrictions no boundaries only you and the arc aboard feel the power of flight like you never thought possible we are all leaving a mark upon the world we are engineering the future we feel like superheroes and now you can experience it too I visited a super-secret garage in Los Angeles to meet Tim Desroches of air effects the company that created this a vehicle they call the Aero X just don't call it a hover bike the Aero X is a surface effect vehicle a lot of people call it a hover bike technically it's not a hover bike a hovercraft is something that operates only in two dimensions on the ground and the Aero X is a vehicle that gets up to 15 feet off the ground and operates in three dimensions so it has pitch and has yaw the Aero X is the brainchild of Tim's cousin Mark Desroches an aerospace engineer seeing the prototype up close was pretty cool I feel like I've stepped into a dream in the future this vehicle design is actually not entirely new it was a design that came out of the military decades ago but in that case it was more like a helicopter and the guy was just riding it operating it like a helicopter sitting on top and the Aero X the rider rides it like a so you're sitting atop it and you're flying it intuitively and the vehicles following your emotions so what is the key innovation here the key Novation is the control system is flaps they're called ejectors that run around the perimeter of each fan and they control the airflow on the perimeter and closing or opening them will allow you to control the pitch of the vehicle and the yaw of the vehicle pitch is the up and down movement of an object in air or water yo is it side-to-side movement so how far up off the ground can this get so we are aiming to operate the vehicle 5 to 15 feet off the ground we want to be flying over fences over cars we want it to fly over a field of corn for example the applications that we're most excited about our agriculture and search-and-rescue and recreation I think the vehicle is gonna be a lot of fun Tim let me climb on the aero-x which is made out of carbon fiber to get a feel for the controls there you go how does it feel very cool as I do this as you go forward and back you're controlling the air flow and that's gonna control your altitude okay so this is controlling the up and down yep okay and then as you manipulate it's your wrists then you are controlling the pitch okay and the yaw of the vehicle okay and the way you're doing that is opening and closing these flaps these ejectors along the perimeter so how much training does this require to take out so you're gonna need about two hours of training to fly this vehicle pretty effectively because the Aero X flies below 15 feet off the ground you don't need a pilot's license to write it but you're going to have to wait the first production model isn't expected to be ready until 2017 this is the biggest T's ever you get me on this you let me control it and you're not gonna let me go outside right I know maybe if I just refused to leave and keep sitting here change their mind [Laughter]