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the US Army Research Laboratory has tapped a uk-based engineering company Malloy Aeronautics as well as US National Defense engineering companies service engineering to develop hoverbikes for the US Department of Defense both companies made the announcement last Tuesday at the international Paris Air Show in France the Malloy Aeronautics hybrid Hoverbike resembles a large drone and is powered by a 1170 CC four-stroke engine turning to large oak propellers supported by a lightweight carbon fiber frame the hover bike has a takeoff weight of just under 600 pounds and can fly up to 91 miles on a single tank of gas the hover bike was engineered and built by Chris Malloy founder of Malloy Aeronautics in his garage in Sydney Australia and gained notoriety after successful Kickstarter campaign where Malloy raised over a hundred one thousand dollars to develop the hovercraft further the p2 Hoverbike is still undergoing testing using a smaller drone model due to safety and legal concerns and has been flown with human riders while still tethered to the ground you can read more about the Malloy Aeronautics p2 hover bike on the crave blog at crave chena comm the crave story was written by Danny Gallagher my name is Stephen Meacham