>>>>http://aerofex.com/theaerox/
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>>>>oooh I neeeed one!
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>>>Looks like the 'Owners' tab on the website is a mite premature ?
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>>AFAICT there are no physical prototypes, it lives solely in a computer so far. I'm not sure that even qualifies as "vapourware" - vapour has some mass, so far this vehicle has none ...
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>There a video clips of a cruder looking version in the air (just)
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>>A lot of KickStarters are more advanced than this before they start soliciting sales/funds.
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>It said they weren't in need of additional funding at present.

This sort of thing has been played with for a long time e.g. at Avro Canada around the time my dad worked there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar

Computerized control systems a la Segway and its spiritual descendants could probably have solved the stability issues of early designs. Maybe that's what Aerofex et al are using, multi-rotor drone systems are under extremely active development.

I can't help but think if this vehicle is low-elevation only ("think hovercraft" as the company says) there must be better ways to go. If not an actual hovercraft, then some sort of surface-effect craft. Years ago the Russians took that idea to its logical extreme with various "ekranoplans": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekranoplan

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