From Arca Space Corporation in New Mexico, who has experience in space rockets, comes the Arcaboard. Dumitru Popescu, CEO of ARCA Space Corporation said...
“ArcaBoard represents a revolution in motion. For the last 17 years we have developed aerospace technologies that looked to the sky. We took our knowledge and applied it to everyone’s dreams. Dreams of flying,”
Image Courtesy of Arca Space Corp.
Making the claim of twenty minutes of practice and learning to balance your movements upon the board, and you are ready to fly. Critics remark that putting enough high powered fans under a mattress will surely lift it off the ground as if it is not ingenious. I'm not sure that how it works is as relevant as does it work. This DOES work.
Features
- carries a person up to 240 lbs.
- lifts up to30 cm (12 inches) off of the ground
- speeds up to 20 km/h (12.5 mph)
- usage time is 6 minutes with a 60 minute recharge on docking station, 6 hour on wallplug
- forced cooling system
- app for control by smartphone
- color choices, gold, green or blue
- noise 92 dB
Specs
- it has a length of 145x76x15 cm (57x30x6 inches)
- weight of 82 kg (180 lbs)
- electric powered with 272 horsepower and 203,000 watts
- aerospace grade composite materials
- 36 aluminum electric ducted fans
Image Courtesy of Arca Space Corp.
Price
The retail price began at $19,900 and is now available for $14,900.00 according to their website.
The docking station for quick charges goes for $4500.00
Availability
The company announced it had gone in to production in April 2016 with deliveries expected in May 2016.
Yet, when traversing the website to the purchase button, to get an actual delivery date, it says the product is no longer available. No explanation. We have reached out to the company for more information and await a reply.
Sources
The company website - http://www.arcaspace.com/en/arcaboard.htm
sUAS News - http://www.suasnews.com/2016/04/arcaboard-production-delivery-start/
The Verge - http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/24/10663228/arcaspace-arcaboard-hoverboard-skateboard
Newsweek - http://www.newsweek.com/hoverboad-actually-hovers-arca-409520
https://steemit.com/news/@jennsky/new-inventions-magazine-8-hover-boards-series-1-zapata-flyboard
https://steemit.com/inventions/@jennsky/new-inventions-magazine-8-series-2-hover-boards-omni-hoverboard
https://steemit.com/inventions/@jennsky/new-inventions-magazine-8-series-3-hover-boards-the-flike
https://steemit.com/news/@jennsky/new-inventions-magazine-8-series-4-hover-boards-the-aerofex
https://steemit.com/inventions/@jennsky/new-inventions-magazine-8-series-5-hover-boards-the-hendo
This is dated material as of September 11, 2016
