Dubai police flying bike to patrol city from 2020 (Video)

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Dubai police flying bike to patrol city from 2020 (Video)
Dubai police flying bike to patrol city from 2020 (Video)

The hovering cycles cost a massive £114,000 each and can only fly for 40 minutes at a time.

A Russian-owned company plans to sell them to the Dubai police but only to drivers who can prove the can handle them.

The bikes have been launched in the hope that they can help first responder units reach areas that would otherwise be difficult to reach.

The futuristic vehicles should be in action by 2020 and are the latest extravagant expense by a force which already boasts a Ferrari and a Lamborghini among its patrol car fleet.

The “electric vertical take-off and landing (EVTOL) bikes” were delivered by a Russian-owned California-based company called Hoversurf, which signed a deal with the force in 2017.

Footage of the police training shows one officer wearing a motorcycle helmet taking off from a football pitch in a flying lesson in front of Dubai’s skyline.

‘Currently we have two crews already training and we’re increasing the number,’ said Khalid Nasser Alrazooqi of Dubai Police.

Designers Hoversurf presented the flying contraption to Dubai authorities at GITEX, an annual technology trade fair in Dubai.

The firm said they could provide 30 or 40 to Dubai if police were interested and said the emirate’s law enforcement had exclusive rights to order as many vehicles as they needed.

Civilians will also be able to buy the contraption for £114,000 but will have to be screened to establish whether they can use it safely.

The 253-pound, battery-powered bike can fly for up to 40 minutes in its ‘drone mode’ before it will need recharging.

Featuring three-bladed propellers it can fly at 60mph up to 16 feet above the ground.

Hoversurf is also developing a number of other vehicles, including a “drone taxi”, which it claims can fly a maximum distance of 186 miles at 155mph for just over an hour.

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