If you grew up on a diet of Back to the Future hoverboards, The Rocketeer’s jetpack antics, and Anakin absolutely sending it on a podracer, something like this was probably inevitable: a “flying motorcycle” you can park in a normal garage and fly without a pilot’s license.
That’s the promise behind the LEO Solo JetBike, a new personal eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft) from Indiana-based LEO Flight that trades exposed rotors for 48 ducted electric microjets and just enough low-altitude freedom to make your inner 12-year-old very loud.
But under the sci-fi gloss, the Solo is actually pretty modest on paper, which is part of what makes it interesting.
