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This Hybrid Airplane Actually Uses a Supercharged Kawasaki Superbike Engine

Kawasaki's H2 engine is all the rage lately. Between it having a starring role in Top Gun: Maverick in the brand's Ninja H2 superbike platform, to powering insane drones, and more recently, setting fire to the dunes in Kawasaki's all-new Teryx H2 side-by-side. The latter of which broke RideApart's Kyra Scadalan's brain. 

There was also that horse...

But the supercharged, 999cc superbike engine has a habit of being known as a pretty solid platform to build off of. After all, if you can supercharge and throw 34 pounds of boost at it, you can probably do a lot more with it if you pay attention to your engineering. What, however, is the limit? We know the sky ain't it, as the drone is a VTOL type of machine. But what about it powering something that'll take people, live, human, people like you and me, to those same skies? 

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