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Flying bike/car/helicopter/thing...
By Visordown News on 05/04/2012 10:34:29
...the logical next step?

OK, so they're calling it a 'flying car' but since it leans through corners like a bike we figured it was worth showing you anyway.What's surprising about the PAL-V prototype is that, five years after emerging as a set of pie-in-the-sky computer-generated images and dodgy sketche...

And it's goodbye to all that ...
By Tim Skilton on 20/10/2010 10:34:24
500cc World Champion's prize helicopter comes to sticky end just months after his death

WHAT, you may well be asking, is a picture of an upturned helicopter doing on a website dedicated to motorcycles?Chopper fans amongst you may know this isn't any ordinary helicopter, it's an Agusta 109C; an 8-seat twin-turbine multi-million dollar

Accident inquiry for Hislop death
By Tim Skilton on 26/07/2007 20:58:25
Helicopter crash to be investigated four years on

Hislop...killed in helicopter crash four years agoTHE ACCIDENT which killed motorcycle racing legend, Steve Hislop, four years ago, is to be investigated the Crown Office said yesterday.The motorcycle star died when the Robinson helicopter he

Missing motorcyclist's body found
By Visordown News on 21/08/2008 10:44:15
RAF helicopter used to search for missing biker in Snowdonia

A MISSING motorcyclist whose disappearance sparked an RAF helicopter search was found dead in Snowdonia it has emerged. Jonathan Parton, 48, from Telford, Shropshire, was found in the area of the 2560ft (780m) Moel Hebog mountain. The alarm

1250bhp 'motorcycle' aims for 450mph speed record
By Visordown News on 03/01/2012 14:04:52
Conventional engine swapped for helicopter jet turbine

SPEEDFREAK Richard Brown is aiming to raise the motorcycle land speed record to 450mph, using a jet-engine sourced from a helicopter.The project, dubbed Jet Reaction, will use a jet turbine engine capable of producing 1250bhp in standard trim

Hislop hearing: 'Carb icing caused loss of power'
By Visordown News on 01/05/2008 08:21:43
Court shown images of wreckage on third day of inquiry into fatal helicopter crash

Carb icing the likely cause of R44's power lossPICTURES FROM the wreckage of the helicopter crash that killed multiple TT winner Steve Hislop were submitted as part of a presentation by the Air Accident Investigation Branch on the third day

Humberside Police launch anti-speeding campaign
By Visordown News on 24/02/2009 18:24:30
Operation Achilles to target bikers with high-tech helicopter

HUMBERSIDE POLICE are to target bikers in a new high-profile anti-speeding campaign.The force will use their helicopter for the first time to track the speeding bikers in a campaign codenamed Operation Achilles.Humberside Police claim many bikers

Taliban leader killed while riding motorbike
By Visordown News on 04/06/2009 07:31:02
British Special Forces wipe out Taliban activist with helicopter gunship

A RUTHLESS Taliban leader has been killed by American and British Special Forces while riding his motorbike in Afghanistan. Mullah Mansur, a leading Taliban activist, was blasted by fire from an American Apache helicopter, after members of Britain

How hard is Dunlop pushing? This hard
By Ben Cope on 07/06/2013 12:19:21
Helicopter shot shows what most cameras don't

This picture is of Michael Dunlop during the Supersport race heading through The Bungalow.That black line has come from his front tyre and as one former Isle of Man racer said: 'You don't lose the front through The Bungalow unless you're pushing hard.'McGuinness described one of ...

Low flying jets near Hislop crash
By Visordown News on 29/04/2008 07:33:43
Inquiry in death of multiple TT winner hears disturbing new evidence surrounding fatal helicopter crash

THE INQUIRY into the death of multiple TT winner, Steve Hislop, has heard two low-flying military jets were close to the scene 'seconds' before Hislop's helicopter crashed, killing the former British Superbike Champion.According to The Scotsman


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