Scientist Successfully Takes Flight in Flying Electric Scooter From: Product Design & Development - 03/30/2016 Thomas Senkel is a bit of an adrenaline junkie. How else would you classify a person who builds and flies an electric scooter attached to a canopy? Senkel recently took flight in his prototype, named the Skyrider One, for approximately 46 minutes above Spain's Canary Islands. Senkel thinks, according to a report by Gizmag, that the prototype’s maiden voyage marks the first instance of an electric two-wheeler taking flight. Read the entire article and view a video (2:56) at: http://www.pddnet.com/industry-brief/2016/03/scientist-successfully-takes-flight-flying-electric-scooter Links: Skyrider One (in German) http://www.skyrider.one/index.htm Flying electric scooter aces 46-minute maiden test flight http://www.gizmag.com/skyrider-one-thomas-senkel-flying-electric-scooter/42544