Flying bicycle: A battery-powered bike that can fly

• Is it a bike? Is it a plane? Three Czech companies have teamed up to make a prototype of an electric bicycle that successfully took off Wednesday inside an exhibition hall in Prague and landed safely after a remote-controlled, five-minute flight.

• A flying bicycle carrying a dummy kept a loft by six electrically-powered propellers during a public presentation at Letnany's fair hall.

• Jan Spatny remotely flies a bicycle carrying a dummy during a public presentation at Letnany's fair hall in Prague


• Looking like a heavy mountain bike, it weighs 95 kilograms (209 pounds). It has two battery-power propellers in the front, two in the back and one each on the sides.

• Chief of project Jane Cinert (L) and electrical engineer Boris Guic prepare a bicycle carrying a dummy for a public presentation at Letnany's fair hall in Prague.

• A dummy rode in the saddle. Milan Duchek, technical director of Duratec, a bicycle frames maker, says more powerful batteries will be needed before a human takes a two-wheeled flight.

• Journalists attend a presentation of a flying bicycle, carrying a dummy.

• The remote-controlled Flying Bike with a test dummy flies during its presentation in Prague.