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To kick off 2024, we once again head back to Flying Failures, and this time cast our eye over one of the strangest and most notorious aerial inventions ever to take to the skies.

Despite its obscure looks, though, the Aerocycle concept was based on an incredibly far-sighted idea to provide fast and versatile mobility for infantry units on the battlefield, creating what was, in theory, a flying motorbike that could conduct recon missions and fast assaults against lightly defended targets.

However, a cursory glance at the Aerocycle's design illustrates a number of serious problems with this machine, ones which could have had fatal outcomes had this project not been scrapped after a cumulative flying time of just 43 minutes.

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References:
- Key Aero (and their respective references)
- Wikipedia (and its respective references)