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PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Is it a bike? Is it a plane?

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

Looking like a heavy mountain bike, it weighs 95 kilograms. It has two battery-power propellers in the front, two in the back and one each on the sides. A dummy rode in the saddle.

The bike’s six propellers are all powered by batteries allowed the contraption to be controlled much like a remote controlled helicopter (though in this case, Hexacopter or Sexcopter would likely be more appropriate).

“Our main motivation in working on the project was neither profit nor commercial interest, but the fulfillment of our boyish dreams,” project participant Ales Kobylik told Ceske Noviny as translated by Fox News.

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.

The team hope the human version of the bike will be available by the end of the year.

Not addressed are the safety questions about the bike. Obviously, if the bike fails when the operator is 20 metres up in the air, whether due to mechanical or operator error, a simple helmet probably won’t be enough to save the rider from death or horrible injury.