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  • This 'Star Wars' vehicle is now real, and you don't need a license to fly one

    07/28/2025 8:32:51 AM PDT · by Twotone · 14 replies
    The Blaze ^ | July 26, 2025 | Andrew Chapados
    Employees at aviation and aerospace company Volonaut have been watching a few too many movies. For the general population, though, that's a good thing. While many young males were dreaming of light saber battles or flying through the wilderness on a speeder bike, Volonaut founder Tomasz Patan was thinking about how to build his own futuristic equipment. On Wednesday, the company revealed it had created a real-world "Star Wars" method of transportation. While the Death Star may have been too big of a project, Volonaut's feat is still incredibly impressive, as the company revealed a real-life speeder bike, listed on...
  • Australian guy builds himself a hoverbike. A hoverbike!

    06/16/2011 12:13:17 AM PDT · by Immerito · 52 replies
    Dvice.com ^ | June 9, 2011 | Evan Ackerman
    What goes 173 mph at 10,000 feet that you ride like a motorcycle? It's either a Star Wars speeder bike, which doesn't exist, or this hoverbike invented by some Australian dude, which actually does. And you don't even need a pilot's license to fly it. Chris Malloy's prototype hoverbike has so far not done anything but hover while tied to the ground, but that is in no way stopping its designer from making all kinds of wildly optimistic projections about its performance and availability. Expect this thing to be able to travel at upwards of 170 mph, and you can...