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Company create Star Wars-style speeder bike

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A company claim to have created a Star Wars-style speeder bike.

Poland-based Volonaut has revealed the Airbike: a small one-person vehicle said to be able to fly at 124 mph.

The firm say: "This groundbreaking design shares a lot of similarities to "speeder bikes" featured in popular science-fiction movies."

"This is the first such "hoverbike" vehicle that does not use propellers to fly." "

Fine technical details of the AirBike have not been revealed, with the company reporting the vehicle has "just come out of stealth mode development" by Polish inventor and Volonaut founder Tomasz Patan."

However, describing it as a "superbike for the skies", Volonaut say the AirBike is powered by jet propulsion, with a proprietary stabilisation system enhanced by a flight computer to provide automatic hover and ease of control for its rider."

The company add: "The current version of the vehicle is a result of many months of hard work, solved challenges and multiple failures."

"It took the founder several iterations to get to a working and flightworthy design on which he attempted the first stable flight in May 2023 in Poland."

No timeline for a production model or cost have been released yet.

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