Geek Syndicate

Sometimes you see things and just say that would be so cool if it was real but you know it never will be. That is what I thought as a kid when I first saw the speeder bikes in Return of the Jedi but now that little kid is back and with a big grin because it might just be coming true.

Feast your eyes on this baby. It works, it flies, it hovers and can go up to speeds of 30MPH. Woo Hoo. Take a look at the pics and then see the thing in action below in the video.

[The bike] originates from a design abandoned in the 1960s because of stability and rollover problems. Aerofex, a California-based firm, fixed the stability issue by creating a mechanical system — controlled by two control bars at knee-level — that allows the vehicle to respond to a human pilot’s leaning movements and natural sense of balance.

But Aerofex does not plan to immediately develop and sell a manned version. Instead, the aerospace firm sees the aerial vehicle as a test platform for new unmanned drones — heavy-lift robotic workhorses that could use the same hover technology to work in agricultural fields, or swiftly deliver supplies to search-and-rescue teams in rough terrain.

Aerofex has currently limited human flight testing to a height of 15 feet and speeds of about 30 mph, but more out of caution rather than because of any technological limits. Older versions of the hover vehicles could fly about as fast as helicopters, De Roche said.

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So not gonna be on the market just yet but you could always steal one…….