Star Wars hoverbike becomes a reality

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Star Wars hoverbike becomes a reality

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A California-based company has invented and tested a real working hoverbike.

23 August,2012 04:52 am

According to Innovation News Daily, a hoverbike was designed in the 1960s, but the plans were abandoned after engineers couldn’t make the aerial vehicle stable. Aerofex managed to fix the problem with a pair of control bars at the knee to give the bike a sense of natural stability.The LA Times reports that the low-level control bars allow the rider to control the hoverbike by leaning left or right.Aerofex has been working on the bike since at least 2008, and now they have a pretty impressive prototype.Mark De Roche, an aerospace engineer and founder of Aerofex, said: “Think of it as lowering the threshold of flight, down to the domain of ATV’s (all-terrain vehicles).”John M. Davis, a former technical director for the American Helicopter Society International, said that he was very impressed with the machine but wasn’t sure if it would find a market.