02 June 2025

If you're a Star Wars fan and ever dreamed of zooming through the forests of Endor on a speeder—just as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia did in The Return of the Jedi—you big day may be approaching fast.

Polish inventor Tomasz Patan has developed the Volonaut Airbike — an 86-pound, jet-propelled "skybike" that can attain speeds up to 124 miles per hour. 

The Airbike is constructed from carbon fiber and 3-D printed parts and deploys a proprietary stabilization system and flight computer to make operation easy.

At press time, we don't know how long it will take for consumers to jump at the opportunity to leave their Harleys and Hondas in the dust and level up to an Airbike. The project was just moved out of stealth mode to letting media (such as The Droning Company) talk about it.

But at least the Volonaut Airbike proves it's no longer an action-flick fever dream to consider speeding across the skies on a flying motorcycle.

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