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Vintage Works of Green Bay, Wisconsin, built a replica 74-Z speeder bike in 2017 using a Zero electric motorcycle. [28] Also in 2017, a team from Lithium Cycles worked with YouTube prankster Jesse to build a pair of 74-Z bikes using their Super 73 electric street motorcycles which they showed off on the streets of New York City. In order to ...
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STAPs, which first appeared in The Phantom Menace and have featured in other Star Wars media, are designed to appear reminiscent of the speeder bikes seen in Return of the Jedi. [82] The STAP's design also relates back to Lucas' 1973 idea of ridable "jet-sticks" which appeared in early drafts of the original Star Wars movie. [ 83 ]
[49] [50] So for 2000 [9] models and later motorcycles, the question of which brand's bike was fastest could only be answered by tampering with the speed limiting system, meaning that it was no longer a contest between stock, production motorcycles, absolving the manufacturer of blame and letting those not quite as fast avoid losing face. [50]
The Aero-X is a hoverbike designed to carry up to two people. [4] The Hoversurf Scorpion 3 is a hoverbike launched in 2017. [5] It is used in limited numbers by the Dubai Police Force. The A.L.I. Technologies XTurismo was on sale in Japan from 2021, and in the United States the following year.
On Nov.11, 2018, the company launched a third model to their product line, the Z model. [16] The Z model was significant because it had a retail price of US$1,000, making it affordable to a wider audience. Along with the expansion of their product line up, the company received $8.75million USD in investment [17] and started sales in Europe.
MiniBe (flying wing for mapping, could be modified as a loitering munition), RayBe (tilt-rotor mapping drone), Iris (multipurpose quadrotor for inspection, cargo and surveillance), and OmniBe (hybrid fixed-wing VTOL for wide area surveillance), made by Bentara Tabang Nusantara (BETA UAS), a drone startup based in Bandung [118]
The Malloy Hoverbike is [1] a single-seater turbo-fan powered, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) quadcopter developed in 2006 by New Zealand inventor Chris Malloy.The hoverbike has two forward and two aft-mounted vertical propellers each enclosed in a hoop nacelle.