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Background material on the bike explains how the 74-Z, built by the Aratech Repulsor Company, was originally used by the Republic during the Clone Wars before being adopted by the Empire. The bike measures 3.3 m (11 ft) long, can carry one or two passengers, and achieves a maximum speed of 500 km/h (310 mph).
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 ]
The Malloy Hoverbike, an early hoverbike, undergoing tethered hover testing in 2010. A hoverbike (or hovercycle) is a vehicle that can hover, resembling a flying motorbike, having at least two propulsive portions—one in front of and one behind the driver.
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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.
In May 2024, Northrop Grumman revealed an underwater drone named the Manta Ray. [13] The drone, built for DARPA, has been under development since 2020. [14] The Manta Ray represents a new class of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), that were developed to perform long duration, long range military missions with as little human oversight as ...
A Suzuki GSX-R1000 at a drag strip – a 2006 model once recorded a 0 to 60 mph time of 2.35 seconds. This is a list of street legal production motorcycles ranked by acceleration from a standing start, limited to 0 to 60 mph times of under 3.5 seconds, and 1 ⁄ 4-mile times of under 12 seconds.
ZALA 421-08 is a micro air vehicle developed and produced by the Izhevsk, Russia, based ZALA Aero company. It is a small, portable UAV platform. Weighing 9 kg, it includes 2 aerial vehicles, compact ground control station, 2 spare power supply kits and a backpack container used for transportation.