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Aug 21

Star Wars Hover Craft Coming to a Dealer Near You

One of the iconic images of the first Star Wars movie is Luke racing across his home planet, Tatooine, in a hover craft. If all goes according to plan, we could buy something similar by 2014. Via BuzzFeed, a company called Aerofex is developing a hover craft that can respond to a pilot’s natural sense of balance (think Segway ) and can travel at 30 mph, hovering 15 feet above the ground.

Back in 2009, FORA.tv presented another innovative flying machine:

The ICON A5: A Plane You Park in the Garage from on FORA.tv

Image courtesy of mac_filko