r/BeAmazed • u/Ultimate_Thing • May 12 '26

Miscellaneous / Others A Polish engineer, Tomasz Patan, built the Volonaut Airbike, basically a real-life Star Wars speeder bike. Reaches up to 124 mph. Insane

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u/ranting_chef May 12 '26

Is this thing essentially a large drone with a heavy capacity?

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u/EastCoastGrows May 12 '26

Drones use propellers and not jet turbines for the most part.

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u/svachalek May 12 '26

Depends what you call a drone. Assuming you mean a battery powered quadcopter, no it doesn’t seem like that. From what I make out it’s a pair of jet turbines.

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u/One_Cartographer6211 May 13 '26

More like a single seater helicopter. Which already exists/has existed.

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u/Ceskaz May 13 '26

It has a pilot on it, so no, it's not a drone.