If an aerospace company like Boeing can build a real-life X-wing, some other company needs to get on the ball and build a real-life ornithopter from Dune.

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Boeing built a flying, full-scale Star Wars X-wing not as a movie prop or a theme park gimmick, but as a real test of its electric cargo drone technology. The aircraft, a modified version of Boeing’s ...