Here’s one to cheer up your inner 8-year-old: In the next few years, you may be able to visit a real-life Millennium Falcon. Since 2005, Chris Lee’s Full Scale Falcon project has been one of those ...

ALLEN, Texas -- Building things; that’s something Bret Miller learned as a boy. His neighbor growing up was an older guy named Charlie, who taught him how to use a saw and all kinds of other tools.

Hence the proposed solution, the falcon of the Falcon Project: a 48-foot double-blimp, catamaran-style airship, with a “proprietary” engine that can allegedly fly silently at speeds of 45 knots, stop ...