Air speeder is on its way to starting a flying car series, and the company has successfully completed its first race in South Australia.
The Australian company, Alauda Aeronautics, which is the parent company of Air Spyder, sent two teams representing two types of flying cars produced by the Australian company to the deserts of South Australia.
Air Spiders conducted its first successful flight test on June 17.
At the time, the company announced that this year it would begin a series of races for this type of aircraft, called the EXA, before the start of the eVTOL Grand Prix pilot racing series in 2022.
Historic moment
The engineering brain behind the new flying car racing series is Aluda Aeroneotech, which has developed a range of electric vertical flying and landing vehicles known as eVTOL that will participate in the flying car races.
“We are about to change the history of motorsport with the world's first electric flying car race,” Matt Pearson, CEO and founder of both Aluda and Air Speeders, said in a statement. “This test race offers the world a glimpse into the next generation of motorsport, this test race The first is a historic moment in the creation of this sport and a giant leap forward for the development of electric flying cars."
The MK3 Air speeder weighs just 100 kg and will come with a 96 kW electric powertrain, allowing it to reach top speeds of 125 mph (201 km/h). hour).
In September of last year, Air Spyder announced a partnership with Acronis to develop "Virtual Force Fields" with LiDAR and Machine Vision technology, which will eventually be used as a security feature for the series. Human piloted aircraft.
competition and technology advancement
In its statement, the organizer of the flying car racing series said it was "built on the philosophy that nothing accelerates technical progress like sports competition."
As such, the company believes that its new racing series will play "the same role that (Formula 1) pioneers have played nearly a century ago in driving technical development and building public acceptance of the new racing revolution."
Therefore, Air-Spider is positioning itself as a test bed for technologies that will help boost the eVtool sector.
In turn, this will help the transition to cleaner, zero-emissions modes of transportation, thanks to technologies developed by the likes of the flying taxi company Volocopter, which aims to start its services by 2023. It is worth noting that the market for flying taxis is expected to reach 6.63 billion by 2030.
Air Spyder's remotely piloted EXA series is set to kick off next year, with teams to be revealed in January.
The EXA races will be longer than the test race (shown in the video), although they are also test races.