FLYING CARS ARE READY TO RACE IN AIRSPEEDER SERIES FOLLOWING 250TH ALAUDA TEST FLIGHT

Alau­da Aero­nau­tics, the cre­ator and tech­ni­cal team behind Air­speed­er, has suc­cess­ful­ly con­clud­ed its 250th test flight, val­i­dat­ing the com­pa­ny’s mis­sion to accel­er­ate an indus­try that is pre­dict­ed by Mor­gan Stan­ley to be worth $1.5 tril­lion by 2024.

This next phase will bring elec­tric fly­ing car rac­ing to a glob­al audi­ence through the world’s first Grand Prix series, host­ed on every con­ti­nent for the advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) indus­try to build aware­ness for eVTOL tech­nol­o­gy.

Fur­ther­more, it will dri­ve Alau­da Aero­nau­tics to devel­op the world’s first pri­vate per­for­mance eVTOL craft for pri­vate use, cre­at­ed by entre­pre­neur Matt Pear­son in 2019.

In ear­ly 2020, the com­pa­ny announced the con­clu­sion of a seed round that raised sig­nif­i­cant funds from Jelix Ven­tures and Salt­wa­ter Cap­i­tal, who were attract­ed by the company’s proven route to com­mer­cial­is­ing the eVTOL indus­try.

This expos­es Air­speed­er to audi­ences native to indus­tries worth a col­lec­tive $47 bil­lion with an audi­ence and num­ber of active par­tic­i­pa­tion in the bil­lions, when in 2021, the Swiss lux­u­ry watch­mak­er IWC Schaffhausen joined Air­speed­er as engi­neer­ing and time­keep­ing part­ner.

Air­speed­er has attract­ed some of the world’s lead­ing back­ers of tran­si­tion­al motor­sport, includ­ing Acro­nis and its deliv­ery part­ner Teknov8, one of the world’s lead­ing cyber secu­ri­ty com­pa­nies, DHL, the Ger­man logis­tics giant and Tel­stra, Australia’s lead­ing telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny in part­ner­ship with Ama­zon Web Ser­vices.

Ama­zon Web Ser­vices is work­ing with Alauda’s engi­neers to pro­vide remote con­nec­tiv­i­ty solu­tions util­is­ing 5G tech­nol­o­gy to dri­ve the suite of tech­nolo­gies that will deliv­er safe rac­ing and the abil­i­ty to broad­cast and stream to a glob­al audi­ence in real time.

For exam­ple, the ‘vir­tu­al force field’ which utilis­es the lat­est LiDAR and RADAR tech­nolo­gies to ensure Speed­ers can race blade-to-blade with­out mak­ing con­tact will allow safe autonomous eVTOL pas­sen­ger fly­ing in urban set­tings.

In June 2021 the com­pa­ny revealed footage of the world’s first full-scale elec­tric fly­ing race-car flight. These tests have con­tin­ued with the world’s first mul­ti­ple vehi­cle flights includ­ing a his­toric drag-race.

Alau­da has attract­ed some of the world’s lead­ing tech­ni­cal tal­ent, which includes senior engi­neers from Air­bus, Boe­ing, Fer­rari, Rolls-Royce, Mclaren and Jaguar Land Rover.

A high­ly tal­ent­ed pilots ros­ter is led by for­mer F1-dri­ver Bruno Sen­na of For­mu­la 1, For­mu­la E, FIA World Endurance Cham­pi­onship dri­ver and World eX race win­ner. He per­son­al­ly works on mod­i­fi­ca­tions for drones and is fas­ci­nat­ed by the iter­a­tive tech­ni­cal improve­ments that can be made through mod­i­fi­ca­tions and upgrades.