Samson Sky Announces “New Pilot Training Program for Switchblade Flying Car Owners”  

U.S‑based Sam­son Sky, the devel­op­er of a per­son­al fly­ing car that both dri­ves and flies, announced this week a pilot train­ing pro­gram for poten­tial cus­tomers who have not learned to fly, reports a press release.

The release explains, “Cit­ing the increas­ing­ly large num­ber of non-pilots who have reserved their Switch­blade, the com­pa­ny intends to cre­ate a pro­gram to help stream­line the cus­tomer expe­ri­ence.” 

This has come about after Sam­son Sky car­ried out an exten­sive sur­vey on the region­al trav­eller mar­ket, in par­tic­u­lar peo­ple who take jour­neys of 250 to 500 miles, for busi­ness, plea­sure or both. There are an esti­mat­ed 22 mil­lion region­al trav­ellers in the U.S. 

Sam Bous­field, CEO and Founder of Sam­son Sky, com­ment­ed, “The sur­vey showed a high lev­el of inter­est in pur­chas­ing a fly­ing car, where 80 per­cent of those express­ing inter­est were non-pilots.” 

He con­tin­ued, “Based on these sur­vey num­bers, if we pro­duced thou­sands of vehi­cles a year, we might not even scratch the sur­face of the demand we are see­ing for a vehi­cle such as the Switch­blade.” 

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The com­pa­ny points out its pro­gram will not be exclu­sive­ly for Switch­blade own­ers, as non-cus­tomers will also be able to take advan­tage of the pro­gram to earn “their wings.” 

Reser­va­tions Man­ag­er, Martha Hall Bous­field, remarked, “Over the years, count­less peo­ple have said that if we pro­duce the Switch­blade, they will get their pilot’s license, telling me, ‘I’ve been dream­ing of hav­ing a fly­ing car my whole life and I am not miss­ing out!’” 

The com­pa­ny cite that after an air­line pilot short­age was pre­dict­ed, many peo­ple saw this as a great oppor­tu­ni­ty to pur­sue a new career, and the num­ber of U.S stu­dent pilots tripled over five years, reach­ing near­ly 320,000 by 2023.

For pilot train­ing, Sam­son Sky plans to col­lab­o­rate with estab­lished flight schools, while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly lay­ing the foun­da­tion for its own train­ing infra­struc­ture. 

Bous­field said, “One key por­tion of our pro­gram is the use of advanced flight sim­u­la­tors where stu­dents can mas­ter each new maneu­ver before going up in the air.”  He smiled, “As always, we’re think­ing big!”

Sam Bous­field

The release con­cludes, “The Switch­blade Fly­ing Sports Car is a high­way capa­ble, hybrid elec­tric vehi­cle that is high-per­for­mance both on the road and in the air. You can park it in your garage and lat­er dri­ve the vehi­cle to a near­by air­port, using high­ways and local roads. Once there, the wings swing out and the tail extends in under three min­utes. 

“You then fly your reg­is­tered air­craft to the air­port near­est your des­ti­na­tion, then sim­ply land, trans­form back to dri­ving mode – the wings and tail ful­ly enclosed and pro­tect­ed – and dri­ve the last few miles to your jour­ney’s end. The Switch­blade seats two, side-by-side, with room for trav­el bags, and flies up to 450 miles on a sin­gle tank of pre­mi­um auto gas. Esti­mat­ed cruise speed in the air is 160 mph.” 

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.samsonsky.com

(Images: Sam­son Sky)

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