Samson Sky Hails Record-Breaking Sales for Switchblade Flying Car

Dur­ing last week’s Air­Ven­ture Avi­a­tion event in Oshkosh, Wis­con­sin, Sam­son Sky announced its Switch­blade per­son­al fly­ing car has attract­ed a fur­ther 115 orders val­ued at close to USD22 mil­lion. This two-seat “fly­ing sports car” now has over 2,400 reser­va­tions from 57 coun­tries, includ­ing all 50 U.S states. In addi­tion to these reser­va­tions, over 100 vehi­cles have been pre-pur­chased by those want­i­ng to gain the ear­li­est deliv­ery posi­tions.

Sam­son Sky inter­rupt­ed their ongo­ing all-impor­tant flight test pro­gram to dis­play the vehi­cle at Oshkosh. The over­whelm­ing response from the many thou­sands attend­ing was one of great excite­ment.

The press release offers sev­er­al exam­ples. A Jon H enthused, “I’ve been fol­low­ing the Sam­son Switch­blade for over a decade and as a pilot and engi­neer I’m eager to have my own! To always have a car with you wher­ev­er you fly is such a huge asset and con­ve­nience.” A Heather G stat­ed, “Over the years, I’ve looked at sev­er­al fly­ing cars, but the Switch­blade is one-of-a-kind and tru­ly rev­o­lu­tion­ary! I’m going to use it for recre­ation and in my busi­ness. My daugh­ter and I are both pilots and we can’t wait to get our fly­ing sports car!”

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Sam Bous­field, design­er of the Switch­blade and Founder and CEO of Sam­son Sky, com­ment­ed, ”It was great to be back at Air­Ven­ture to take advan­tage of all the indus­try experts and sup­pli­ers who attend the show. We were able to hold sev­er­al key meet­ings with future part­ners and investors that made the show an even big­ger suc­cess for us.”

He con­tin­ued, “The feed­back we’re get­ting is, the prac­ti­cal­i­ty of the Switch­blade checks all the box­es for what peo­ple tru­ly want in a fly­ing car. We hope a Switch­blade will grace the skies and streets of your city very soon.”

The test flights to date have been held at the Moses Lake Air­port in Cen­tral Wash­ing­ton, with a team mak­ing sure the test­ing was accom­plished suc­cess­ful­ly. Pow­ered by a 200 hp liq­uid cooled Sam­son 3 engine, the vehi­cle is being run through a rig­or­ous pro­gram to val­i­date flight capa­bil­i­ties and find and cor­rect any devi­a­tions from the com­pa­ny’s lofty goal of “high per­for­mance in both modes as a car and a plane.” 

These flight tri­als will con­tin­ue for sev­er­al months while the Sam­son Team learns from and then finalis­es the pro­duc­tion engi­neer­ing that will allow Sam­son to begin Switch­blade pro­duc­tion.

The release con­tin­ues, “Sam­son has been work­ing through the details of pro­duc­tion to keep up with the great demand being expressed for the Switch­blade. The team spent near­ly four years devel­op­ing car­bon fibre pro­duc­tion process­es to enable the com­pa­ny to ramp up parts pro­duc­tion quick­ly and at much less cost than the cur­rent state of the art.”

Back­ground

The Switch­blade is a three wheel, street-legal vehi­cle that you keep parked in your garage.  You dri­ve it from your garage to a near­by air­port. Once there, the wings swing out and the tail extends in under three min­utes. You fly your reg­is­tered air­craft to the air­port near­est your des­ti­na­tion, at up to 160mph. Then you sim­ply land, trans­form your fly­ing sports car back to dri­ving mode – the wings and tail safe­ly stowed and pro­tect­ed – and dri­ve to your final des­ti­na­tion.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.samsonsky.com

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