Welcome Pegasus Aerospace: “The Lean, Mean, Green Fly & Drive Personal Vehicle for the Rebellious at Heart”

Anoth­er Fly & Dri­ve vehi­cle comes to the mar­ket, but with a twist. It dri­ves like a feisty Go-Kart and takes to the air like a waspish but­ter­fly. The com­pa­ny behind it has Aus­tralian roots, but now resides in Las Vegas under the name Pega­sus Aero­space Cor­po­ra­tion.

The press release says, “The world of advanced air mobil­i­ty is a fer­ment of activ­i­ty, with much tech­no­log­i­cal devel­op­ment focus­ing on the use of pure-elec­tric propul­sion. Being the first to come out with an eVTOL with the great­est range, the light­est bat­tery pack, the fastest speed, and the best eco­nom­ic mod­el, has been the holy grail of avi­a­tion for the past ten years or more, but tech­ni­cal and reg­u­la­to­ry bar­ri­ers per­sist. How refresh­ing, then, to see a com­pa­ny that has an AAM offer­ing ready in the here and now.”

The com­pa­ny even refers to its cre­ation as an “Air Fer­rari” where it is “not only a hybrid VTOL, but is also a sports car whose sophis­ti­ca­tion chan­nels For­mu­la One.”

Per­haps, the vehi­cle exudes an arro­gance to boot?

The aim is for the Fly & Dri­ve to gain a heli­copter pilot’s license along with a driver’s license, where the own­er can park the Pega­sus in a home garage; then take a short dri­ve to the near­est ver­ti­port or air­field; and take off for a des­ti­na­tion, repeat­ing the process on the oth­er side. So, the aim of every glob­al Fly & Dri­ve vehi­cle com­pa­ny.

“A car trip that might nor­mal­ly take 60 min­utes one-way will lit­er­al­ly only take 15 min­utes door-to-door,” con­tin­ues the release. “This is con­ve­nience per­son­i­fied!”

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The com­pa­ny states the E‑Class has a range of 300 miles and can fly for up to three hours before requir­ing to refu­el. And fill­ing the tank is easy. Now, here we go with the hybrid-fuel. The release says, “You just pull into any gas sta­tion and fill up with nor­mal high-octane gaso­line.” 

Hang on, where is the green ele­ment?  

The release con­tin­ues, “As a car, the E‑Class can achieve over 75 miles per hour on pure-elec­tric pow­er.” So, the dri­ving is green and the fly­ing is petrol. Sneaky. 

The com­pa­ny explains, “The Pega­sus prod­uct range encom­pass­es sin­gle and dual-seaters and a 4‑seater air taxi, the “Pega­sus Air-Taxi,” and its poten­tial appli­ca­tions span the gamut of civil­ian, med­ical, logis­tics, police, and emer­gency ser­vices.” Adding, “There is a Pega­sus con­fig­u­ra­tion to suit any buy­er and any need.”

Now, it becomes more seri­ous. 

The E‑Class civil­ian and police mod­els, claim the com­pa­ny, have already obtained air­wor­thi­ness reg­is­tra­tion with Australia’s Civ­il Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Author­i­ty (CASA) and are flown in Aus­tralia under exist­ing air­space reg­u­la­tions. 

“A big mile­stone for Pega­sus in 2024 will be lever­ag­ing its CASA reg­is­tra­tion and inter-oper­abil­i­ty stan­dards between Aus­tralia and the U.S to fast track obtain­ing the equiv­a­lent reg­is­tra­tion from the FAA,” con­tin­ues the release. “Pega­sus Aero­space is look­ing for­ward to end­ing 2024 in the posi­tion of being able to offer U.S con­sumers the abil­i­ty to enjoy a real fly­ing car!”

Mean­while, the company’s ambi­tion is, as you would expect… Robust.

It aims to become a lead­ing glob­al man­u­fac­tur­er of “Air-Fer­rari” fly­ing cars and to pio­neer estab­lish­ing and oper­at­ing short-haul point-to-point “Pega­sus Air Taxi” ser­vices among the 57 biggest U.S metro areas, fill­ing gaps in the exist­ing hub and spoke air­line ser­vice mod­el. In the mean­time, Pega­sus is to intro­duce the E‑Class to the North Amer­i­can avi­a­tion world at CES in Jan­u­ary 2025.

Good luck to the com­pa­ny and come next Jan­u­ary and CES, who knows where this may go? Mean­while, the videos are well worth a watch.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://bepegasus.com

(Images/Videos: Pega­sus Aero­space Corps)

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