It’s race day in part two of Journey to Test Drag Race. The day that two teams battle electric VTOL remotely in the sky in South Australia for the first time.

In this episode, Airspeeder’s CEO Matt Pearson assesses the conditions ahead of race start and Project Manager Brett Hill outlines the rules of the EXA Drag Race. We also hear from Team Bravo’s test pilot Jonathan Routley, on his experience racing Alauda Mk3 Speeders for the first time and what it took to achieve race victory.

00:00 - 00:49 The challenges of EXA Drag Race
00:55 - 01:12 EXA Drag Race Rules
01:12 - 02:28 Jonathan Routley on Drag Race Victory
02:28 - 04:08 What next for Airspeeder and EXA Series?

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Airspeeder is the world’s first racing series for electric flying cars.

Our mission will accelerate eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) advanced aviation technology through intense sporting competition. This mobility revolution, underpinned by future tech will transform urban air mobility (UAM), global logistics and even medical applications with a clean-air electric vehicle (EV) solution.

Our racing multicopters are developed at our advanced aerospace engineering hub in Adelaide, South Australia by engineers drawn from elite motorsports, automotive, aviation and even FPV drone, electric plane, electric vehicles and passenger drone backgrounds.

Airspeeder’s vision will deliver the most exciting and future focused motorsport on the planet. Following an inaugural unmanned season, elite pilots will take to the skies to race prop-to-prop while navigating electronically governed racetracks in the skies above some of the most visually arresting scenery in the world. These manned multirotor electric vehicles will define a new era in advanced air mobility (AAM).

Airspeeder’s first unmanned air race is scheduled for 2021 and will feature a full grid of multirotor unmanned Airspeeder Mk3 racing craft. The best pilots from drone racing will utilise latest RPAS (remotely piloted aircraft systems) in aerial battles across the globe.

Our innovations will hasten the arrival of new advanced air mobility (AAM) technologies. Close but safe air racing is assured through latest LiDAR and radar technologies that create virtual forcefields around the sport’s cutting edge quadcopter format flying cars. Rapid hair-pin turning manoeuvrability is delivered using a multicopter layout. This pioneering approach to aircraft design also enhances stability while electronic speed control (ESC) systems empower pilots to exploit the full potential of our advanced electric powertrains.

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