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The Airspeeder Mk3 is an unmanned eVTOL being developed by Australian startup Alauda Aeronautics and its subsidiary Airspeeder. In the future, a competition called the EXA series will be held through this, but a drag race test flight was conducted prior to this.
The location is the South Australian wilderness. Two Mk3s were divided into Team Alpha and Team Bravo and flew remotely. The height is 15 m above the ground and the distance is 300 m. The speed recorded 155 km/h and the game was won by Team Bravo by 3.2 seconds.
The Mk3 weighs 100 kg and can fly at a top speed of 201 km/h with 96 kW output. It takes 2.3 seconds to reach 100 km/h. The sensors are equipped with lidar, radar, machine vision, and a collision avoidance system that creates a meteorological force field around the aircraft.
The developer is working on the development of the Mk4, which can be driven and controlled by humans. The EXA series is scheduled to start in 2023. It is expected to be completed by this time. These flying technologies will be dedicated to transporting cargo or moving people in the sky. If the unmanned flying drag race is properly serialized, it seems that interest will be gathered. Related information can be found here.
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