Tagged: Racing
Airspeeder | The Electric Flying Car Racing Series | Premiering on Fox Sports
Airspeeder has announced the premiere of its highlights show, “Airspeeder: Above The Asphalt,” on Fox Sports Australia and Kayo Sports this week. This is a significant milestone for everyone at Airspeeder and Alauda Aeronautics, and offers the possibility of experiencing the excitement of the first-ever eVTOL circuit race that took
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Alauda Aeronautics Unveils Hydrogen-Powered Flying Electric Race Car
Alauda Aeronautics recently unveiled the Airspeeder Mk4, the first crewed version of its flying racing car. Designed and built in Adelaide, South Australia, the Airspeeder Mk4 is the world’s fastest hydrogen electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Capable of reaching a top speed of 360 kph (225 mph) in
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Airspeeder Announces Fox Sports Australia Deal
Airspeeder has just announced a groundbreaking two-year broadcast content deal with Fox Sports Australia that will bring exclusive, cutting-edge flying car racing content to audiences across Australia. More than 2.8m subs in Foxtel Group. Australian market. The new programming lineup features highlights from the first Airspeeder EXA Series Race in
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Why we oppose today’s planned UK space launch
Tonight’s planned space launch from Newquay ‘spaceport’ is the latest step in a new era of expansion into space by the military with the UK wholeheartedly joining a space arms race which will inevitably lead to greater risk of instability and conflict. Space is rapidly becoming a key domain for
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Racing Drone Based Loitering Munitions System
LANIUS is Elbit Systems’ new drone-based search-and-attack loitering munition designed for short-range operation through deployment via a multicopter as well as by hand. The design is based on racing drones which allows LANIUS to utilize high degrees of speed and maneuverability to essentially rush a target before exploding. Elbit’s introduction
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Drone Racing League and PointsKash Cash in on Inaugural, Five-Year Loyalty-Rewards Partnership
The Drone Racing League (DRL), the world’s premier, professional drone racing property, and PointsKash, the first blockchain-enabled conversion platform for users to aggregate, convert and spend loyalty points, announced an inaugural loyalty-rewards partnership to elevate DRL fandom globally. The five-year deal includes an unveiling of the DRL Flight Club, the
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Zephatali Walsh makes history as winner of the world’s first flying car race
“Every transformative moment in human transportation has been accelerated by motorsport. As we stand on the cusp of the 21st century’s great leap forward in delivering on the promise of flying cars, the role competition plays is as important as ever. For this reason, in winning the world’s first flying
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Drone Racing League Lands Partnership with Google Cloud and Launches 2022-23 DRL Algorand World Championship Season
The Drone Racing League (DRL), the world’s premier professional drone racing property, announced a partnership today with Google Cloud to reimagine a new era of tech-driven sports and win over the developers of tomorrow. Launching the 2022–23 DRL Algorand World Championship Season, DRL and Google Cloud will bring the first
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Review: Eachine Wizard X220 V3 FPV Drone
Review: Eachine Wizard X220 V3 FPV Drone
The Eachine Wizard X220 V3 is a budget 4S 5″ FPV racing drone you can buy off the shelf. You can get start with flying without building the whole drone by yourself which saves a…
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DJI’s New Avata FPV Drone with Propeller Guards has 18-Minute Flight Time
DJI has introduced the DJI Avata, its second FPV (first-person-view) and first cinewhoop-style drone. It can hover like a traditional drone, accelerate like a racer, zoom in and out of tight spaces, and stop “in a fraction of a second”. If it happens to land upside down, the new Turtle
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Alauda Aeronautics Completes 250th Test Flight
Alauda Aeronautics, the creator and technical team behind Airspeeder, the world’s first racing series for flying electric cars, has announced the successful conclusion of its 250th Test Flight. This historic milestone for the global eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) industry validates the company’s foundational mission that racing will rapidly
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Review: Emax Hawk Apex 6S 5-inch FPV Racing Drone
Review: Emax Hawk Apex 6S 5-inch FPV Racing Drone
The Emax Hawk Apex is one of the very few “bind n fly” models that comes with HDZero video transmitter. It’s an extremely light weight 5″ FPV drone that supports up to 6S LiPo battery…
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RaceDayQuads Vs FAA RID ruling
STEPHEN DICKSON, ADMINISTRATOR AND FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, RESPONDENTS On Petition for Review of an Order of the Federal Aviation Administration, Jonathan Rupprecht argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Elizabeth Candelario and Kathleen Yodice. Casen B. Ross, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for
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BRINC launches global rescue network
BRINC is proud to announce the BRINC Global Rescue Network, dedicated to assisting humanitarian efforts around the world. Our team is composed of two dozen public safety professionals, military veterans, and current/former professional drone racing league members located around the world. We will donate the use of equipment, staffing and
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Rise to the Top in the Race to the Bottom
Surveyors and Engineers working with UAVs are finding it difficult to produce quality mapping as they are swamped with cheap drone hardware and software, driving them into the race to the bottom on what used to be a quality-focused profession. While trying to keep initial costs down, the re-captures, heavy
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Orqa and FlyFive33 enter into a new partnership!
FlyFive33, the leading brand in FPV racing equipment, and Orqa d.o.o., one of the top vendors and manufacturers of FPV headsets, officially entered into a partnership on May 27th with the aim of collaboration on design, development, manufacturing and implementation of mission critical drone components and First Person View headsets
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The United States Air Force Renews and Extends Partnership with the Drone Racing League to Celebrate 75 Years of Innovation
The U.S. Air Force and DRL will showcase their mutual commitment to “Innovate, Accelerate, and Thrive” through new cutting-edge content, immersive gaming and pilot spotlights from Military Appreciation Month through the 2022-23 DRL Algorand World Championship Season The United States Air Force and the Drone Racing League, the world’s premier,
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Review: Rush Tank Race II (V2) VTX
Review: Rush Tank Race II (V2) VTX
Here’s a quick review of Rush FPV’s latest Tank Race II video transmitter (V2). It’s a light-weight compact VTX for your FPV drone, racing drone to be more specific as the name suggests. Learn about…
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Review: Radiomaster TX16S Mark II Radio (MKII)
Review: Radiomaster TX16S Mark II Radio (MKII)
The Radiomaster TX16S radio has been the gold standard in the FPV scene for a couple of years now. On every FPV meetup or race, the majority of the pilots would be using a TX16S.…
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Alert for restricted airspace (Temporary) Aintree Racecourse. Merseyside. Drone only
This is a shocker from the UK CAA, there needs to be a proper investigation into who has their hand up the regulator’s back. Smacks of corruption at the highest level. It’s not the helicopters they are worried about it’s the betting syndicates gaining a microsecond advantage from drone live
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Brian Argrow reflects on time as chair and future of DEI in STEM
By Josh Rhoten Like many young people across America at the time, Brian Argrow was mesmerized by images beamed back to Earth of American astronauts engaged in the Space Race. He was just a little too young for Mercury but was certainly enraptured by the Gemini and Apollo missions. And
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DRL doubles its 2021-22 Season viewership-reach and global fanbase as technology becomes the new language of sports
The Drone Racing League, the world’s premier, professional drone racing property, announced today a massive expansion of their global footprint and fandom as the league wrapped their 2021-22 DRL World Algorand Championship Season yesterday on NBC and Twitter. As a leading tech-enabled sport widely regarded for disrupting the sports industry,
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Kawasaki Unmanned Cargo System Combines Aircraft with Mobile Wheeled Robot
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has successfully completed proof-of-concept (PoC) testing for an unmanned cargo transport system. The system combines Kawasaki’s K-Racer-X1 prototype unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft and what is commonly described in the industry as an autonomous mobile robot, and which the company describes as a “delivery robot”.
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The Drone Racing League and Hivemind’s Playground Labs Partner to Launch First Play-to-Earn Crypto Sports Game on Algorand Blockchain
Drone racing is about to fly to the next frontier in sports. Today, Playground Labs, a play-to-earn (P2E) gaming affiliate of crypto-investment fund, Hivemind Capital Partners (Hivemind), and the Drone Racing League (DRL), the world’s premier, professional drone racing property, announced a partnership to extend DRL’s high-speed drone races beyond
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