Preparing for eVTOL Racing | Inside Alauda

In the first episode of Inside Alauda, Alauda Aeronautics Founder and CEO Matt Pearson looks back on Airspeeder’s successes of 2021 and early 2022: from our partnerships with IWC and Telstra, to our EXA Series Drag Race and recruitment of their first pilots. Matt also reviews progress on the Alauda Mk3 flight program and how it has rapidly advanced towards the first remotely-flown flying car / eVTOL races in Airspeeder’s 2022 EXA Series international Grand Prix. In the engineering team, vital preparations continue to ensure our Speeders are ready for race day. Alauda Aeronautics Embedded Software Engineer Florian Breut, as he runs through the steps to validate the new control layouts: through simulation, smaller drones and then in full-scale integration with the Mk3C in flight and race testing environments. Florian is integrating HOTAS (hands on throttle and stick) control systems into the Alauda Mk3C with support from Telstra Purple and Amazon Web Services. Newly appointed First Draft pilot Zephatali