FLYING CAR PILOTS
MEET THE FIRST OFFICIAL RACING EVTOL AIRSPEEDER PILOTS
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Meet Emily Duggan, Fabio Tischler and Zephatali Walsh: the world’s first eVTOL flying racing car pilots. They will race Speeders in the Airspeeder and EXA race series in 2022 and beyond.
Since 2019, more than 1,500 individuals – from across the world drawn from aviation, racing, performance automotive, UAM flying and even eSports – have answered the call to become pioneers as the world’s first racing eVTOL pilots. As one of the widest talent pools ever assembled to a new form of motorsport, an exhaustive process of selection followed.
To be among this first draft, raw pilot skill is not enough: key attributes far beyond just competitive instincts were assessed in making the final choices. These individuals have been chosen because of their ability to work in lock-step with the greatest technical minds to help develop both an entirely new form of game-changing technology and the very fundamentals of a sport that promises to rapidly accelerate its development and refine a form of aerial motor-racing built from a blank sheet of paper.
In that sense, they are the ultimate development racing drivers and will work as a vital arm of the Alauda Aeronautics engineering team to lead an approach to refine the dynamic and tactical nuances that will make the EXA and Airspedeer races the most compelling and progressive sporting entities in the world. Now, as these historic first remotely piloted Grand Prix races draw nearer, now is the time to reveal the first pilots, supported by Telstra Purple and AWS, that will plot a course to victory and a place in the history books of both the dawn of a new sport and a new, bold era in advanced air mobility.
ZEPHATALI WALSH
Zeph is no stranger to competitive racing in a cutting-edge sport. In 2020 Zephatali was drafted into the Drone Champions League where he competes with Raiden Racing. Like many prospective Airspeeder pilots, his background sits along with the requirements to understand the wider context of the racing he will take part in.
Indeed his path as a student of Environmental Science has developed a fascination with the role that racing plays in creating and accelerating a new clean-air mobility revolution.
EMILY DUGGAN
FABIO TISCHLER
