Drone racing series Airspeeder is like taking Formula One to the skies

When Marty McFly arrived in 2015 in ‘Back to the Future: Part II’, hoverboards, self-lacing shoes and flying cars were the norm.

While the predictions made in the film might have been very optimistic – self-lacing shoes might be a way off – the introduction of flying cars might be closer than you think.

This comes after the launch of the ‘Airspeeder Mark I,’ a low altitude quadcopter aircraft from Australian start-up Alauda Racing.

Conceived and designed over two years by tech and space entrepreneur Matt Pearson, the electric powered Airspeeder will participate in a competitive racing league.

“We’ve merged an F1 car with a racing drone and turned it into something completely new,” Pearson explained.

“It’s easier to build a hovering, flying car. What we wanted to do is race and when you want to race, you need an enormous amount of power very, very fast.

Source: edition.cnn.com