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Matt Hall rounds a pylon at Chiba. Third place in the Final 4 was good enough to clinch the title by one point from Yoshi Muroya. (Samo Vidic / Red Bull Content Pool)
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Championship Air Race to return in 2022 24 February 2021
Red-Bull-style air racing looks set to return next year after the fledgling World Championship Air Racing (WCAR) announced this week that it had entered a partnership with the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI), which governs air sport world-wide.
The sport has not been run since Red Bull shut-down their series at the end of 2019, leaving Australia s Matt Hall as the reigning champion.
World Championship Air Race to launch in 2022
24th February 2021 8:21 Europe/London
Missing the Red Bull Air Race series? Well, it’s back… without the Red Bull involvement. The World Championship Air Race (WCAR) has agreed a partnership with FAI, the World Air Sports Federation, to stage an international series of air race festivals starting in the first quarter of 2022.
The FAI will provide sporting governance and contribute to the safety oversight for the new series, while granting WCAR exclusive staging rights on a range of piloted air vehicles flown on air-gate courses. WCAR’s headquarters are in the UK.
WCAR will build on the legacy of the Red Bull Air Races using the experience of its production team and competitors gained from their involvement in over 90 races in 34 different cities around the world.
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Emergency response and healthcare company Falck announced February 24, 2021, a collaboration with Silicon Valley’s Kitty Hawk, a company pioneering all-electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The companies will establish a joint innovation platform creating a framework for Project Heaviside, Kitty’s Hawk’s latest high-performance aircraft, to be used in emergency response operations.
The new collaboration adds to Falck’s drone initiative, Vertical, which aims to assess the potential of drone technology in the prehospital and ambulance services of the future. With Kitty Hawk’s Project Heaviside, the company plans to test and evaluate new technologies on a large scale, making emergency healthcare more accessible and affordable. Kitty Hawk brings a world-class team with decades of experience in commercial aviation, aerospace, automotive engineering, flight test and industrial design to the partnership. Project Heaviside is designed to be fast,
Europe s Falck in partnership with Silicon Valley s Kitty Hawk
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SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Emergency response and healthcare company Falck today announced a collaboration with Silicon Valley s Kitty Hawk, a company pioneering all-electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The companies will establish a joint innovation platform creating a framework for
Project Heaviside, Kitty s Hawk s latest high performance aircraft, to be used in emergency response operations.
Emergency response and healthcare company Falck announced a partnership with Silicon Valley-based Kitty Hawk, a pioneer of all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The partnership will explore applications for eVTOL in emergency response operations, making emergency healthcare more accessible and affordable. Here, Kitty Hawk s Heaviside eVTOL aircraft completes a test flight.