MultiGP Drone Racing League

Breaking news: FAC Technology now does FPV (first person view) drones! We adapted the technology behind our Composites UK Innovation award winning composite aerospace pallet along with that in our adhesives for satellites and launch vehicles to come up with Deep Air Carbon www.deepaircarbon.com. But is Deep Air Carbon, in fact, any good for drones? Well, the market leader in racing drones is an American company called Five33 with 43% of the market share: https://lnkd.in/duumPRyh. One of the co-founders for Five33, Evan Turner (aka ‘HeadsupFPV’) is a three-time MultiGP World Champion, two-time Drone Racing League World Champion and US Air Force Team Captain in the DRL series; he knows FPV drones! Five33 evaluated our materials, and we then optimised them and the arm designs for their new drone with their feedback and by drawing on our expertise in the mechanics of composite materials. How good are these new racing drones? The first is the ‘Ludicrous’ and it won the first Championship event it’s ever been entered in at the MultiGP Drone Racing League Open today. The World Cup race is scheduled for this Saturday; fingers crossed for good weather and Team Five33! Guido Blee is talking about how we went from Aerospace and Defence to the MultiGP championships in less than a year this Monday at the joint ADSgroup and CompositesUK Materials for Advanced Air Mobility conference so you can ask him there. If you’re interested in drones but can’t make that event then feel free to get in contact. FYI The existing production capacity we have would yield Deep Air Carbon parts for about half a million FPV drones a year. NB Deep Air Carbon was designed to fill a gap between monolithic composite and composite sandwich panels. The composite core can be tailored to have a compressive yield strength of over 100MPa; this is not another structural foam! If you’re using monolithic composite panels between 5mm and 10mm thick then we can potentially strip out at least 40% of your part’s weight.