Akihabara News (Tokyo) – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will start collaborating with SkyDrive to boost research on the aerodynamic characteristics for flying cars, or eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing).
SkyDrive, a Japan-based startup that has been focused on developing flying cars, will utilize that partnership with JAXA in order to test its flying vehicles.
JAXA maintains the nation’s largest wind tunnel test facility that a multitude of flying vehicles, such as airplanes and helicopters, use to test aerodynamics and performance. SkyDrive has been granted access to begin testing their developments at this facility as well.
The aim of this collaboration is to assist SkyDrive to improve the safety and efficiency of its flying cars. The company believes that this collaboration will accelerate the realization of an air mobility society.
SkyDrive Chief Technology Officer Nobuo Kishi states that “by testing this equipment in this manner, I feel that the ‘flying car’ developed by SkyDrive is one step closer to becoming a safe, secure, and reliable aircraft. The data acquired with the cooperation of JAXA will be used for the design and development of rotors in order to realize the kinds of aircraft specifications required by society.”
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