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Left to right, John Vaughn (racing suspension and engine expert) and Sam Bousfield (Samson CEO and Switchblade designer) wait for test pilot Ron McElroy to taxi out, before jumping in their trucks...

The Samson Flight Test Crew has frequent briefings, which insure we are tightly coordinated and focused on the procedure and goal of the next set of tests. Here you can see test pilot Ron McElroy...

Samson's flight test program is designed to take several consecutive runs, each with its own parameters (speeds, flap settings, etc.). After each set of 3 runs, the test pilot brings her back to the...

With veteran test pilot Ron McElroy at the controls, the Switchblade flying sports car took to a local runway yesterday to do the next step in our flight test program. We built up speed with each...

We are back in flight testing with test pilot Ron McElroy at the helm. Samson has been very fortunate to have him as our flight test advisor since the early days of this adventure. This testing is...

We have a leading-arm front suspension. Yeah, bad joke. Well, one of our engineers working on Production Engineering was doing a deep dive on front suspension recently and found an issue with the...

With Reservation Holders in 56 countries, including all 50 U.S. States, the Switchblade is arguably the most popular flying car in history! Join the team - currently, you can Reserve with no...

Here is a video clip of our fastest acceleration run ever - an airspeed of 113 mph!! As mentioned in yesterday's post, the purpose of this phase of testing (with wings off) is to accelerate over a...