Maximum Entertainment funds Maximum Mobility.
Project Meridian
Trump Investment Accelerator Leadership
U.S. Department of Commerce
X1 Racing
Mac McAlpine
@realx1racing
mac@x1racing.com
The Trump Investment Accelerator — established by Executive Order 14255 — opened a window that has never existed before and will not exist after January 20, 2029.
It compresses a decade of interagency permitting and a decade of R&D into a single administration: FAA, DOT, the Department of War, EPA, and FCC coordinating in parallel, not sequence, under Commerce's authority to eliminate regulatory friction for any investment above $1 billion. The flying car has been two decades away for the last half-century. Every year the regulatory machinery runs in sequence instead of parallel is a year the flying car stays in the concept deck.
Project Maximum Boost is the only program on the table that closes the gap before the window closes.
Racing is the mechanism. Maximum Freedom is the Prize.
No new statute required. Three existing federal mechanisms form a complete on-ramp.
In force October 22, 2025. Driver's license as medical. Performance-based certification. Hybrid-electric propulsion admitted. Permanent federal regulation.
In force November 7, 2025. Enhanced presumption of commerciality. Solutions-based acquisition. A racing-derived eVTOL enters defense acquisition as a modification of an existing commercial solution. Department-level policy, durable across administrations.
The accelerant. Compresses fifty years of sequential permitting into the remaining term. Every month between now and 1/20/2029 is a month of compressed approvals that does not come back. Two mechanisms are permanent. This one is the window — open now, closing on a fixed date.
The FAA's barrier to SI (Super Intelligence) co-piloted eVTOL is not doctrinal — MOSAIC is performance-based by design. The barrier is evidentiary. Regulators need a failure-mode corpus dense enough, public enough, and independently verifiable enough to certify an SI co-pilot's authority envelope.
That corpus does not exist. Every existing eVTOL developer flies in restricted airspace. The data stays locked in corporate rooms.
X1 Racing produces it by design.
Up to 17 teams field up to 50 instrumented aircraft: side-by-side two-seat, SI-co-piloted hybrid-electric flying cars at 200+ mph and 1,500 hp continuous — fully unmanned on the course. Remote pilots drawn from the X1 Racing Game. No age limits. Game skill is the filter. Danger Zones, in which SI authority is deliberately reduced, capture failure modes that civil type-certification does not generate.
The entertainment is the monetized product. Innovation and regulatory certification evidence are the free byproducts.
The destination is a driver's license, a certified airframe, a certified SI co-pilot, and a certified hyper-efficient hybrid-electric engine — and the sky. Not a commercial pilot certificate. Not 1,500 hours. Not a Part 135 operator. The same threshold that lets a 16-year-old drive a car should let an adult fly when the vehicle itself is certified safe.
MOSAIC already established the driver's-license-as-medical standard for sport pilots. Extending its performance-based framework to SI-co-piloted eVTOL is an evidence problem, not a doctrinal one. Project Maximum Boost solves it at racing speed, in public, while the Accelerator compresses the permitting that would otherwise take fifty years.
Long-term: any SI-assessed surface meeting published vertiport safety criteria operates as a vertiport by default — on the same logic that any lawfully available parking space operates as a parking space today. A driver's license, a certified airframe, and the surface the SI says is safe. That is Maximum Freedom.
$2.2 billion in upfront catalytic investment unlocks $8.8 billion in federal match, released dollar-for-dollar against verified corporate racing sponsorship. Total federal commitment: $11 billion. Taxpayer exposure is capped at the $2.2 billion upfront — no match obligates without verified private commitment. The federal government takes a 10% non-voting equity stake in X1 Racing alongside its catalytic investment.
Deployed at closing for series stand-up, hybrid powertrain and airframe development, test infrastructure, and the certification campaign.
Released dollar-for-dollar against verified corporate sponsorship. No match obligates without verified private commitment.
Automotive and aerospace OEMs co-fund powertrain R&D alongside federal investment.
Title, team, and broadcast sponsors secured by the series.
Total: $11B federal + $8.8B private = $19.8B cumulative investment.
All funds subject to annual audit and milestone-tranche disbursement.
The civil certification evidence the FAA has never had, generated at racing speed in public. Certified airframe, SI Co-Pilot and power plant before 1/20/2029. The $1 trillion global AAM market Morgan Stanley projects by 2040 — currently locked behind regulatory gridlock — with the goal to open the skies to every American with a driver's license.
What makes a great engine for a flying car also makes a great generator for the power grid. Project MAXIMUM BOOST uses racing's rapid, competitive iteration to build compact, efficient, reliable power plants that serve both.
Instead of squeezing more out of century-old engine designs, we're advancing proven technology until small generators can rival our most efficient gas turbine plants on efficiency and beat them on cost. Making power close to where it's used is more resilient and more affordable. A compact generator at the grid edge can replace peaker plants without new transmission lines or decade-long permitting. It runs on natural gas for stationary power, and it's multi-fuel without new hardware.
The same idea works on the road. When a truck makes its own power onboard as efficiently as the average grid charger delivers it, freight costs less, the grid carries less load, and our fuel goes further. No mandate required: the economics drive adoption.
A racing-derived eVTOL enters DoW acquisition under the Warfighting Acquisition System's commercial-solutions pathway on day one. Contested-edge ISR, small-unit resupply, medical evacuation. At a fully-loaded cost of $400/gallon delivered to forward operating bases, a 40–50% fuel reduction is a national security asset — funded through the entertainment economy, not a bespoke defense procurement.
The race data doesn't stay on the course. Every season of competition produces a real-world training corpus for autonomous systems — edge cases, failure modes, and recovery behaviors generated under adversarial pressure that no simulation program has ever been allowed to replicate. The X1 Racing Game serves as a live digital twin: operators train on it, SI systems learn from it, and defense applications inherit the results. Autonomous driving, autonomous flight, and autonomous logistics all draw from the same data pipeline that the racing series generates for free.
Up to 17 teams field up to 50 instrumented aircraft, competing on airframe, free-piston generator, and hybrid-electric powertrain, and producing the telemetry corpus civil regulators have never had.
Named for the first aircraft to break the sound barrier. Awarded to the team that completes the championship course, including its Danger Zones, with the best combined performance over a year of competition.
The X1 Racing Game is the skill filter. Top performers earn live seats. The remote control interface in competition is the same gaming interface that qualifies operators from anywhere in the world.
The most dangerous-sounding motorsport is structurally the safest. Fully unmanned racing eliminates the limit on how far teams can push the envelope. Danger Zones deliver the collisions fans can't look away from — without a pilot aboard.
Aviation capability transferred into American automotive OEMs, plus supplier growth and trickle-down employment. U.S. leadership in autonomous aviation, delivered through the entertainment economy.
Series stand-up. Inaugural unmanned season with Danger Zones operational from the opening event. First integrated failure-mode telemetry corpus. MOSAIC category-expansion petition filed. WAS engagement active. Investment Accelerator coordination live.
Inaugural X1 Cup. Full Danger Zone taxonomy operational. MOSAIC category expansion secured. Dual-use defense variant enters limited fielding under WAS commercial-solutions pathway. Championship-level FPLG efficiency development underway.
Certified eVTOL technology delivered to industry and consumers by 1/20/2029. SI co-pilot safety case validated at fleet scale. Federal match continues against verified private sponsorship to keep the technology from stalling.
Department of the Air Force 250 kW pilot at 46%, built for fuel flexibility. Maximum Boost drives the same architecture to a 60% program initial target and a 67% design point.
The regulatory framework is already in force. The evidentiary gap is what Maximum Boost closes.
Enhanced presumption of commerciality; solutions-based acquisition. The defense on-ramp is already open.
The Investment Accelerator coordinates interagency review for investments above $1 billion. The window closes January 20, 2029.
$2.2 billion to start the clock. $8.8 billion in federal match against $8.8 billion in verified private sponsorship. A 10% non-voting equity stake for the federal government in X1 Racing.
The most capital-efficient civil aviation program the United States has funded since Apollo — civil certification baseline, dual-use defense variant, national powertrain architecture, SI co-pilot standard, and the foundation for a driver's-license vertiport standard, in one integrated program requiring no new statute.
The Accelerator's clock runs out 1/20/2029. So does the window to unlock the $1 trillion global AAM market Morgan Stanley projects by 2040 before Chinese and European programs lock the regulatory and supply-chain ground.
Racing is the mechanism. Maximum Freedom is the Prize.
We request a meeting with Project Meridian and Investment Accelerator leadership.
President Trump envisions true personal air mobility: “vertical takeoff and landing vehicles for families and individuals,” with a commitment to “ensure that America, not China, leads this revolution in air mobility.” Project MAXIMUM BOOST is the fastest, most cost-efficient path to make that vision real before the Trump Investment Accelerator window closes.
In this video, Palmer Luckey makes the case for American reindustrialization. Project MAXIMUM BOOST answers that call through racing's Rapid Parallel Competitive Iteration. Instead of one company refining one aircraft over a decade, many teams work the same problem at once, testing competing airframes, SI co-pilots, and powertrains side by side every race weekend. It's the fastest development path there is, and every lap, failure, and fix feeds the data and feedback loop that certification needs. That is how motorsport made passenger cars safer, faster, and more reliable, and it's how Project MAXIMUM BOOST compresses AAM certification to January 2029.