Elroy’s Chaparral C1 Achieves First Transition Flight
Company’s middle-mile cargo drone successfully transitions from vertical to wingborne forward flight.
Company’s middle-mile cargo drone successfully transitions from vertical to wingborne forward flight.
Flight testing of Elroy’s Chaparral, a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (hVTOL) design, is scheduled to begin in July.
The partners are modifying Pyka’s flagship Pelican Cargo aircraft, an uncrewed, fully electric drone, for use by DOD customers.
The company says its 2024 Cento is the first large, self-flying, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) cargo drone to receive the consent.
The company calls the aircraft a turbogenerator-hyrbid electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft—hVTOL, for short—and claims it’s the first of its kind to fly.
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