Elroy Air Flies Chaparral Uncrewed Cargo eVTOL

Elroy’s hybrid-electric Chaparral C1 made its first hover flight at Byron Airport in California on Nov. 12.

Credit: Elroy Air
Elroy Air has conducted the first flight of its Chaparral C1 uncrewed cargo aircraft, described by the U.S. startup as the first turbogenerator hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle to fly. The first Chaparral C1 made a 57-sec. hover flight to around 25. ft. altitude on Nov...

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