Elroy Air’s Kofi Asante talks about its autonomous VTOL, Chaparral, and how it can transform future air cargo deliveries

In this week’s pod­cast episode, we were delight­ed to wel­come Kofi Asante, Elroy Air’s Head of Strat­e­gy and Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, as our guest.

The com­pa­ny is cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing its autonomous VTOL air­craft, Chap­ar­ral, which is an end-to-end heavy car­go deliv­ery sys­tem that can car­ry pay­loads of up to 300lbs a dis­tance of about 300 miles.

Kofi talks to us in more detail about Chap­ar­ral and what impact he thinks it can have in the air logis­tics sec­tor. He also gives more insight into the chal­lenges that need to be solved in order for unmanned air­craft to be accept­ed in the urban air­space, and reacts to news ear­li­er this year that Chap­ar­ral won a Gold Award at the Indus­tri­al Design Awards.

You can lis­ten to the episode by click­ing on the Play but­ton below. It is also avail­able to lis­ten on Spo­ti­fy and Apple Pod­casts, by search­ing eVTOL Insights Pod­cast.