Moya Aero’s Autonomous eVTOL Prototype “Completes 87 Successful Test Flights”

Brazil-based, Moya Aero, has announced it has already com­plet­ed 87 suc­cess­ful flights of its autonomous eVTOL air­craft since tri­als began last Decem­ber at the SDA4 Air­field on the out­skirts of São José dos Cam­pos-SP, reports a press release.

The test­ing cam­paign has sev­en phas­es, from ground tests to auto­mat­ic mode flights. Moya is now at the end of Phase 4 and mak­ing final adjust­ments to the air­craft’s ver­ti­cal flight capa­bil­i­ties. 

“The pilot con­trols the frontal and lat­er­al veloc­i­ty, and the tun­ing in this phase cor­re­sponds to the out­er loop, “ explains the release. “By the end of Phase 4, the air­craft will fly in posi­tion mode, with veloc­i­ty as input. Auto­mat­ic take­off, mis­sion, and auto-land­ing are pos­si­ble at this stage.”

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The com­pa­ny is com­mit­ted to con­tin­u­ing the tri­als through­out 2024:-

: Phase 5 involves the air­craft in ver­ti­cal mode, includ­ing take­off, flight to pre-defined points, return to home, and auto­mat­ic land­ing. 

: Phase 6, is the tran­si­tion to hor­i­zon­tal flight and repeat­ing the ver­ti­cal phase adjust­ments. 

: Phase 7 marks the com­ple­tion of the mis­sion, includ­ing ver­ti­cal take­off, tran­si­tion to hor­i­zon­tal flight, ver­ti­cal flight and land­ing.

The release con­tin­ues, “We are con­fi­dent our air­craft will rev­o­lu­tionise the indus­try and pro­vide a safe, effi­cient, and sus­tain­able mode of trans­porta­tion for all.”

Moya believes these exten­sive tri­als will lead to com­mer­cial ser­vice dur­ing 2026.

Back­ground

Found­ed in 2020, Moya Aero is a spin-off of ACS Avi­a­tion, a Brazil­ian aero­nau­ti­cal engi­neer­ing, air­craft research and devel­op­ment com­pa­ny locat­ed in São José dos Cam­pos. With more than 20 years expe­ri­ence behind the Moya team, it is the first high-capac­i­ty autonomous vehi­cle built in Latin Amer­i­ca.

Seed4Science, Hards and Tech­stars have invest­ed in Moya along­side the sup­port of FINEP in devel­op­ing the pro­to­type. Helisul Drones, ProAero, and Cer­ti­fi­ca Drones are part­ners.

For more infor­ma­tion

moyaaero.com 

(Images: Moya Aero)

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