“Moya Aero Completes Wind Tunnel Trials”

Moya Aero, the Brazil-based eVTOL devel­op­er, recent­ly announced that dur­ing August its team was engaged in tri­alling aero­dy­nam­ic tests of a spe­cial­ly-built Moya air­craft at Latin Amer­i­ca’s largest wind tun­nel, locat­ed in São José dos Cam­pos, reports a press release.

The tri­als took place at the Insti­tute of Aero­nau­tics and Space (IAE) of the DCTA (Depart­ment of Aero­space Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy).

The release explains, “Over the course of four weeks in the wind tun­nel, Moy­a’s mod­el under­went more than 150 tests in var­i­ous con­fig­u­ra­tions, encom­pass­ing both ver­ti­cal and hor­i­zon­tal flight. Unlike tra­di­tion­al air­craft tests, where the angle of attack varies between 0 and 20 degrees, for a VTOL, the angle ranges from ‑10 to 90 degrees.”

It con­tin­ues, “The results were close­ly aligned with pri­or expec­ta­tions, indi­cat­ing that only min­i­mal adjust­ments are need­ed to reduce drag.”

After cel­e­brat­ing the results, the team are already prepar­ing for fur­ther real test­ing at SDA4 Air­field, where the Moya 256 has received the Exper­i­men­tal Flight Autho­ri­sa­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CAVE) to under­take longer flights.

This project has remained on sched­ule and with­in bud­get since its launch in 2022. The com­pa­ny antic­i­pates cer­ti­fi­ca­tion by 2026 with ser­vice expect­ed to begin at the end of that year. 

Alexan­dre Zaramela, CEO of Moya

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. Investors include Seed4Science, Hards and Tech­stars, while Helisul Drones, ProAero and Cer­ti­fi­ca Drones are part­ners.

The com­pa­ny also has impor­tant finan­cial sup­port from Brazil’s FINEP (Finan­ciado­ra de Estu­dos e Pro­je­tos), a  Brazil­ian gov­ern­ment organ­i­sa­tion that pro­motes eco­nom­ic and social devel­op­ment by fund­ing sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy and inno­va­tion projects in the coun­try’s uni­ver­si­ties and com­pa­nies. 

For more infor­ma­tion

moya-aero.com  

regina.cyrino@moya-aero.com 

(Top image: Moya team cel­e­brat­ing suc­cess­ful wind tun­nel tri­als)

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