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Moya Prepares To Flight Test Technology Demonstrator for Multirole Autonomous eVTOL Aircraft
The Brazilian start-up is targeting applications including crop spraying and cargo deliveries for its all-electric aircraft, which will have a payload of 200 kilograms (440 pounds) and a range of 110 kilometers (70 miles).
Moya Aero's engineering team is preparing to fly an eVTOL technology demonstrator.
Moya Aero's engineering team is preparing to fly an eVTOL technology demonstrator. (Image: Moya Aero)

Moya Aero is preparing to start test flights with a 70 percent scale prototype of its planned autonomous eVTOL aircraft. The Brazilian start-up this week reported that the first flight will take place during the southern hemisphere's spring season, which starts in late September, at an airfield called Fazenda Maristela near São José dos Campos.

Having earned a $2 million grant earlier this year from FINEP, a Brazilian government organization that promotes science, technology, and innovation, the Moya team has now almost completed manufacturing the technology demonstrator, which will have a 5.5-meter (18-foot) wingspan. It expects early use cases for the unnamed aircraft to include functions such as crop spraying and cargo deliveries in large countries like Brazil.

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