Why settle for 2-day delivery, when Elroy Air’s Chaparral can deliver your packages the very say day? It’s touted as the world’s first end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo system capable of transporting up to 500-pounds of goods over a 300 mile range for commercial, humanitarian, and defense logistics. The Chaparral essentially eliminates the airport infrastructure required of piloted air cargo options available today.
The vehicle itself can be transported inside a 40’ shipping container or C-130 cargo aircraft, making it possible to quickly deploy Chaparral anywhere in the world. Packages are stored in aerodynamic modular cargo pods that can be pre-loaded by ground personnel and picked up by the aircraft before takeoff. This aerial cargo system has already garnered plenty of interest with just the pre-production vehicle, as the company has reportedly secured agreements for more than 500 aircraft from commercial, defense and humanitarian customers amounting to more than $1 billion in aircraft demand.
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We have designed an aircraft that behaves like a hybrid between a rough-and-ready helicopter and a battle-hardened bush plane, that can pick up cargo up anywhere with a 50 square foot landing area,” said the company.
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