Elroy’s Chaparral is a hybrid-electric, VTOL cargo aircraft designed for runway-independent commercial and military logistics missions at a lower operating cost than helicopters. Potential use cases include middle-mile cargo delivery, military resupply, disaster response, and humanitarian aid.

Chaparral’s hybrid-electric powertrain feeds eight vertical and four forward propellers, with a turbogenerator that recharges its batteries during flight. It operated fully uncrewed both in the air and on the ground, capable of autonomously picking up and depositing payloads stored in Elroy’s array of cargo pods.

This seems like it has a lot of potential for disaster response!