Sarla Aviation has announced the start of ground testing for its half-scale electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) demonstrator, SYLLA SYL-X1, at the company’s Bengaluru test facility.
“With a 7.5-meter wingspan, SYL-X1 represents the largest and most advanced private eVTOL demonstrator of its kind currently under development in India,” said the company in a press release. “Achieved in approximately nine months of development and at a fraction of the capital typically required for comparable global programs, the milestone marks a level of engineering scale, execution speed, and systems maturity not previously demonstrated by a private aerospace company in the country.
“With ground testing now underway, Sarla Aviation’s air taxi program enters its core validation phase, moving decisively beyond digital concepts and laboratory-scale experimentation into real aircraft-scale testing. The current demonstrator is a functional sub-scale aircraft, purpose-built to validate structural behavior, propulsion integration, and system-level safety architecture at meaningful scale. Unlike academic prototypes or small RC-scale platforms, SYL-X1 is designed with certification intent from the outset, forming a direct bridge toward Sarla Aviation’s 15-meter wingspan full-scale aircraft.”
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