2026.07.18
Eyes on the large model
Turning toward the large model and the road to serial production in 2030.
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Newsroom
Updates from the Flyka program — engineering milestones, market signals and company news.
2026.07.08
The hours add up
Pre-production flight hours climb — redundancy holds up under real use.
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2026.06.09
Building the certification case
Assembling the traceable evidence a certification path is built from.
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2026.04.23
Into the flight-test campaign
A structured flight-test campaign begins on the pre-production aircraft.
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2026.03.17
Proving the cost story
Pre-production builds validate the bill of materials and the path to ~$16/flight-hour.
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2026.01.27
Standing up the pilot line
The pilot assembly line comes online — common parts, roughly 20x cheaper than aviation-grade.
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2025.12.02
Built to travel
Fold, ship and set up by one operator without tools — designed for the real world.
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2025.10.21
Design freeze for the pre-production model
The pre-production design is frozen — footprint, payload and flight cost all validated.
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2025.09.09
Reliability, measured
Tracking reliability with real numbers — component life, failure rates, redundancy saves.
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2025.07.22
Weather is a design requirement
Flying in wind and rougher conditions — gust rejection holds with margin to spare.
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2025.06.10
Efficient where it counts: cruise
Refined cruise-thrust scheduling stretches range at 110 km/h.
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2025.04.24
Chasing the 30-minute mark
Endurance testing pushes real-world flight time toward the 30-minute target.
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2025.03.18
Faster turnaround
A reworked charging system trims turnaround time without stressing the cells.
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2025.01.28
Carrying its weight
Payload flights toward the 165 kg design figure — the cluster spreads the load smoothly.
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2024.12.03
Growing the free-flight envelope
Longer, more ambitious untethered flights — the aircraft behaves as it did on the tether.
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2024.10.22
Untethered — Flyka flies free
The tether comes off — Flyka's full-scale prototype makes its first free, autonomous flight.
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2024.09.10
A solid link to the ground
A hardened, redundant ground link with graceful fallback for unmanned operation.
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2024.07.23
A wider envelope
The tethered flight envelope widens — faster maneuvers, translation, repositioning.
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2024.06.11
Failing on purpose, in the air
In-flight fault injection: units knocked offline mid-maneuver, and Flyka flies on unshaken.
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2024.04.25
Teaching Flyka to take off and land itself
Autonomous takeoff, hold, reposition and landing — drilled until every touchdown is gentle.
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2024.03.19
Closing the loop
The autonomy stack now holds position and altitude on its own — the aircraft starts to fly itself.
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2024.01.30
Redundant senses
Redundant IMUs with voting mean no single sensor can mislead the flight controller.
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2023.12.06
Steady as she hovers
Hover tuning — gust rejection and attitude hold — gives a calm, predictable platform.
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2023.10.24
First tethered hover of the full-scale aircraft
All 22 units lift the full-scale aircraft into its first controlled, tethered hover.
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2023.09.13
Fold, move, unfold
The folding mechanism takes Flyka from 5.4 m deployed to a 3.3 m footprint, repeatably.
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2023.07.25
Loading up the airframe
The full-scale airframe passes structural load testing beyond expected flight loads.
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2023.06.14
Listening to the aircraft
Per-unit real-time telemetry — temperature, current, RPM, sync — so drift is caught early.
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2023.04.27
Turning watts into range
Cruise-draw and thrust tuning lift projected range; the cluster runs cool and even.
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2023.03.21
Power electronics, rev by rev
Leaner, cooler regulator boards from common parts — now burn-in tested before install.
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2023.02.02
A denser battery, the same footprint
A revised battery pack lifts usable energy while staying inside the 740 A cluster limit.
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2022.12.08
One cluster, one nervous system
A self-healing control bus with no single point of failure — proven by pulling cables mid-test.
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2022.10.25
Distributed controller v3 — surviving the worst case
Fault-injection on the bench: kill six of 22 units and the controller holds attitude every time.
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2022.09.14
Sharing the work: current balancing across 22 units
New current-sharing logic keeps all 22 units balanced and within limits under peak thrust.
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2022.07.26
A quieter motor unit
A reworked ducted-fan unit trims noise and improves cooling without losing thrust.
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2022.06.15
Powering up the full cluster for the first time
All 22 independent motor units boot, report and hold sync on the bench.
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2022.04.28
Full-scale airframe takes shape
The full-scale Flyka f1 comes together — monocoque, both motor rings and the distributed harness.
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2022.03.17
A new batch of motors for Flyka is on its way!
The company is actively preparing to begin testing.
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2021.11.25
$1.5 trillion: Morgan Stanley forecasts the size of the VTOL market by 2040
Morgan Stanley forecasts that the flying-car market could reach $1.5 trillion by 2040.
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2021.05.13
Flying cars: what the transport of the future will look like. A podcast with Maxim Levoshin, head of Flyka
Maxim Levoshin joined the podcast "Coming Soon" as a guest.
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2021.01.21
A new company identity: spinning rotors in the logo restyling
Flyka enters the final stage of development and unveils its new brand logo.
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2020.12.01
Instrument panel development completed
Initial code testing was carried out following the DO-178 guidelines.
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2020.10.19
Are we ready for a changed world?
Flyka presents a virtual exhibit at the Open Innovations 2020 conference.
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2020.10.09
A section of the Flyka f1 prototype unveiled
The Flyka.aero team unveiled a section of the Flyka f1 prototype, an unmanned passenger multicopter.
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2020.09.01
Flyka to take part in a conference
Flyka will speak at HeliRussia 2020 and present a prototype of its flying vehicle.
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2020.05.14
Flyka advances to the Startup Village semifinals
In the energy-efficiency track, high tech energy & transport category!
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2020.04.27
An air taxi for the city
This year has seen a sharp surge of interest in flying cars and air taxis, and Flyka explains why its distributed multirotor architecture is built to win that market on safety and cost.
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2020.03.20
Full-scale frame is almost ready
It will let us test every system in real-world conditions, under a real load.
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2020.01.20
Debugging the distributed autopilot
While the controller is being debugged, the distributed autopilot is being tested on emulator boards.
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2019.11.27
Flyka v2 controller is ready
A round of bench testing and fine-tuning still lies ahead, yet the design is already close to final.
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2019.10.19
The third prototype has flown
We can now fine-tune a full control system with radar and machine vision in the air.
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2019.07.17
Flyka v2 electronic speed controller
It improves on the previous version with lower mass and higher efficiency, plus support for the distributed autopilot system.
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2019.06.02
We took part in Startup Village 2019
We showcased our flying-car prototypes, the engine and the control hardware.
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2019.05.25
We took part in the “Moscow Sky 2019” festival
Flyka stood alongside the manufacturers and developers of helicopter and aircraft technology.
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2019.05.01
The Flyka v5 prototype got overloaded
For complete happiness we now need a radar, a couple of lidars and three cameras.
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2018.10.18
The second Drozd engine is ready
The engine is more reliable now — we can't wait to get it onto the test bench :)
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2018.10.10
The copter prototype is printed, assembled and flashed
We are running the final tuning of throw rates, limits, the mixer and other parameters.
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2018.09.10
The key feature of power connectors
Würth Elektronik's REDCUBE PRESS-FIT power connectors aren't soldered — they're pressed into the board.
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2018.08.18
Designing the new engine
The new Drozd-2 engine incorporates every issue and improvement identified during testing of the first version.
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2018.07.31
We spent a long time on the autopilot
And at last everything works exactly as it should!
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2018.04.02
We've decided to build a 1:20 scale prototype
To fine-tune the automatic flight control system.
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2018.03.04
For the Drozd v1 motor
Development of the dual-channel electronic speed controller (ESC) is complete.
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2018.02.17
We continue debugging the autopilot
A “virus” embedded in the firmware shuts off randomly selected motors without the autopilot's knowledge.
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2018.02.12
Endurance test at 100% power for 40 minutes
Conducted as part of the Drozd v1 engine test program.
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2018.02.09
The Drozd v2 motor has passed its test with flying colours
Over the course of a month we ran test cycles and fine-tuned the software, sensors and propeller.
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2018.01.24
Refined the design
In line with the new structural elements and ergonomic requirements.
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2017.12.25
Ducted coaxial propeller test completed
We proved that even under these conditions, a ducted coaxial configuration delivers a gain in thrust and efficiency.
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2017.12.10
The engine has reached 117% of its rated power!
A successful test with a single propeller.
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2017.06.12
We designed and 3D-printed a composite duct
For testing ducted coaxial propellers.
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2017.06.10
We took part in Startup Village 2017!
The Flyka team took part in the Startup Village 2017 conference.
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2017.03.10
A beautiful and stylish design option
The propellers are protected by a single shared guard mesh.
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2016.10.18
Flyka calls for a highly specific flight-control system and autopilot
Nothing of the kind is made anywhere, neither in the hobby world nor in aviation.
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