Cynthia simply reported yesterday on a few eVTOL (electrical vertical takeoff and touchdown) plane milestones. We’ve obtained two extra to report on as effectively — one in China and one within the USA. I’ll begin with the story from China.
Business EHang Flights Now Authorised in China!
EHang & GZDG Vertiport. Picture courtesy of EHang
An EHang eVTOL plane, the EH216-S, has simply been authorised for business flights by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). “This demonstrates that the EH216-S’s mannequin design absolutely complies with CAAC’s security requirements and airworthiness necessities, and that the EH216-S is certified for conducting passenger-carrying UAV business operations,” the corporate writes.
“Since CAAC formally accepted EHang’s EH216-S TC software in January 2021, the EHang workforce labored carefully with CAAC and its knowledgeable workforce in the direction of validating and verifying the plane’s revolutionary cutting-edge applied sciences. After greater than 1,000 days and nights of persistent efforts, they overcame every kind of difficulties and challenges to efficiently full all kind certification aims, proving that EHang is absolutely able to independently designing, growing, and manufacturing mature unmanned eVTOL merchandise.”
That is the primary such approval wherever on the planet.
And the EH216-S isn’t solely electrical — it’s additionally autonomous.
Clearly, EHang is blazing a path on this trade. It needed to comply not solely with conventional plane guidelines and laws, but additionally had to assist kind new ones because of the revolutionary nature of the plane. “The EH216-S stands as a pioneering technological and product innovation with vital variations from standard plane in key areas together with technical structure, configuration, efficiency, performance, operational mode and flight surroundings. For the EH216-S kind certification, CAAC and EHang upheld standard century-old aviation ideas alongside an innovation-centric method, which concerned formulating particular certification foundation and technique of compliance tailor-made to the EH216-S’s distinctive technical options, to conduct the kind certification work.”
Listed here are another key details and figures concerning the EH216-S:
- Can carry two passengers 20 miles
- 60 mph cruising velocity
- 81 mph full-tilt velocity
- 17 kWh battery
- 16 propellers powered by 16 totally different electrical motors.
Notably, earlier this yr, in February, the EH216 accomplished its first autonomous, passenger-carrying flight demonstration in Japan. Keep tuned to search out out when additionally it is authorised for business flights in Japan!
Is EHang now the worldwide chief within the burgeoning eVTOL trade?
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