Superior Air Mobility pioneer EHang (NASDAQ: EH) has introduced two important milestones within the journey in direction of sort certification of the EH216-S passenger drone.
Remaining Testing Full
EHang has now accomplished the ultimate flight exams required within the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) sort certification (TC) course of for the EH216-S. The method has taken 31 months – however EHang says that they count on to obtain sort certification quickly, having completed the final stage of the analysis with flights to reveal and confirm compliance with laws.
Starting from battery, atmosphere, materials, power, electronics, software program, information hyperlink to floor management station, we now have sufficiently proved that EH216-S meets the protection requirements and airworthiness necessities by the CAAC, by scientific approaches, multi-angle demonstrations, rigorous testing, and steady optimizations.
As an progressive product for city air mobility, EH216-S stick to 3 elementary technological ideas, that are full redundancy, autonomous flying, and cluster administration.
When EHang receives CAAC TC, the certification will symbolize a world first within the superior air mobility business. “We’ve made exceptional progress in our pursuit of long-term development. Notably, we’re thrilled to announce that we now have efficiently accomplished all of the deliberate exams for EH216-S sort certification,” mentioned Huazhi Hu, Founder, Chairman and CEO of EHang. This achievement marks a big unprecedented milestone within the world rising eVTOL business, underscoring our unwavering dedication and pioneering benefits. Moreover, this units the stage for us to safe the sort certificates quickly and proceed with our endeavors to provoke business operations.”
The Cloud System Enabling Industrial Flights
EHang Unmanned Plane Cloud System (UACS) has additionally been authorized by the CAAC for trial operations. EHang UACS is designed as an airspace administration software and operations administration software “enabling cluster administration of a number of aircrafts throughout the identical airspace… guaranteeing safer and extra dependable operations.”
“…the approval of the UACS trial operations serves as a big safeguard for large-scale operational security and administration,” says the announcement.
EHang has performed over 9,300 profitable low-altitude “tourism flight trials” in 18 cities in China. These flights have served as a testing floor for the UACS digital platform.
As EHang has moved forwards on TC, Chinese language authorities businesses have moved to “assist the event of the low-altitude financial system, which creates a broad area for the implementation and operation of UAM purposes,” the announcement says.
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