Superior Air Mobility pioneer EHang (NASDAQ: EH) has introduced two vital milestones within the journey in the direction of kind 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) kind certification (TC) course of for the EH216-S. The method has taken 31 months – however EHang says that they anticipate to obtain kind certification quickly, having completed the final stage of the analysis with flights to reveal and confirm compliance with rules.
Starting from battery, surroundings, materials, power, electronics, software program, information hyperlink to floor management station, we’ve sufficiently proved that EH216-S meets the security requirements and airworthiness necessities by the CAAC, by means of scientific approaches, multi-angle demonstrations, rigorous testing, and steady optimizations.
As an revolutionary product for city air mobility, EH216-S stick to 3 elementary technological rules, that are full redundancy, autonomous flying, and cluster administration.
When EHang receives CAAC TC, the certification will symbolize a worldwide first within the superior air mobility trade. “We’ve made outstanding progress in our pursuit of long-term development. Notably, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve efficiently accomplished all of the deliberate exams for EH216-S kind certification,” stated Huazhi Hu, Founder, Chairman and CEO of EHang. This achievement marks a major unprecedented milestone within the world rising eVTOL trade, 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 industrial operations.”
The Cloud System Enabling Business 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 instrument and operations administration instrument “enabling cluster administration of a number of aircrafts throughout the similar airspace… guaranteeing safer and extra dependable operations.”
“…the approval of the UACS trial operations serves as a major safeguard for large-scale operational security and administration,” says the announcement.
EHang has carried out 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 companies have moved to “assist the event of the low-altitude financial system, which creates a broad house for the implementation and operation of UAM purposes,” the announcement says.
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