Superior Air Mobility pioneer EHang (NASDAQ: EH) has introduced two important milestones within the journey in the direction of sort certification of the EH216-S passenger drone.
Ultimate Testing Full
EHang has now accomplished the ultimate flight checks 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 exhibit and confirm compliance with laws.
Starting from battery, atmosphere, materials, power, electronics, software program, knowledge 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 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 signify a world first within the superior air mobility trade. “We’ve made outstanding progress in our pursuit of long-term progress. Notably, we’re thrilled to announce that we now have efficiently accomplished all of the deliberate checks for EH216-S sort 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 kind 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 permitted 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 inside the similar airspace… making certain 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 businesses 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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