EHang recently completed the flight demonstration of dual-seat AAV EH216 with the cooperation and support of MASC.
27 December 2021: EHang recently secured its first order for VT-30, a long-range electric passenger-grade autonomous aerial vehicle. EHang will work with local partners, such as the Okayama Kurashiki Mizushima Aero & Space Industry Cluster Study Group (MASC), to further explore use cases with its EH216 and VT-30 and develop the urban air mobility network in Japan.
EHang recently completed the flight demonstration of dual-seat AAV EH216 with the cooperation and support of MASC. The flight tests took place in June 2021 at Fukushima and Okayama. This further explored the application and practice of AAV solutions in use cases such as cross-island travel, emergency rescue and aerial logistics.
Mr.Narisawa Koichi, the Counselor of Civil Aviation Bureau at Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (“MLIT”) of Japan said, “The AAVs have always been expected to be used in the scenarios of travel on outlying islands and sparsely populated areas, life rescue and material support in disasters. I also personally feel the efforts made by enterprises in various industries like EHang to achieve this goal. The MLIT of Japan will formulate and publish new flight test guidelines to support the experimental tests of enterprises, such as EHang.”
Under the witness of many guests and media, the EH216 successfully completed a flight demonstration for emergency rescue scenarios in the extreme weather with strong winds up to 27.5m/s at the Fukushima Robot Test Field (RTF). In 2019, Public-Private Council for Air Transportation Revolution in Japan positioned the Fukushima RTF as a fixed site for test flights, preparing for the goal of achieving commercial applications of eVTOLs in 2023.
