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Lishui-built helicopter enters China's civil aviation market
The sky's the limit with the VA115 coaxial twin-rotor helicopter, being produced in Lishui. It's just got a CAAC certificate, allowing it to be sold. [Photo/lsnews.com.cn]
Sales of the VA115 coaxial twin-rotor helicopter being produced by RS Helikopter GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of AviComms Technologies Co Ltd – based in Lishui city in East China's Zhejiang province – are soon expected to take off.
That's after the Civil Aviation Administration of China, or CAAC, recently issued a certificate for the eye-catching model's entry into the domestic civil aviation market.
The VA115 is a single-seat manned helicopter with an empty weight of about 139 kilograms and a maximum takeoff weight of 260 kg, including an effective payload of 121 kg. The maximum airspeed is 140 kilometers per hour and the maximum range is 220 km.
The VA115 has adopted a German-patented coaxial twin-rotor system design, in which two identical rotors are mounted one on top of the other on the same rotor shaft. During flight, the two rotors rotate in opposite directions so that their opposite torque offsets each other. This allows the helicopter to maintain stability in the air.
According to AviComms executives, the VA115 is suitable for air patrols, inspections, flight training and air sports. Mass production of the model is expected to begin in Lishui in June and the price will be around 1.2 million yuan ($183,054).
The company also equipped the VA115 with a corresponding ground training simulator, which allows trainees to hover or fly in any direction, within safety limits, while a movable chassis with wheels enables trainees to learn helicopter flying more realistically.
Exploring disaster situations, delivering supplies, patrolling farmland, spraying pesticides, going on aerospace, connecting to 5G, crossing mountain roads, delivering express deliveries... low-altitude economy is expanding people's life horizons in a diversified way. In recent years, Zhejiang Lishui Economic Development Zone has successively attracted Zhejiang Rongqi Technology Co., Ltd., Hangxun Information Technology Co., Ltd., etc., focusing on building a low-altitude economic industrial chain and committed to "flying" out a new economic growth pole.
"We have set up the first manufacturing center for our coaxial twin-rotor helicopter business in Lishui. We want to make the Lishui base a benchmark for advanced manufacturing. It is our goal to have more aircraft printed with 'Made in Lishui' and 'fly' to the world." At the Hangxun Information (Lishui) Aviation Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Base, relevant persons in charge were full of expectations when talking about the development plan.
Hangxun focuses on the research, development, production, sales and application of aviation communications, navigation, surveillance equipment, and VA series coaxial twin-rotor helicopters, and owns more than 90 intellectual property rights. Guided by customer needs, Hangxun successfully received an order of 10 million yuan this year. Focusing on the future market, Hangxun has opened up drone business, established a general aviation company, and jointly established the Low-altitude Economic Air Network Innovation Institute with the Civil Aviation University of China, and cooperated with China Mobile to develop the 5G-ATG Air Network project... Grasp the new achievements of low-altitude applications, fully tap the needs of its own scenarios, and activate the low-altitude ecological development momentum of the Economic Development Zone.
Recently, the Chemical Park in the Economic and Technological Development Zone held a fire emergency drill for hazardous chemical leaks. As a pioneer in rescue technology, Rongqi Technology was invited to participate in the drill and demonstrated the remote control and automated delivery device for heavy-duty fire extinguishing bombs, achieving efficient firefighting operations at complex fire scenes.
Rongqi Technology is an industrial drone company with low-altitude digital intelligence as its core. It is committed to providing customers with intelligent, platform-based, and tool-based low-altitude digital intelligence system applications. Its products are widely used in emergency firefighting, ecological forestry and grassland, transportation and water conservancy, border inspection and other fields. Some time ago, when Qingyuan County encountered the heaviest rainfall in history since meteorological data was available, Rongqi Technology also fully demonstrated the company's "superpowers" in the field of emergency rescue. UAVs help rescue teams quickly understand the disaster situation through high-altitude reconnaissance and real-time transmission functions. At the same time, they also undertake the important task of material delivery and play an important role in disaster relief work.
"The development space of low-altitude economy is broad and the prospects are promising. This year's sales are expected to reach 60 million yuan." A relevant person in charge of Rongqi Technology said that in the future, the development focus will be placed on overseas market development, swarm operations, and the development of low-altitude digital integrated compatible platform systems for drones to help the development of Lishui's low-altitude economy. (Zhang Lin/Lishui Economic and Technological Development Zone/Photo)
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