Shanghai-based Autoflight completes maiden flight test of manned vehicle V1500M
The V1500M is powered by an all-electric system and has a maximum passenger capacity of 3-4 people and a range of up to 250 km.
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I take reuter report with a pinch of salt.
I take reuter report with a pinch of salt.
It is 100% accurate translation from Chinese or purposely omitted some words and added their own by reporter?Why, it quotes at least Yang Zhenmei, a Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) official.
Quite terrible that they need to redesign the whole plane and produced new prototype only after few years of the maiden flight of previous prototype. Especially, it has already go thru few years of testing only to realized some major structure problem. Plenty of years wasted.
That is what prototypes and flight testings are for. Flight testing will reveal whether the prototypes performed up to the expectations of the designer or end users.Quite terrible that they need to redesign the whole plane and produced new prototype only after few years of the maiden flight of previous prototype. Especially, it has already go thru few years of testing only to realized some major structure problem. Plenty of years wasted.
But I guess, this project is at the lowest priority which super computer or top glass wind tunnel are not available for correct accurate data.
Not until the extend of rebuild a new prototype and supercede old one. It means clearly a glaring massive design flaw which is quite appalling. But as I say, this is not a top tier project. Resources available is not always the best. Imagine such thing happen to Y-20 project after few prototype build and tested for years, only to realize major design flaw and need to restart again?That is what prototypes and flight testings are for. Flight testing will reveal whether the prototypes performed up to the expectations of the designer or end users.
Obviously the first prototype did not meet the expectation, thus a revision is needed so that improvement can be made.
Data from flight testing of first prototype will not be wasted, whatever feedback will be store in a database which will be used as reference in future projects.