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Technology 20:01, 10-Oct-2019
China's new research aircraft for geological survey put into use
China on Wednesday announced it is officially putting its new comprehensive research aircraft into operations to carry out geophysical survey and remote sensing missions.
China Geological Survey, under the nation's Ministry of Natural Resources, made the announcement at the ongoing China Mining Conference and Exhibition 2019 in north China's Tianjin Municipality.
According to experts from the institution's research center, China Aero Geophysical Survey and Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), the research aircraft, called "Hangkong Dizhi No. 1", can fly a distance of 4,000 kilometers at a speed of 280-500 kilometers per hour, at altitudes ranging from 200 to 10,000 meters.
It means the aircraft, the largest of its kind in the world, is able to conduct all-terrain geological surveys both on land and sea.
"The 4,000-kilometer voyage indicates that one sortie of the aircraft can cover an area like the city of Shenzhen (about 2,000 km) with precision of 1:50,000. And with a precision of 1:100,000, a sortie can survey a doubled area. Therefore the plan can realize the land survey of our country's 9.6 million square kilometers of land territory and the marine survey over three million square kilometers of blue territory, or in other words, the full coverage survey of both land and sea," said Chen Bin, deputy chief engineer of the AGRS.
The research plane has excellent geological survey capabilities as it is highly integrated with multiple aero geophysical surveys and remote sensing devices.
"The aircraft can carry out flight for aero geophysical survey, remote sensing, and is able to conduct the stereo survey of both surface and groundwater world. We have overcome the interferences happened among a variety of signals, especially those formed during parameter modification. It is the only one in the world that has realized the four parameter modification of aero geophysical survey and remote sensing on one plane," explained Chen.
The AGRS also said that since the research plane entered trial operation at the beginning of the month, it has carried out multiple aero geophysical surveys on oil and gas resources in China's Qinghai-Tibet region and South China Sea areas.
(Source: CCTV PLUS)
China's new geological survey aircraft goes into use
China announced it is putting its new comprehensive geophysical survey and remote sensing aircraft, Hangkong Dizhi No.1, into operation, China Geological Survey announced on Wednesday. The aircraft, the largest of its kind in the world, is able to conduct all-terrain geological surveys both on land and sea.
China's new research aircraft for geological survey put into use
China on Wednesday announced it is officially putting its new comprehensive research aircraft into operations to carry out geophysical survey and remote sensing missions.
China Geological Survey, under the nation's Ministry of Natural Resources, made the announcement at the ongoing China Mining Conference and Exhibition 2019 in north China's Tianjin Municipality.
According to experts from the institution's research center, China Aero Geophysical Survey and Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), the research aircraft, called "Hangkong Dizhi No. 1", can fly a distance of 4,000 kilometers at a speed of 280-500 kilometers per hour, at altitudes ranging from 200 to 10,000 meters.
It means the aircraft, the largest of its kind in the world, is able to conduct all-terrain geological surveys both on land and sea.
"The 4,000-kilometer voyage indicates that one sortie of the aircraft can cover an area like the city of Shenzhen (about 2,000 km) with precision of 1:50,000. And with a precision of 1:100,000, a sortie can survey a doubled area. Therefore the plan can realize the land survey of our country's 9.6 million square kilometers of land territory and the marine survey over three million square kilometers of blue territory, or in other words, the full coverage survey of both land and sea," said Chen Bin, deputy chief engineer of the AGRS.
The research plane has excellent geological survey capabilities as it is highly integrated with multiple aero geophysical surveys and remote sensing devices.
"The aircraft can carry out flight for aero geophysical survey, remote sensing, and is able to conduct the stereo survey of both surface and groundwater world. We have overcome the interferences happened among a variety of signals, especially those formed during parameter modification. It is the only one in the world that has realized the four parameter modification of aero geophysical survey and remote sensing on one plane," explained Chen.
The AGRS also said that since the research plane entered trial operation at the beginning of the month, it has carried out multiple aero geophysical surveys on oil and gas resources in China's Qinghai-Tibet region and South China Sea areas.
(Source: CCTV PLUS)
China's new geological survey aircraft goes into use
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I actually found a report about this toy though not much info is added.
China launches bold 'Super Great White Shark' UFO-like craft in huge military development
CHINA revealed the latest addition to its military arsenal on Thursday, in the form of the “Super Great White Shark” (SGWS).
By JOHN VARGA
PUBLISHED: 03:54, Fri, Oct 11, 2019 | UPDATED: 22:45, Fri, Oct 11, 2019
This new piece of military hardware is, in fact, a circular helicopter. Its futuristic design makes it look lime a UFO and would not be out of place in a Hollywood sci-fi film. The prototype was on display at the fifth China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin, on Thursday.
At the display, a placard of the craft said: "The Super Great White Shark armed helicopter is a composite wing-body fusion high-speed helicopter configuration designed for the future digital information battlefield.
"In the initial stage of its design, it refers to the international excellent and mature helicopter design technologies, such as AH-64 Apache, CH-53 Sea Stallion, and Russian Ka-52, Mi-26.
"While absorbing their respective advantages, it adopts the internationally popular wing-body fusion (BWB) blended wing body design and the former.
"A new type of high-speed helicopter with a conceptual design of propeller blades has been successfully applied in helicopter design."
President Xi (Image: GETTY•IG)
"Super Great White Shark" (Image: STAR)
As stated, the design apparently draws on Russian and American technologies, with a major innovation being the use of propeller instead of rotary blades.
The “spacecraft” can be piloted by two people and will be equipped with missiles.
If the SGWS ever succeeds in lifting off, then the Chinese will make aviation history.
No other country has ever succeeded in developing and perfecting the technology.
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“Super Great White Shark” (Image: Star)
The US airforce experimented extensively in the 1950s and 1960s with new types of vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
This involved circular flying platforms and rotorcraft with large central lift fans and more complex flying saucer-like designs.
The model that came closest to succeeding was the Avro Canada or VZ-9 Avrocar.
This ingenious design used three centrally mounted jet engines to blow air through vents all around its circular edge to create lift.
Moller 200G (Image: GETTY)
VZ-9 Avrocar (Image: GETTY)
These vents could then be angled to provide forward thrust.
An additional central lift fan gave the craft the ability to take off and land vertically.
Unfortunately, the designers were never able to overcome thrust and stability issues, leading to the project being abandoned in 1961.
However flying saucer concepts have continued to fire the imagination of designers all over the world.
This has led to a steady stream of innovative designs, with a most notable one being the Moller M200G Volantor.
Conceived by the designer Paul Moller, the M200G was supposed to be a flying saucer for civilian use.
It received a fair amount of media attention at the time in the early 2000s, which led to more refined models, but alas no concrete sales.
In a further interesting development, Romanian engineers have built a subscale model of a circular helicopter, which they have called the All-Directional Flying Object.
The UFO-like craft is not the only new military technology China has been developing, as it seeks to vamp up its military capabilities.
Researchers in eastern China say they have developed an airborne laser device that can detect underwater objects at unprecedented depths.
This might one day be used to track submarines.
The team from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics said the device could pick up objects more than 160 metres (525 feet) beneath the sea, twice as deep as devices used today.
They added: “It is the first time to have reached that depth with potential for further improvement."
China launches bold 'Super Great White Shark' UFO-like craft in huge military development
CHINA revealed the latest addition to its military arsenal on Thursday, in the form of the “Super Great White Shark” (SGWS).
By JOHN VARGA
PUBLISHED: 03:54, Fri, Oct 11, 2019 | UPDATED: 22:45, Fri, Oct 11, 2019
This new piece of military hardware is, in fact, a circular helicopter. Its futuristic design makes it look lime a UFO and would not be out of place in a Hollywood sci-fi film. The prototype was on display at the fifth China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin, on Thursday.
At the display, a placard of the craft said: "The Super Great White Shark armed helicopter is a composite wing-body fusion high-speed helicopter configuration designed for the future digital information battlefield.
"In the initial stage of its design, it refers to the international excellent and mature helicopter design technologies, such as AH-64 Apache, CH-53 Sea Stallion, and Russian Ka-52, Mi-26.
"While absorbing their respective advantages, it adopts the internationally popular wing-body fusion (BWB) blended wing body design and the former.
"A new type of high-speed helicopter with a conceptual design of propeller blades has been successfully applied in helicopter design."
President Xi (Image: GETTY•IG)
"Super Great White Shark" (Image: STAR)
As stated, the design apparently draws on Russian and American technologies, with a major innovation being the use of propeller instead of rotary blades.
The “spacecraft” can be piloted by two people and will be equipped with missiles.
If the SGWS ever succeeds in lifting off, then the Chinese will make aviation history.
No other country has ever succeeded in developing and perfecting the technology.
JUST IN
South China Sea crisis: Will Trump's Middle East policy help Beijing
“Super Great White Shark” (Image: Star)
The US airforce experimented extensively in the 1950s and 1960s with new types of vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
This involved circular flying platforms and rotorcraft with large central lift fans and more complex flying saucer-like designs.
The model that came closest to succeeding was the Avro Canada or VZ-9 Avrocar.
This ingenious design used three centrally mounted jet engines to blow air through vents all around its circular edge to create lift.
Moller 200G (Image: GETTY)
VZ-9 Avrocar (Image: GETTY)
These vents could then be angled to provide forward thrust.
An additional central lift fan gave the craft the ability to take off and land vertically.
Unfortunately, the designers were never able to overcome thrust and stability issues, leading to the project being abandoned in 1961.
However flying saucer concepts have continued to fire the imagination of designers all over the world.
This has led to a steady stream of innovative designs, with a most notable one being the Moller M200G Volantor.
Conceived by the designer Paul Moller, the M200G was supposed to be a flying saucer for civilian use.
It received a fair amount of media attention at the time in the early 2000s, which led to more refined models, but alas no concrete sales.
In a further interesting development, Romanian engineers have built a subscale model of a circular helicopter, which they have called the All-Directional Flying Object.
The UFO-like craft is not the only new military technology China has been developing, as it seeks to vamp up its military capabilities.
Researchers in eastern China say they have developed an airborne laser device that can detect underwater objects at unprecedented depths.
This might one day be used to track submarines.
The team from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics said the device could pick up objects more than 160 metres (525 feet) beneath the sea, twice as deep as devices used today.
They added: “It is the first time to have reached that depth with potential for further improvement."
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AVIC bullish on new helicopter's potential
By Zhao Lei in Tianjin | China Daily | Updated: 2019-10-14 09:40
An AC352 helicopter. [Photo by Liu Yang/For China Daily]
China's leading aircraft maker expects to sell at least 300 AC352s in 20 years
Aviation Industry Corp of China, the nation's leading aircraft maker, is bullish on the market prospects of its AC352 utility helicopter and will develop variants for industrial users, a company executive said.
Sun Qingmin, deputy manager of Avicopter, AVIC's helicopter branch, said on Thursday that the company had received initial orders for more than 10 AC352s from domestic clients such as CITIC Offshore Helicopter, a leading Chinese general aviation services provider, and expected to sell at least 300 in China over the next 20 years.
"Though the airworthiness certification process is still underway, we have been working hard to promote the helicopter in the market, especially to existing users of our products in the government such as the public security and transportation authorities," Sun said on the sidelines of the 5th China Helicopter Exposition, which opened in Tianjin on Thursday.
"We are optimistic about the AC352's market prospects in China because the Ministry of Public Security has plans to set up more than 300 police aviation squadrons across the country in the near future and will consequently need a lot of utility helicopters like our AC352."
He said China also has long coastlines and many offshore industries, and that can lead to solid demand for advanced long-range helicopters such as the AC352 to conduct a variety of operations, including transportation and maritime search and rescue.
"Many of our targeted clients told us that they urgently need the AC352 and that as soon as its airworthiness certification is done, they will place orders," Sun said.
Lu Weijian, the AC352's chief designer at Avicopter, said: "Potential users told me that they are attracted by the helicopter's good economy and low operational and maintenance costs. They said the helicopter will be useful in rescue missions, medical air services, maritime patrols and offshore oil rigs' transport operations."
The AC352, China's first 7-metric-ton-class helicopter, was codeveloped by Avicopter and Airbus Helicopters in 2006. It made its first flight in December 2016 in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.
The European model-which Airbus Helicopters refers to as the H175-made its maiden flight in December 2009 in France and was certified in January 2014 by the European Aviation Safety Agency. Deliveries to buyers began in December 2014, according to Airbus Helicopters.
However, some technical issues had resulted in delays in the Chinese version's test flight and certification process, sources close to the program said.
The two companies expect to sell about 800 to 1,000 AC352s over the next 20 years, with profits to be split equally.
The helicopter has a maximum takeoff weight of 7.5 tons, a maximum carrying capacity of 3 tons and a cruising speed of 275 kilometers per hour. It can fly up to 850 km in a single operation, according to Avicopter.
It said the AC352 is one of the most comfortable and environmentally friendly medium-sized helicopters in the world, adding that, in addition to two pilots, it can transport up to 16 passengers.
By Zhao Lei in Tianjin | China Daily | Updated: 2019-10-14 09:40
An AC352 helicopter. [Photo by Liu Yang/For China Daily]
China's leading aircraft maker expects to sell at least 300 AC352s in 20 years
Aviation Industry Corp of China, the nation's leading aircraft maker, is bullish on the market prospects of its AC352 utility helicopter and will develop variants for industrial users, a company executive said.
Sun Qingmin, deputy manager of Avicopter, AVIC's helicopter branch, said on Thursday that the company had received initial orders for more than 10 AC352s from domestic clients such as CITIC Offshore Helicopter, a leading Chinese general aviation services provider, and expected to sell at least 300 in China over the next 20 years.
"Though the airworthiness certification process is still underway, we have been working hard to promote the helicopter in the market, especially to existing users of our products in the government such as the public security and transportation authorities," Sun said on the sidelines of the 5th China Helicopter Exposition, which opened in Tianjin on Thursday.
"We are optimistic about the AC352's market prospects in China because the Ministry of Public Security has plans to set up more than 300 police aviation squadrons across the country in the near future and will consequently need a lot of utility helicopters like our AC352."
He said China also has long coastlines and many offshore industries, and that can lead to solid demand for advanced long-range helicopters such as the AC352 to conduct a variety of operations, including transportation and maritime search and rescue.
"Many of our targeted clients told us that they urgently need the AC352 and that as soon as its airworthiness certification is done, they will place orders," Sun said.
Lu Weijian, the AC352's chief designer at Avicopter, said: "Potential users told me that they are attracted by the helicopter's good economy and low operational and maintenance costs. They said the helicopter will be useful in rescue missions, medical air services, maritime patrols and offshore oil rigs' transport operations."
The AC352, China's first 7-metric-ton-class helicopter, was codeveloped by Avicopter and Airbus Helicopters in 2006. It made its first flight in December 2016 in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.
The European model-which Airbus Helicopters refers to as the H175-made its maiden flight in December 2009 in France and was certified in January 2014 by the European Aviation Safety Agency. Deliveries to buyers began in December 2014, according to Airbus Helicopters.
However, some technical issues had resulted in delays in the Chinese version's test flight and certification process, sources close to the program said.
The two companies expect to sell about 800 to 1,000 AC352s over the next 20 years, with profits to be split equally.
The helicopter has a maximum takeoff weight of 7.5 tons, a maximum carrying capacity of 3 tons and a cruising speed of 275 kilometers per hour. It can fly up to 850 km in a single operation, according to Avicopter.
It said the AC352 is one of the most comfortable and environmentally friendly medium-sized helicopters in the world, adding that, in addition to two pilots, it can transport up to 16 passengers.
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