C919 now in Hi Chi Min City today.
ARJ21 also doing several round of demo flights to multiple destination in Vietnam.
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C919 now in Hi Chi Min City today.
ARJ21 also doing several round of demo flights to multiple destination in Vietnam.
Is @天真卖萌Bernard on Weibo the same guy as Yankee? I often see him interact with Cute Orca and Ayi.
Yankee got permabanned from Weibo in 2020.
Just a ban or was he invited for tea?
by78
General
AVIC is also getting into the electric VTOL business. It's currently working on the AG-EX air taxi, which features distributed electric propulsion and tiltrotors. So far, 1/6 and 1/2 scale demonstrators have successfully flown.
A 2-ton full scale prototype is currently being developed, which can carry five people (1 crew + 4 passengers) or a payload of 450kg. Other specs are as follows:
– Endurace: 60 minutes
– Range: 200km
– Cruise speed: 240km/h
– Capable of both vertical takeoff/landing and conventional horizontal takeoff/landing.
– Propulsion: tilt-rotar distributed electric propulsion
– Noise levels: ≤65dB at takeoff/landing, ≤40dB during cruise.
The AG-EX is specifically designed for the short-distance air passenger market of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
A 2-ton full scale prototype is currently being developed, which can carry five people (1 crew + 4 passengers) or a payload of 450kg. Other specs are as follows:
– Endurace: 60 minutes
– Range: 200km
– Cruise speed: 240km/h
– Capable of both vertical takeoff/landing and conventional horizontal takeoff/landing.
– Propulsion: tilt-rotar distributed electric propulsion
– Noise levels: ≤65dB at takeoff/landing, ≤40dB during cruise.
The AG-EX is specifically designed for the short-distance air passenger market of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
lcloo
Captain
It is a Basler BT-67, a remanufactured and modified DC-3. produced by Basler Turbo Conversion in Wisconsin, USA. Basler has remanufactured and modified in various configuration, a total of 68 DC-3, according to Wikipedia.
DC-3 is a well manufactured aircraft. I read an article in one of the aircraft monthly magazines many years ago that they wrote when they cut out a part of WW2 DC-3 fuselage after decades of services, they found the aluminun parts were as good as new, no signs of fatique at all.