Its thought at least 100 teams took part in the AVIC Cup International Unmanned Machine Innovation Contest in Beijing at the end of September. Six Teams came from the Northwestern Polytechnical University Shaanxi Province alone. The prize money was good and the main challenge, a carrier landing difficult. Very few reports have emerged so far but there is this tantalizing video...
On 28th Sept., the handover ceremony of the first emergency monitoring vehicle of national geographic information was held in Nanning, Guanxi. Vice Minister of the Ministry of National Land and Resources (MNLR) and Director General of SBSMG Xu Deming attended the ceremony and delivered a speech. Secretary of CPC committee of CASM Li Yongchun, Vice president of CASM Xin...
The Aviation Expo China 2011, the oldest and most professional aviation exposition, will be held from Sept. 21 to Sept. 24, and preparations for the expo are nearing completion. The advanced domestic unmanned helicopter, codenamed Z-5, has been placed in the exposition hall. It will be the first time that the helicopter has been seen by the public at...
On May 7th, the V750 chopper took off and maneuvered for 10 minutes around the Weifang Tianxiang Aerospace Industry’s test flight center, before performing a clean landing. The prototype has a maximum load capacity of 80 kg, can travel a distance of 500 kilometers and stay airborne for more than four hours. It has a maximum speed of 161...
The AVIC Cup, International UAV Innovation Grand Prix What sets this UAS contest apart from the others? Well, besides the large sum of prize money being offered entrants, it’s the real opportunity for an undiscovered design to go into production! Prize money totaling more than $375,000 thousand U.S. dollars and is open to all! The AVIC Cup contest being organized...
A report published by China Aviation Journal, China has successfully launched its own space plane prototype, the news came out shortly after the US Air Force announced the successful test of their advanced X37B space plane, which is widely regarded as a next-generation super weapon that is even more dangerous than atomic bomb. This story has now been deleted....
The first batch of 17 light, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial photography systems was delivered in Beijing on April 15 to the surveying and mapping departments of 16 provinces and municipalities. This marks the first time domestic surveying and mapping departments have begun to comprehensively apply UAV aerial photography systems that played significant roles in disaster relief for...
