The first flight was successful!

Recently, the ET9 prototype of electric vertical take-off and landing airplane (eVTOL) independently developed by EVERVETT (Nanjing) Aviation Technology Co. It can be widely used in high-frequency cargo transportation, specialty tourism, emergency rescue, urban air travel and other scenarios.

The founding team of EVERVITT comes from aerospace institutes such as COMAC and AVIC, and has rich experience in the research and development of manned airplanes. Adhering to the design concept of safety first and human-oriented, EverView adopts a forward design approach, and carries out airworthiness requirements throughout the design, manufacturing, testing and flight test processes.

The ET9 adopts a four-axis, eight-propeller composite wing configuration, which is simple and compact with superior aerodynamic performance, and has been verified through wind tunnel tests to provide data support for the subsequent airworthiness compliance verification.

The successful maiden flight of the ET9 prototype demonstrates the breakthrough progress in the development of this model, which not only verifies the design scheme and realizes the whole aircraft system function, but also takes an important step from R&D product to commercial product. Next, the ET9 prototype will carry out continuous test flights and interface with airworthiness authorities to enter the airworthiness verification process.

Low-altitude economy is a comprehensive economic form based on civil manned and unmanned aerial vehicles, with low-altitude flight activities such as manned, cargo and other operations as the traction, and the integration and development of related fields driven by radiation, including low-altitude manufacturing industry, low-altitude flight industry, low-altitude security industry and comprehensive service industry.

The future of air travel, the market prospect is broad, enterprises have "into the field", the government to accelerate the layout. Nanjing civil unmanned aerial test area construction in Pukou District as the core area, 2020 was evaluated as the first batch of national, the province's only civil unmanned aerial test area.

At present, the pilot area has gathered nearly 20,000 people, including Changkong Technology, AVIC Jincheng Unmanned Systems, SAC Intelligent Aviation Research Institute, Dawei Aviation, and Model Sky.30Enterprises in the well-known field of drones cover a wide range of fields such as R&D and design, complete aircraft production, operation services, and industry applications.
Playing the "Key Chess"

Multi-measures to build new growth points

According to the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, in recent years, the city has been focusing on the requirements of the goal of industrial strength, and actively promoting the development of low altitude industry. 2023 low altitude economy related industry revenue of nearly 3 billion yuan.

Ramp control automation system of Nanjing Les Information Technology Co.

On the development of the low-altitude industry

Rongtong 60, AVIC Jincheng Unmanned Systems Company, Yvette (Nanjing) Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. and other aircraft manufacturing enterprises, and cultivated Les Information, Intelligent Aviation Research Institute and other flight command and control, mapping and navigation services enterprises, low altitude industry, the level of the strong and complementary chain of chain extension has been significantly strengthened.

In terms of low-altitude scenario applications

A number of high-quality application scenarios have been formed, such as regularized law enforcement cruises along the Yangtze River by Nanjing Maritime Department, offshore distribution of goods to passing ships by Nanjing Yangtze River Hui Company, disaster reconnaissance and search and rescue by Nanjing Firefighters' UAV, sightseeing tours and emergency rescue by Laoshan General Airport, and so on.

Relevant staff use drones to conduct aerial river patrol operations along the Xu River in Gaochun District.

In terms of innovative resource pools

It has a number of aviation-related universities and high-level scientific research institutes, such as SAC, SIT, SIT, and CLP 14 and 28, and has built a number of national key laboratories, national defense science and technology key laboratories, and science and innovation platforms in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

In the area of pilot zone construction

It has constructed "one center, two platforms, four airspaces and multiple sites" operation and management system, built the first 5G network in China, and the only civil drone test flight base in the province certified and licensed by civil aviation, and for two consecutive years, the General Administration of Civil Aviation of the People's Republic of China (CAAC) has organized the national test area construction results assessment and acceptance, which have given the Nanjing test area a high degree of evaluation and unanimously praised.

The Nanjing Action Plan for Promoting Industrial Strength (2023-2025) proposes to "accelerate the construction of low-altitude intellectual networking and drone bases, build a national model area for aeronautical electromechanical systems, and continuously expand the scale of the low-altitude economy industry." This year's Nanjing Municipal Government Work Report also proposes to seize the first opportunity for low-altitude economic development.