DUBAI AIRSHOW 2023: “AutoFlight Unveils AAM Firefighting Program, Debuts Fully Functional Prototype” (Watch Video)

Chi­na-based Aut­oFlight, is fol­low­ing “the Airsteps of EHang,” by unveil­ing at the Dubai Air­show, an excit­ing and inno­v­a­tive eVTOL pro­gram to help fire­fight­ers extin­guish dan­ger­ous fires, reports a press release. 

The ful­ly func­tion­al unmanned autonomous air­craft pro­to­type (please watch video), has a max­i­mum take­off weight of two met­ric tons and is designed to lift up to four fire-extin­guish­ing can­is­ters, each weigh­ing 100kg, or a 400kg pay­load, cov­er­ing a dis­tance of up to 200km, while reach­ing speeds in excess of 200km/h. This equates to a sin­gle pay­load, col­lec­tive­ly extin­guish­ing major fires, span­ning up to 800 sq/m.

The fire­fight­ing mod­el is based on the Car­ryAll, AutoFlight’s car­go eVTOL, for which the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na (CAAC) cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is expect­ed by ear­ly next year.

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Kellen Xie, Senior Vice Pres­i­dent of Glob­al Sales and Busi­ness Devel­op­ment at Aut­oFlight, commented,“Compared to exist­ing fire-fight­ing Unmanned Aer­i­al Vehi­cles avail­able in the mar­ket, Aut­oFlight’s pro­to­type has achieved sig­nif­i­cant break­throughs in terms of load capac­i­ty, flight dura­tion, cov­er­age, flight effi­cien­cy and fire­fight­ing effec­tive­ness.”

He con­tin­ued, “The ini­tial demon­stra­tions with poten­tial cus­tomers has received very encour­ag­ing feed­back. We will now enter dis­cus­sions with clients and devel­op­ment part­ners to evolve the pro­to­type into prod­uct, includ­ing ground sta­tion and sup­port­ing sys­tems.”

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https://autoflight.com/en/

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