What is low-altitude tourism?
Low-altitude tourism refers to the comprehensive entertainment sports including aviation, sports, tourism and other projects in the low-altitude airspace below 1000 meters, relying on general aviation transport, general aviation aircraft and low-altitude aircraft, combined with local characteristics.
Recently, Geely's Wofei Changkong officially disclosed the latest configuration of its EVTOL AE200 airworthiness, and cooperated with Gansu Aviation Industry Investment to build a national-level electric aviation cultural tourism operation model.
As a technology company under Geely with low-altitude transportation and vehicle-mounted flight as its core, Wofei Changkong is an important part of Geely's deployment of large-scale three-dimensional urban transportation, focusing on EVTOL low-altitude manned aircraft and future low-altitude travel, creating innovative cross-border technology products, and continuously innovating around the low-altitude transportation and vehicle-mounted flight business segments.
In recent years, Wofei Changkong has not only independently developed its first flying car AE200, but also cooperated with Volocpoter, a German air company, to establish a joint venture to introduce Volocpoter's current high safety level and leading airworthiness progress VoloCity light flying car.
Among them, AE200 was accepted by the Civil Aviation Administration of China in November last year, and the first meeting of TCB was held in April 2023 and a project review team TCT was established, which entered the airworthiness review process and became the first "manned eVTOL" airworthiness certification enterprise in China.
The airworthiness configuration of AE200 is oriented to the final goal of mature commercial application of low-altitude travel, and the airworthiness configuration selection of "four tilts within eight axes" is clarified, which significantly improves the safety of its dangerous flight conditions and single power unit failure, and indicates that the prototype of this configuration has been rolled off the assembly line and continues to carry out relevant intensive test flight work.
Wofei Changkong and Gansu Aviation Industry Investment signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Chengdu, among which, Wofei Changkong has the advantages of leading technology and airworthiness, and Gansu Aviation Investment and its subsidiaries have formed cluster advantages in the fields of general airport construction and operation management, aircraft operation and maintenance, and flight training. Giving full play to their respective industrial and resource advantages, the two parties will strengthen coordination and linkage to jointly develop demonstration operation scenarios of eVTOL in transportation connection, cultural tourism and emergency rescue, etc., so as to empower the implementation and operation of eVTOL's cultural and tourism applications.
With the innovation of technology research and development and multi-party cooperation, Wofei Changkong has been at the forefront of China's flying car enterprises this time. In December, the Civil Aviation Administration of China also issued the "Notice on Soliciting Opinions on the Special Conditions for the Type Qualification Certification Project of Wofei Changkong AE200-100 Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft", indicating that the certification basis for the AE200 airworthiness certification work has been initially in place, and it is moving steadily towards obtaining the type certificate.