Shidi Technology’s E20 eVTOL has successfully completed system joint debugging and test flight, designed with the same take-off weight, power and system equipment as the full-scale prototype.
The team successively performed multiple test stages of system joint debugging, ballast durability, tethered flight test and untethered flight test, and achieved over 320 take-offs and landings with the aircraft weighing more than two tons.
Thanks to the team’s rigorous and meticulous work during the design, manufacturing and equipment-level tests and the active cooperation of suppliers, the performance of the frame machine was stable and reliable during the system and complete machine tests, so the team can also concentrate on the analysis of test data, improvement of simulation model, tuning of power unit and control law parameters.
From March’s bench tension test to August’s completion of the test flight of the frame machine in the heat fumigation, the departments cooperated closely adhering to the company’s corporate culture of self-motivation, diligence, integrity and compliance with practice.
The eVTOL is an important platform for power system verification, flight control and avionics joint debugging verification. The frame machine test speeds up the iterative solution to technical problems, effectively reduces the risk of prototype flight test, and promotes the smooth progress of the E20 eVTOL project.
The project has now entered the stage of complete machine testing and verification, and the E20 eVTOL prototype has entered a comprehensive flight test.
