China’s CASC Flies Uncrewed Cargo Aircraft, Drive/Fly eVTOL

YH-1000S

Hybridization of the YH-1000 large uncrewed cargo aircraft has reduced takeoff and landing distances and increased payload and range.

Credit: CASC
State-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) has conducted the first flights of two electric aircraft: a large uncrewed cargo aircraft and an autonomous drive/fly combination vehicle. An addition to CASC’s widely used CH (Rainbow) family of uncrewed aircraft, and developed by the...
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