China’s United Aircraft Corporation has produced the world’s first 6-ton tiltrotor aircraft. The company rolled out the aircraft at Wuhu Aviation Industrial Park in Wanzhi district.
This tiltrotor aircraft, code-named Lanying R6000, is the world’s most advanced aviation-grade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) independently developed by United Aircraft Corporation.
It supports both unmanned and manned operations and can achieve international-level long-distance point-to-point flights.
2,500-mile range, 340 mph speed
Lanying R6000’s maximum take-off weight (MTOW) is 6 tons, and its payload capacity is 2 tons.
The aircraft can carry up to 10 passengers and has a maximum range of 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles).
The fastest cruising speed of the drone is 550 kilometers per hour (340 miles per hour), and the maximum cruising altitude is 7,620 meters.
Industry insiders said that after being put into practical application in the future, Lanying R6000 will profoundly change the way humans travel and the logistics industry and strongly empower multiple fields such as transportation, logistics, emergency response, and national defense.
Tiltrotor drone
The Lanying R6000 can vertically take off, land, and hover in the air like ordinary helicopters. It has the advantage of high-speed cruising of fixed-wing aircraft because it adopts a complex and innovative tiltrotor configuration.
However, because of this, the Lanying R6000 is highly difficult to produce and has a low assembly error tolerance.
Therefore, United Aircraft arranged for its assembly in Wuhu United Aircraft, the group’s production and manufacturing headquarters and the main strategic fulcrum in East China.
The reasons for choosing to assemble the Lanying R6000 in Wuhu are far more than that.
“The development of the aviation industry depends on a good industrial ecology, and Wuhu obviously has this condition,” the relevant person in charge of Wuhu United Aircraft said.
The person added that the complete gathering of upstream and downstream enterprises in Wuhu Aviation Industry Park can not only reduce R&D, procurement, and production costs but also promote technology iteration and increase technological innovation.
10-year development
After ten years of development, Wuhu Aviation Industrial Park has now gathered nearly 200 upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, covering the entire industrial chain, including R&D, manufacturing, maintenance, operation, training, logistics, etc.
The independent matching rate of key core components of the whole aircraft has reached 100%, realizing that a domestic general aviation aircraft can be produced without leaving the park.
A relevant person in charge of the Wanzhi District Aviation Industrial Center said that Wuhu has earned the reputation of “Look at Shanghai for big planes, and look at Wuhu for small planes.”
“Ten years of hard work will test the sword’s edge in one day,” a relevant person in charge of the Wuhu Aerospace (Low-altitude Economy) Special Team said.
The person added that the city’s aerospace industry has emerged from its cocoon, and the low-altitude economy is ready to take off.
After ten years of development, Wuhu’s low-altitude economy industry has not only “produced” “fruits” such as the Lanying R6000.
Still, it is also moving towards “being able to manufacture, fly, be widely used, and have excellent business forms.
Local News
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