The world's first airport for unmanned aerial vehicles is about to start

Recently, a Chinese-based construction company announced that it had completed the design and was about to embark on building a special airport dedicated to the first unmanned aerial vehicles in the world. gender.

This ambitious project is the brainchild of years of research and investment by Chinese flying car maker Ehang. The airport the company plans to build will be located in Hezhou, a city of 2 million people in southern China, and is specifically designed to focus on tourism.

In the immediate future, Ehang aims to open an electronic port service by the end of 2020 and will put into operation 20 samples of its 2-seat self-propelled aircraft to exploit aerial tours around the city.

EHang said the three-storey terminal building, along with air traffic control systems, will be built on an area of ​​2,500 square meters. On the terrace is a standard apron, which can accommodate up to 4 unmanned aerial vehicles of a large size at once. Inside the station area will be a reception hall, lounge area for passengers, food service, entertainment and toilet areas.

The purpose of this project is to exploit the tourism potential of Ha Chau, a city famous for its long historical heritage and natural beauty, but still not known by many people due to the southern central region. Quoc has had many other more famous traditional tourist destinations. Thereby turning Ha Chau into an attractive destination for domestic tourists of like international.

Prior to launching the unique airport construction project, Ehang completed the first test flights by unmanned taxis in the United States, and received a license to test a two-seater passenger plane. powered by electricity in Norway, showing that the company has acquired safe operational control technologies that are standard to exploit commercial services.

In addition, if successfully implemented, this can be considered as a model model to be applied in many other areas, not only for tourism purposes but also in other important areas such as logicstic. , security, rescue rescue .