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Xpeng Huitian is committed to developing flying cars, and this delivery marks the official entry of its products into the UAE market for regulatory sandbox testing.
China News Service, Guangzhou, October 20 (Reporter Wang Jie) The first land aircraft carrier aircraft (X3-F) (hereinafter referred to as the "test aircraft") put into the UAE's advanced low-altitude flight supervision demonstration zone rolled off the assembly line at the Guangzhou Xpeng Huitian flying car mass production factory (hereinafter referred to as the "factory") on the 20th.
On the same day, Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, member of the Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates and Chief of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, led a delegation to visit the factory, visit the world's first flying car mass production line, and receive the test aircraft on site. The rollout of the test machine is the first key node for the cooperation between the two parties. The cooperation between the two parties has entered the stage of substantial advancement from the mechanism level.
In the factory, Qasimi and his team went in-depth along the production line to connect the workshop and the final assembly workshop. They observed the entire process of the land aircraft carrier aircraft from the manufacturing of the carbon fiber fuselage to the off-line production of the complete aircraft, and gained an in-depth understanding of the factory's production system that integrates automobile industry efficiency and aviation quality standards. He said that Huitian and the UAE can work together to redefine new transportation methods in the future.
Huitian said that after all the first batch of test aircraft are delivered to the UAE, a sandbox trial operation will be carried out under the supervision of the UAE Civil Aviation Authority. In the next stage, the two parties will promote specific work around product certification, cross-emirate route planning and operation system construction, and explore the path for the landing and operation of personal low-altitude flights in the Middle East.
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The first batch of test aircraft will undergo sandbox trial operations under the supervision of the UAE Civil Aviation Authority.
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