Beijing: China's independently-developed QMX50, a large solar-powered near-space unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), made its successful maiden flight in Yulin, northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) said in a statement on Sunday that the large aircraft is the first high-altitude low-speed UAV with a super-high aspect ratio, the first large UAV model with a twin-fuselage configuration and the first large all-electric UAV platform solely driven by solar power.
China has been betting for years on making a new generation of large-sized UAVs, as it sees this direction in the future of the aviation sector in the future, and will earn global airlines large financial resources that they are currently allocating to operate their lines.
