TOP UK AWARD FOR YUNEEC

31 Mar 2010

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Yuneec E430 makes first two-up flights.

THE Yuneec E430 electric aircraft being developed and built by a Chinese company has won a top British design award and will be shown at next week's AERO 2010 show in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

The Yuneec E430 received the Design Museum's prestigious 'Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2010' - Transport Award, after being nominated by designer Sebastian Conran.

Yuneec said, "The Transport section of the design awards featured major manufacturers and world class companies such as BMW, Honda and Nissan and it is a great honour for Yuneec to have been chosen for the 1st place from such esteemed competition.

"For Yuneec this is a huge compliment for its design team, engineers and staff all of whom have work relentlessly in the past year to develop the high class electric propulsion system and E430 aircraft. To go from drawings board to a flying aircraft in under 6 months was truly amazing.

"This award demonstrates that Yuneec is truly at the forefront of environmentally friendly 'Electric' aviation."

Yuneec says it has six electric aircraft projects under development as well as other types of transport under consideration. One, the E-Spyder single-seat microlight, pictured left, will also be shown at AERO 2010.

The E430 has also made its first two person flights, with US test pilot Dave Morss at the controls. Over the two days two E430s were tested back to back - one with wing flaps and the other with airbrakes. Both aircraft performed faultlessly during the multiple 1/2 hour test sessions. After evaluation of the logged data and with pilot feedback from Dave Morss, the E430 with the best around performance was the version with flaps.

To complete this part of the test programme the first passenger flights took place. The first person to fly was the E430 co-ordinator Creana Ke who has been working on the project from the very beginning. She was delighted to be the first ever passenger in an E430.

After Creana was Yuneec's Chairman and founder Mr Tian Yu who took to the skies for another 30+ minute flight.

See the video of the take-off and a low pass on YouTube.

Yuneec's stand at AERO 2010 is in Hall B4, stand 401.

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Yuneec E430 launch at Oshkosh 2009 on LOOP TV

 

 

 

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