China's AG600 Amphibious Aircraft Completes Ground Test of Flight Load Calibration

TapTechNews June 18, according to the official news of 'Aviation Industry', the ground test of flight load calibration of China's large amphibious aircraft 'Kunlong' AG600 was completed at the Flight Test Center of Aviation Industry.

The ground test of all-aircraft load calibration of AG600 includes the ground test of airframe load calibration and the on-line verification test of movable surface load calibration. The test lasted for 28 days and completed 259 working condition loadings, providing an important guarantee for completing the flight load surface compliance flight test.

The AG-600 amphibious aircraft adopts a single-hull, cantilever high-wing layout; four WJ6 engines are selected and the front three-point retractable landing gear is used. When the AG-600 seaplane is performing the forest fire fighting task, it can draw water 12000 kilograms (approx. 26455 pounds) in 20 seconds. The aircraft can make many round trips between the water source and the fire site and drop water for fire fighting. When performing the water rescue task, the lowest stable flight altitude of the aircraft is 50 meters (approx. 164 feet), and it can be parked on the water surface to carry out rescue operations, and it can rescue up to 50 people in distress at a time.

According to the previous report of TapTechNews, before this, the AG600 aircraft has initially completed the verification such as airspeed calibration, baseline stall speed flight test, water rescue mode verification, fire fighting task capacity verification, alpine ground test, night flight test, etc.