According to Wang, the Ziyan products have been tested along the coastal line since the first flight test. The sea breeze is strong and erratic. Challenging as the wind is, it proves the outstanding performance of the Ziyan unmanned helicopters. "We are now mostly testing the night flights," Wang said.

Load
Ziyan produces unmanned helicopters that have competitive lightweight bodies of 5 kilograms and at the same time a high net load of 20 kilograms. The maximum take-off weight of ZYG 800 is 40 kilograms. The weight of the quadcopter at this size is 10 kilograms, twice that of ZYG 800's.

Efficacy
Unmanned helicopters are also known for its long endurance and comparatively low power consumption. Powered mostly by battery, ZYG 800 is highly efficient. With 10-kilogram cargo capacity and the battery can last over 30 minutes.
The high speed and long endurance has assured a longer voyage of Ziyan unmanned helicopters. They have longer flying distances, the shortest of which is over 30 kilometers. This flying distance alone is industry leading and much better than the claimed approximate 15 kilometer flying distance of most quadcopters.

Industrial flight control systems
The Ziyan team has put in continuous effort in researching and developing reliable smart flight control systems, that can complete the fully autonomous flight. Due to the absence of airworthiness regulations on drones, from modeling and stimulation to the design process based on model, the Ziyan team has kept their work in line with the airworthiness design criteria in the aviation industry. From the aerodynamic performance analysis, subcomponent modeling, automatic code generation, requirement-based testing, Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation (HILS) to test flights, Ziyan has adopted the regulations in the aviation industry to develop the flight control system for industrial use.

Smart system
The navigation enhancement with high precision, laser radar (Lidar), infrared/visible light camera, as well as many other advanced sensor fusion technology have brought strong perception to the next generation Ziyan avionics platform. Ziyan's independent visual processing system enables its products to accomplish real-time target identification and tracking. With the latest deep learning algorithms, Ziyan's unmanned helicopter can be a smart control aircraft that can actually think.
"Ziyan's advanced integration and development technologies are why its products have long endurance, high bearing capacity and speed. These technologies are well adopted from the advanced research and development system in aviation," Wang said.
As the logistic industry is highly concerned with cost, Ziyan has integrated the resources in Pearl River Delta, successfully decreasing the manufacturing cost of the control flight system as well as the whole aircraft. This enables Ziyan to bring highly competitive unmanned helicopter products to the market at a comparatively low cost.

The Ultimate UAV Dream  

"This is a true unmanned aircraft that we are developing, not some kind of toy that you play for a day or two and leave it behind, or a something that will create safety concerns. It is a safe, high-speed unmanned helicopter that could be applied to the logistics industry perfectly, " said Wang. He is well aware that the progress and development in the aviation industry has consumed lives and thus safety remains his first concern. "The highest reliability equals the lowest cost," he said.

From Wang's perspective, the breakthrough that the logistics industry has been longing for will never come if they keep working on quadcopters. Some logistics companies have realized that unmanned helicopters are promising and Ziyan will be glad to provide a system integration solution for them with its system.

Ziyan has already started to provide customized products to clients all around the world. Wang does not see Ziyan as a hardware manufacturer of unmanned helicopters, but a solution provider with the ability of self-developed manufacturing, producing and system integration. This is also why Ziyan is able to integrate hardware and software, as well as design and technology to lower the production cost and use-cost.

The flying platform as well as the logistics platform that Ziyan provide will open to small to medium sized unmanned helicopters, which ensure a high compatibility of these platforms to meet the different features and needs of clients.

Jiangping Wang has an extraordinary love and profound understanding of aircrafts since the 1990s. According to him, the booming UAV industry is in China enables, say, amateurs, to enter the industry. Unmanned aircrafts, however, are still something that should be taken seriously. "If you want to make an aircraft, you need to research, to develop and to test it, not to show it on slides. I am building a aeronautical enterprise, not a toy company," he said.

In April 2016, Ziyan ZYG 800 has entered the commercial market. More Ziyan products will be coming out this November on the 11th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition. For Wang and his Ziyan team, this is merely the start. He expects to see the application of the Ziyan platform worldwide and to bring the "aerial logistics system" as Jeff Bazos noted from science fiction to reality.

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