Helicopter Health and Usage Monitoring System in China
Shibin Wang, Chaowei Tong, Zhiyu Tao, Ruqiang Yan, Xuefeng Chen · IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine · 2022
With the great advantages of hovering and vertical take-off and landing, helicopters play irreplaceable roles in the field of civil aviation, including transport, search and rescue, firefighting, medical transport, tourism, etc. Collected from public information, by the end of 2019, the total number of the global helicopters had exceeded 52 000, in which the number of helicopters in China was only about 2000, nearly 4% of the total. With the rapid development of the national economy and the opening of low-altitude airspace, there is an increasing demand for helicopters in China.