Looking at the whole country, in almost all the military industry, such a phenomenon exists.

As the country's economy began to transform, a large number of military factories built in the past to prepare for war were in the stage of overcapacity, but now the country does not need so many military products, and the future of these factories will immediately become bleak without orders from the army.

Some factories will go bankrupt and go bankrupt, while the other part of the factories, under the vigorous development of the leaders, are determined to innovate, forge ahead, and have come out of a singing and crying road.

Factory 132 is one of the most typical representatives.

Now, Factory 132 has been forced to go to Liangshan, and they only have this way to go.

The superiors gave up the project with the Marconi company, and would rather not have the previous deposit, but would rather compensate the Marconi company for part of the loss, and throw away the project, but Tu Lao and others must insist on going, so that all the consequences will have to be borne by them.

If this project fails, it can be said that many people will be buried in the second half of their lives, which is a great risk.

However, for the sake of the progress of the aviation industry of the motherland, they are not afraid of these threats and follow the rules, which will only stop their progress, this opportunity is so rare that it must not be given up!

A few days later, a delegation from Egypt came to China, and their first stop was Chengdu.

The entire factory was cleaned and tidy, and the gate of Factory 132 was covered with banners made of red silk cloth on both sides.

Welcome Egyptian friends to visit our factory!

International friends of the Third World, unite!

At the gate of the factory, Director Xie, Tu Lao and others were waiting eagerly, watching the convoy receive guests from Chengdu Airport and go straight to their factory.

"Welcome, welcome." Looking at the passengers who got off the car, the two greeted them.

The person inside, wearing a grass-green uniform, led by a general star with a star on his shoulder, was the leader of the Egyptian Air Force expedition, Lusadi.

"It's a great pleasure to be in China." Lu Sadi looked at the comrades of the Third Machinery Department who accompanied him, and then looked at the crowd of people who greeted him in the factory here, and behind him, so many people were warmly welcomed, which made him feel very satisfied.

"Let's take a tour of our production line." Director Xie led a group of people and went straight to the fighter production line.

The production line of fighter jets is different from the production line of automobiles.

The car production line is fluid, and it is assembled at various stations as it moves forward, while the fighter plane, which is fixed, stays somewhere in the plant, and then all the parts and components are installed here.

During World War II, hundreds of fighter planes were assembled in the factory at every turn, and this kind of scene looked spectacular.

Of course, the efficiency of this mode of production is not the highest, so in the new century, with the saying of the pulsating production line of fighters, the production of fighters can also gradually flow to the station for processing.

Now, in the spacious and clean assembly workshop, at least 20 fighters are being assembled at the same time, a scale that shocked the visiting Jordanian guests.

"This fighter looks a little different from the MiG-21." Lusadi said.

"Yes sir, this is our improved model." Tu Lao on the side came up and introduced: "The biggest flaw of the original MiG-21 is that its ejection mechanism is complex, and the success rate of ejection is very low, so we have improved the ejection mechanism, redesigned the ejection seat, and improved the success rate of the pilot's ejection, for the Air Force, the pilot's life is the most important." ”

This sentence made everyone nod frequently, yes, the original MiG-21, the most criticized thing is that its ejection device is unreliable.

The J-7 fighter here, the key improvement is this ejection seat, but is the Chinese-made ejection seat reliable?

Lusadi's face was cautious: "We imported this kind of fighter plane, hoping to replace it with a Western ejection seat." For example, Martin Baker's MK10 ejection seat, how about it? ”

When it comes to the safety of pilots, this is definitely a big deal, and in this matter, the Jordanian side is quite cautious, in their eyes, the Chinese-made ejection seats, no matter how they are improved, are not as good as the West.

And in this era, Martin Baker's ejection seat, that is absolutely the world's advanced level.

In 1934, Sir James Martin, an engineer in Northern Ireland, and Captain Valentine Baker, a flight instructor, hit it off and founded the Martin Baker Company, which bears their last names.

Martin has a strong passion for aircraft design, while Baker is a good pilot. At the beginning of the company's existence, Martin was in charge of design, and Baker was one of the founders and chief test pilot of Martin Baker.

Between 1935 and 1946, Martin Baker developed seven aircraft. They also experienced the brutality of World War II, but it was clear that they did not have the talent, and none of these aircraft made it to mass production. Moreover, the chief test pilot, Captain Baker, was in an accident and died in an accident while testing the third Martin Baker aircraft.

The actual main source of income for the Martin Baker Company was the production of armored seats for the British Spitfire. During World War II, British government departments consulted with Martin Baker and asked Sir Martin if he could develop a seat that could eject pilots out of the cockpit during high-speed flight of fighter jets.

Sir Martin gladly accepted the challenge. In fact, the brain-loving Sir Martin had the initial idea of developing an ejection seat as early as 1934. Even he thought at the beginning that gunpowder was a better option than rubber bands, springs, and compressed air.

During World War II, Baker's death hit Martin hard. The Martin Baker ejection seat was not developed in time for World War II. It wasn't until 1945 that Martin Baker's first ejection mount began to enter the experimental phase.

The first test flight was a complete success, and from that time on, their company changed its goal and specialized in ejection seats.

Now, the MK10 ejection seat proposed by Jordan belongs to the second generation of ejection seat, and its biggest feature is that it adopts a "two-stage ejection mechanism". That is, the seat is ejected by the mechanism first, and after reaching a certain height, the rocket on the seat is started again.

This ejection rhythm allows the rocket in the seat to have an ideal altitude and speed before starting, so that the seat can fly out of a relatively straight ascent trajectory, so that the pilot can still obtain a safe altitude at very low flight altitudes.

After talking for a long time, to put it simply, it can achieve zero zero ejection, zero height, zero speed can also ensure the success of ejection.

The safety of this kind of seat, of course, is good, the ejection envelope is larger than your own ejection seat, but can it be changed?

Even if it can be changed, the amount of change is quite large, after all, everyone has not come into contact with Western ejection seats, and they do not know the technical specifications at all, do not know the volume, etc.

If this is changed, I am afraid that the progress will be delayed.