Chapter 759: Jet Age II

readx; "The fuselage design is the responsibility of Chuzhou Aircraft Company and Guang'an Aircraft Company, and the first two are the overall design works of Guang'an Aircraft Company, using Fule Electric's engine. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The INFO test model is X10A, and the last two are products of Chuzhou Aircraft Company, using their own developed engines, and the test model is X10B. At present, the Air Force is conducting a final test comparison of the two aircraft, and one of them will be selected for service at that time, and the number of the F10 fighter will be officially awarded! ”

The research and development of weapons has always been a bidding system, especially the combat aircraft of the Air Force, which is basically a design bidding for several domestic aircraft companies at the same time, and then signs a preliminary research and development contract, and finally compares the test aircraft developed by each company, and the winner will receive a formal order from the Air Force.

Here we have to mention China's scientific research mechanism, China's current research and development mechanism except for a very small number of research projects that take a long time, such as hybrid rice, such as nuclear bomb research and development, missile research and development projects, the rest are basically responsible for the private sector, although China also has a national academy of sciences, but it is more of an honorary title, not a specific research and development institution. China's best R&D institutions are basically laboratories jointly built by major enterprises and universities, such as the country's largest defense technology contractor, Föhler Electric, which has basically cooperated with various universities in China and established numerous laboratories.

In fact, even the research and development of nuclear bombs and missiles are actually contracted by major enterprises in blocks, and all kinds of equipment and technologies needed for the research of nuclear bombs are scattered among the major enterprises, so that they can carry out specific technical design, and the nuclear bomb research and development base established in northwest China is only an experimental and theoretical research base. The research and development of nuclear bombs is actually the same as the construction of aircraft carriers and battleships, and it is a national project, which requires too many kinds of technical equipment, and it is impossible to say that the nuclear bomb research laboratory can build its own equipment one by one.

It's just that the parts contractors don't know that the parts they design and manufacture are for use in nuclear bombs.

With the introduction of Lieutenant General Lin Feiyang's words, the first jet fighter has begun to taxi on the runway, as the speed of taxiing is getting faster and faster, when it is about to reach the end of the runway, this fighter quickly raised its head, and then carried out a high angle of rapid climbing, and this excellent climbing ability made the generals around Chen Jingyun amazed, Huang Xia'an, president of Guang'an Aircraft Company on the side, and the general manager of Fule Electric Aviation Institute glanced at each other, and they all saw a smile in each other's eyes. Then I looked at Huang Xia'an and then looked at the general manager of Chuzhou Aircraft Company opposite, and the smug look in his eyes was self-evident.

Guang'an Aircraft Company in China's fighter project, has been Chuzhou Aircraft Company stabilized a head, liquid-cooled engine project they lost to Chuzhou Aircraft Company's F5 fighter, although finally changed to a high-altitude interceptor fighter and obtained a part of the Air Force's order, but compared with the F5 fighter huge order is not worth mentioning. The failure of the B15 project not only caused heavy losses to the Air Force, but also caused heavy losses to the Guang'an Aircraft Company itself, and was dragged down by the B15 project, the Guang'an Aircraft Company lost the XB19 project to Chuzhou Aircraft Company, and lost the order for the B19 bomber, and the mid-to-late thirties were a tragic era for the Guang'an Aircraft Company. If it weren't for the fact that Guang'an Aircraft Company had a large market for civilian passenger and cargo aircraft, and at the same time obtained orders for F8 carrier-based aircraft from the Navy, which gave Guang'an Aircraft Company a respite, I am afraid that Guang'an Aircraft Company would have gone bankrupt in the late thirties.

In the late thirties, Föhl Electric acquired the aviation department of Shanghai Dynamics, that is, the air-cooled engine department of Shanghai Dynamics, and then merged with its own jet engine department to form Fuller Airlines, which became the largest aero-engine R&D and production enterprise in China. And Chuzhou Aircraft Company under the Ministry of Aviation in the aero engine market formed a comprehensive competition, at the beginning of the Fule Electric is still ready to personally get involved in the aircraft design and manufacturing industry, but later found that the cost is too great, and their own technical reserves are also seriously insufficient, the acquisition of small aircraft companies is useless, the design of several military aircraft and civil aircraft are in a variety of bidding failed, after spending a lot of money Fule Electric airlines finally chose to carry out strategic cooperation with Guang'an Aircraft Company, Föhler Electric was responsible for the engines, and Guang'an Aircraft Company was responsible for the airframe design, and together competed with Chuzhou Aircraft Company and several other domestic aviation companies in the military and civil aircraft markets.

Among them, the F8 fighter project is a successful model, and now it is united to make the X10A jet test aircraft, the purpose is very obvious, that is, to compete with the X10B of Chuzhou Aircraft Company, in order to compete for the future jet fighter contract of the Air Force, once it can win this contract for the Fule Electric Aviation Department and Guang'an Aircraft Company, it is a strategic leap.

At that time, it will not only be able to obtain a large number of orders for jet fighters from the Air Force, but also a large amount of R&D investment from the Air Force.

In order to get the order, then they have to show that their aircraft has a better surname advantage, and in fact, the Air Force has conducted many tests and comparisons before, but the actual surname between X10A and X10B is comparable so that the Air Force has not made up its mind to equip that aircraft, and Chuzhou Aircraft Company, Guang'an Aircraft Company, and Fule Electric have also carried out extensive public relations activities for the Air Force high-level, after all, China is also a country composed of normal human beings, It is also an unspoken rule for large companies to conduct public relations activities in order to obtain orders.

However, when it comes to the choice of the next generation of fighters, those officials of the Air Force do not dare to act rashly, and although they have also received money, they do not say a word, showing the bad behavior of only taking money and not doing things; in fact, these people in the Air Force do not have much decision-making power, and the real decision-making power is actually in the hands of Chen Jingyun.

Therefore, the most fundamental goal of the public relations of the new aircraft this time has to be Chen Jingyun, how to publicize Chen Jingyun? It's not okay to send money to women, the only feasible way is to get Chen Jingyun to agree with his plane.

At that time, the actual surnames of the two planes were almost the same, so some tricks were needed, such as the X10A aircraft of Guang'an Aircraft Company just now made a high-angle climb during takeoff, which basically belonged to the category of stunt performances, so that Chen Jingyun nodded frequently.

Seeing the flight performance of his own plane making Chen Jingyun nod frequently, the people of Fule Electric and Guang'an Aircraft Company couldn't help but be proud!

Immediately afterwards, the X10B of Chuzhou Aircraft Company also carried out a test flight, and because their test flight was not arranged in advance, the test pilots carried out a decent regular flight performance, which was very different from the previous X10A flight performance.

In fact, Chen Jingyun is also an outer door to aviation technology, and the specific judgment is also based on some surnames can be reported, and when the surnames of these two test aircraft can be reported are similar, then Chen Jingyun is naturally more inclined to have a better impression of X10A.

Seeing that Chen Jingyun was very interested in the X10A, Lieutenant General Lin Feiyang of the Air Force also lost no time in further explaining this test aircraft to Chen Jingyun, after all, for the Air Force, in fact, these two aircraft are almost the same, and there is little difference between the equipment, and now the biggest problem of the Air Force is how to get enough funds from Chen Jingyun to purchase jet fighters in large quantities.

Each FL-39 engine can produce 900 kilograms of thrust, with an empty weight of 4,100 kilograms and a maximum take-off weight of 6,900 kilograms. The maximum level flight speed is currently 850 kilometers per hour, and the dive speed is higher, and it can even reach more than 1,000 kilometers per hour, so the three departments believe that the maximum speed of this test machine has not yet exerted its maximum potential, and there is a possibility of further improvement, but in the early stage of the extreme speed flight test, in the case of diving, when approaching the top speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, there will be a danger of loss of control, and cause the aircraft to accelerate and dive and cannot be changed, and finally disintegrate. This is mainly limited by the strength of the fuselage and the design of the fuselage streamline, at present, the third department of the Air Force has carried out in-depth technical exploration and research on this situation, and is testing the effect of the swept wing and the triangular swept tail! As the leader of the Air Force's jets, Lin Feiyang is naturally clear about the surnames of these aircraft developed by the Air Force.

Chen Jingyun on the side heard that the level flight speed of this X10A reached 850 kilometers per hour, and he couldn't help but be amazed, the speed of the development of aviation technology is too fast, when the air-cooled engine was still at its peak in China, the liquid-cooled engine has been mature and used on a large scale, but this liquid-cooled engine has just been put into large-scale service, and now the jet engine is emerging again, and this progress is not only in China, but the progress of the world as a whole, If China is not careful, it will be left behind.

Jet engines are not only in China, Germany, Britain have similar plans and products, and from the basic industry, the technical reserves between China, Germany, the United States and Britain are not much different, mainly due to the limitations of some design details, simply put, industrial technology has reached the conditions for breakthroughs, but a breakthrough is needed, and Germany and China have found a breakthrough in cooperation, but the United States and Britain are still groping for a breakthrough, but as long as they react with their industrial technology reserves, It will not be too difficult to develop jet engines quickly, at most there will be less experience, and the surname can be slightly worse, but there will be no essential surname can be substituted.