Qinghai, Golmud, an air force airfield.

Zhuang Jianye stood on the edge of the empty airport runway, looking at the misty and misty Gradan East Snow Mountain in the distance, his eyes suddenly became inexplicably confused, his face involuntarily turned red, and then his body shook involuntarily.

It's as if I'm really fascinated by the goddess of the snowy mountains.

Seeing this, Lin Guanghua on the side hurriedly stuffed the oxygen intubation into Zhuang Jianye's nostrils, Zhuang Jianye gasped violently, and his face looked better.

"No, go to the house to rest, I'm staring here. Lin Guanghua said with concern.

Zhuang Jianye greedily sucked it twice, and then he felt that his head felt better, and shook his head, "No, the plateau test flight is different from the aircraft test center, even people can't stand it in this place, let alone the plane, it's better to see it in person." ”

Hearing Zhuang Jianye's words, Lin Guanghua pursed his lips, and then rubbed his hand to warm up his face that had given birth to plateau red, and then he was relieved, "Yes, such an intensive test flight progress, that is, it is a little hard, but from another side, the troops are still very satisfied with our Yun-6, otherwise they would not have arranged the test flight so intensively, and they would have survived by gritting their teeth." ”

Lin Guanghua is right, since the completion of the assembly of the Y-6 prototype at the beginning of March, a series of high-intensity test tests have begun.

At first, Zhuang Jianye and Lin Guanghua didn't feel anything, thinking that such a fast-paced test was conducive to the finalization of Yun 6, of course, this was based on the overall confidence of the two of them in Yun 6, so they dared to let go of it.

In fact, the Y-6 did not disappoint them, except for a very small part that needed to be changed, the others met the design requirements, and the subsequent first flight was also very smooth.

I thought that I would just do ground tests while testing the flight until the end of the year, and then I could put the finalization on the agenda.

At the same time, the Y-6 prototype used for test flights entered an air force airfield in Golmud, Qinghai at an altitude of 4,300 meters, to conduct a plateau test flight verification.

If the previous ground test and test flight, Zhuang Jianye and Lin Guanghua felt that the fast pace was a little faster, but it was acceptable, directly entering the plateau for test flight was not a matter of fast pace, but similar to making a rocket.

You must know that according to the previous flight test plan, the test flight in the eastern region will not be able to thoroughly grasp the basic performance of the Y-6 until at least mid-June, and then it will be possible to go to the plateau for further test flight verification.

After all, the climate and environment of the plateau are very different from those in the eastern region, and if you cannot grasp the detailed flight data, it will not be conducive to the development of the plateau test flight.

As a result, the Air Force did the opposite, directly transporting the plane to the plateau.

That's it, the problem is that six Yun-6 aircraft were also purchased, with a unit price of 3.5 million yuan, it stands to reason that there is a business to come to Zhuang Jianye, a guy who sees money, should be happy, but for some reason I always feel that something is wrong.

Yes, a cautious Air Force is really too perverse.

Fortunately, Zhuang Jianye is not deaf or blind, and he also has some connections on it, so he immediately inquired, and then he learned that the situation in the southern border area of Tibet is unstable.

A neighboring country began to mass-assemble in the southern part of Tibet under the guise of military exercises, and the border area became very complicated by the severe snowstorm in the southern part of Tibet last year.

In order to rescue the victims in the southern Tibetan area, and at the same time to show a certain neighboring country a strong will to defend the country's territorial sovereignty, the troops acted quickly, but the problem was whether the troops moved quickly, but the transportation in the southern Tibetan area was so bad that land transportation could only reach the northern foot of the Himalayas.

The rest of the trail had to be crossed by livestock and manpower.

Air transport is an efficient and fast form of transportation, but only the S-70 "Black Hawk" helicopter imported from the United States can carry out this task, after all, the terrain in the southern Tibetan area is more complicated, and large transport planes cannot land at all, and it is difficult to achieve accurate supply.

If the number of S-70 "Black Hawk" helicopters on hand is large, there are only 24 of them, and if they are repaired or damaged, they will be stationed in the northwest to deal with the situation on the northwest border, and there will be less than 10 of them that can be put into the southern part of the Tibetan area.

Coupled with the short range and the limitations of the helicopter itself, the overall efficiency is not high.

If this had been put a year ago, the troops would have gritted their teeth and stiffened their teeth, lacked air transport means, and could not form rapid supply transportation, so they would have given full play to the spirit of not being afraid of hardship and death, and walked over step by step.

You must know that Chinese people are wolves and tigers everywhere, and they really haven't been afraid of anyone.

But just when the leaders of the troops were about to grit their teeth like this, they suddenly found that in addition to a group of tigers and wolves that walked like flying under their hands, there seemed to be an eagle that could spread its wings and soar on the plateau.

Take a closer look, good guys, they have already started test flights, and the technical indicators are still very good.

Wingspan 176 meters

The length of the aircraft is 142 meters

The height of the machine is 48 meters

The length, width and height of the cabin are 53 meters, 17 meters, and 14 meters, respectively

Maximum take-off weight 4800 kg

The maximum load capacity is 2300 kg

The range is 2400 km

The practical ceiling is 8400 meters

The TPE331-10 turboprop engine produced by Honeywell in the United States has a power of 776 kilowatts and 1200 shaft horsepower, which gives the Y-6 a strong carrying capacity at the same time, but also its maximum speed of 320 kilometers per hour.

An integrated avionics system with meteorology, communication and precision navigation jointly developed by British Aerospace, Thomson of France and Ericsson of Sweden.

It can make the Y-6 have the ability to take off and land day and night.

In addition, there are two support beams on the left and right reinforced straight upper wing, four control flaps, horizontal tail and vertical tail, so that the Y-6 has good ground and air low-speed performance, with the stout fixed front three-point landing gear and braking system, can take off and land freely on the 600-meter-long straight road.

With its small size, strong carrying capacity, high ceiling and, crucially, short take-off and landing capabilities, this is simply a super air truck tailored for the southern Tibetan region.

If not, forget it, not only now, but also have already been test-flown now, how can there be any reason not to use it?

Therefore, the superiors quickly decided to speed up the progress of the test flight of the Y-6, and at the same time promote the first batch of mass production, and strive to put it into use as soon as possible.

Of course, these things are not public, Zhuang Jianye was also reminded by the superior leaders unclearly because of the light of understanding the stealth material, otherwise how could he run like a donkey, and he was busy with production and high test flights, and he had already thrown off his burden, and he went home to hug his wife and coax the child.

Therefore, Lin Guanghua's relief Zhuang Jianye just smiled bitterly, and was about to say two words of bitterness, but at this moment, the words of the on-site commander came from the walkie-talkie, "Everything is normal, you can take off." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw a bright yellow plane at the end of the runway suddenly accelerate and slide, and only a few hundred meters later, it rose into the air and flew into the sky.

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