Chapter 958: Satisfactory Progress!

In order to ensure all-weather missions, and to carry out airlift and airdrop near the combat area, the transport aircraft is indispensable for perfect communications, navigation and other electronic equipment.

Because many foreign avionics equipment companies are in the country for technology transfer and production, and Huaxing Group itself is a chip supplier, not only to provide high-performance chips, electronic components, connectors and electronic systems to the domestic military industry group companies, many domestic avionics equipment companies are also to Huaxing Group to purchase these chips and electronic components, and Huaxing Group itself can also display systems, flight control systems, navigation systems. communication systems and other avionics systems.

These are the technical strengths of Huaxing Group, it can be said that in terms of avionics system, it is impossible for these Western countries to pinch their necks, on the contrary, many companies are also worried that if they lose the domestic market of rabbits, it will cause irreparable losses.

Because the development of the domestic semiconductor industry is too fast, especially Huaxing Group is very strong in communication radar, atomic clock, fiber optic gyroscope, and microelectromechanical technology, on this basis, it is easy to manufacture high-precision navigation systems, weather radars and communication systems that integrate wind shear and terrain tracking capabilities.

Huake Aviation Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Huaxing Group, is also developing an advanced automatic flight system for this transport aircraft, which is connected to the aircraft's navigation and control system.

At the heart of the system are two flight management guidance and envelope computers, which receive information from all navigation sensors, flight and engine control systems, and specialized military mission management computers, and can automatically plan the best flight route and other guidance information according to the input mission parameters, and provide highly accurate control of autopilot functions when there are high requirements for flight attitude control, such as cruise flight, heavy cargo airdrop, ultra-low-altitude flight and ultra-low-altitude airdrop.

The reason for the research and development of this system is mainly because a large part of this transport aircraft is military, so when the low-altitude heavy-duty airdrop military transport aircraft carries out the airdrop of heavy equipment and the continuous airdrop of a large number of goods, there is a problem of violent shock disturbance caused by the rapid movement of goods in the cabin and the excessive change of the center of gravity, if the shock can not be controlled to converge, the aircraft will be out of control.

Although the change of the center of gravity of the continuous airdrop is not as drastic as that of the heavy object airdrop, the whole process lasts for a long time, and if this long-term continuous disturbance cannot be suppressed in time, it will also cause the aircraft to lose control.

Especially when the ultra-low altitude is dropped, the flight speed of the transport aircraft is close to the stall speed, coupled with the flight altitude of only a few meters close to the ground, it will crash if it loses control slightly, so the requirements for flight attitude stability control are higher.

In order to improve the performance of cargo airdrop, in addition to the inertia of the large aircraft itself can withstand large instantaneous disturbances, it is more important to rely on the automatic stabilization of the advanced flight control system.

The flight control system of this transport aircraft adopts a four-degree digital fly-by-wire flight control system, which makes it have the characteristics of rapid response and flexible control in the entire flight envelope, but the pilot's reaction in the face of ultra-low altitude airdrop tasks is unable to catch up with the speed of the computer, and the pilot will be under tremendous pressure in the face of these tasks, and it is easy to deform or not react, so Huaxing Group began to independently develop such an automatic flight system.

In order to make this transport aircraft have better survivability, the key systems and equipment of the transport aircraft have adopted redundant design and isolation measures, and the design team has deliberately left space on the aircraft to install various defense equipment, and each country can choose according to its own needs.

Airborne defense equipment includes radar alarms, missile launch alarms, chaff strips, tracer bomb dispersors, etc., and even a number of external attachment points are designed under the aircraft, which can be used to install electronic countermeasure pods to further enhance comprehensive defense capabilities.

Of course, the laser weapon system developed by the Defense Group Corporation, a subsidiary of the Huaxing Group, will also be transplanted to the transport aircraft when the technology matures.

Considering the possible ground threats under low-altitude and high-speed flight conditions, the military version of the transport aircraft also leaves a place for the ground anti-collision warning system, and will be equipped with special armor and bulletproof windshield to protect the pilot, while reducing the infrared radiation of the engine and adding flame-retardant and explosion-proof gas to the fuel tank to improve survivability.

Of course, the civilian version of these systems will naturally not be retrofitted.

Airbus, a company of China Fokker, maximizes the reliability and maintainability of transport aircraft by transplanting advanced civil aircraft design concepts, standards and development experience into the R&D process.

The airborne integrated monitoring and fault diagnosis system developed by Huaxing Group for its own products and equipment has been used in aircraft, automobiles and other equipment for a long time, and of course, this transport aircraft will not be absent.

The system can centrally control each monitoring device on the aircraft, display the system fault monitoring information with fault codes, complete the collection, recording and interpretation of engine, auxiliary power unit and other aircraft system performance data, and can also optionally record aircraft structural loads, even including overload, forced landing and total cycle accumulation, so that users can track the real use of aircraft fatigue.

Ground staff can use portable multi-function query terminals to inquire about the on-board integrated monitoring and fault diagnosis system through the connection points inside and outside the aircraft.

The portable multi-function query terminal can inquire about faults at a deeper level, and then collect the relevant information into electronic documents. The information and data queried by the portable terminal can be downloaded to the computer of the ground support station for easy fleet management.

In fact, Huaxing Group began to develop this system in the development process of the high-speed train of China Star, which was to collect data on the bogie and braking system and then predict the time of possible failure, and then this system quickly spread to the product equipment of various subsidiaries of Huaxing Group.

This system also allows Huaxing Group to be one step ahead in product safety and maintenance, and eliminate the "hidden danger of failure" in advance, which has greatly won the trust of customers.

The reason why Zhonghua Fokker has been recognized by airlines in recent years is that it has a very low life-cycle cost and good maintenance, and the engine life of Yonghan Aviation Technology Company is very long, and it is easy to maintain.

When developing this transport aircraft, Zhonghua Fokker also hoped that during the 20-year service period, the grounding period caused by planned maintenance would not exceed the level of 100 days, so the convenience of maintenance was considered when designing some key components, and a modular design that could be quickly disassembled and installed was adopted as much as possible.

Yang Jie learned that the digital prototype of this transport aircraft has been completed by about 40 percent, and the digital prototype will be completed by the end of this year, and he is still very satisfied with such a speed.