Chapter 958: The Shadow of the Aviation Industry
The air show on the public day of the Paris Air Show is the most favorite and most anticipated program for the audience. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It is also the favorite of major aviation and aerospace manufacturers, and they can create a lot of topics in this link.
For example, long before the public day air show, Boeing released a video of their 787-9 "vertical takeoff" on the runway to warm up for the Paris Air Show.
As soon as the video was released, it immediately caused a frenzy among aviation enthusiasts, and when the plane raised its head like a cobra, it was like a cobra maneuvering again.
And Randy Neville, Boeing's chief pilot, was holding back his energy before the performance.
The former US Air Force test pilot is arguably one of the top pilots in the entire world.
After being hired by Boeing at a high price, he has performed the difficult maneuvers of the 787 at air shows many times.
The full name of Boeing 787 is Boeing787 Dreamliner, and its alias is Dreamliner, Dreamliner.
Boeing has been desperately promoting the concept that the 787 is the best and best civil aircraft in the world, and it simply lives up to the dreams of any civil aircraft.
It's flawless, it's like everyone's best, it's beautiful and noble.
But it can also be wild and capable of anything, if desired.
Randy is the brilliant pilot who makes it do anything.
And Randy has been looking forward to making this dream model shine again at the world's most influential air show, the Paris Air Show.
Randy believes that no one can stop his light, not even the Silence and the Mechs.
No matter how good the Silence is, with tens of millions of tickets, can you afford to sit on it?
No matter how strong the mecha god is, can you afford to build it at a cost of tens of billions of dollars?
But the Boeing 787, which can be bought for only a few hundred million dollars, can take you around the world.
Sensible people should go after their Dreamliner, not some ethereal thing.
And the so-called "technical orientation" of the lazy god system?
Seeing the outrageous words that Nan Ming said, Randy wanted to hum him.
In this world, there is no company that can easily get more than the world's tens of hundreds of years of technology, technology is gradual, any kind of technology from research and development to maturity to popularization, is a long process.
How is it possible to make technology that others can't even copy?
Throughout the day, Randy had a sense of uneven depression lingering in his heart.
He wasn't a technician, he was a pilot, he had test-piloted many prototypes of airplanes, many of which had gone on to make illustrious history, he was one of America's premier test pilots, and he was hired by Boeing for a staggering eight-figure annual salary.
What he says should be the truth!
Lazy God Technology is not good, Boeing is the strongest commercial aviation company!
That's right!
The more Randy thought about it, the more he felt that he was right, and he walked with his head held high.
Passing by, many people saw him and got out of the way.
"It's Randy!"
"That's Randy, that's that Randy from Boeing!"
In the voice, there is reverence, fear, and some salute.
Randy squinted at them out of the corner of his eye, some of them were his juniors, some of them were even former students he had taught, and some of them were test pilots of unknown small aircraft manufacturers.
Boeing is the presence at the top of the aviation world, and among these pilots, he is the uncrowned king.
With this momentum, Randy rushed into the bathroom, and the upcoming performance had almost taken the performance of the 787 to the extreme, almost all the things that could be disassembled in the cabin were disassembled, the fuel tank was empty, and only the minimum amount of oil that could complete the performance was loaded, and even this little weight in the bladder was an unbearable burden for Randy.
In Randy's words, extreme flying shows are like dancing on the tip of a knife, and the weight of a little hair on the tip of the knife can make a completely different difference.
Randy is not a very easy person to get close to, so his two co-pilots have also developed a habit of going with him to clear the inventory before each air show.
In the smoking room next to the restroom, several pilots from other airlines were smoking, and Randy saw a group of people who were clearly civilians, men and women, young and old, gathering there and giggling.
Seeing Randy, the men just glanced at it and giggled again.
"It's the Russians. ”
"Folk aerobatic team. ”
The two co-pilots don't know if they're reminding each other or reporting to Randy.
Today there are more than 20 civilian pilots, conducting helicopter formation flight shows.
Randy has always looked down on formation flights, is there anything other technical besides aesthetics?
He turned and walked towards the entrance of the men's restroom, but he almost collided with a few people.
A few of the Oriental faces stepped sideways, looking at him with a little surprise and a little excitement.
"It's Randy from Boeing!" a man in a pilot's uniform whispered.
Whether it is Boeing or Randy, the pronunciation in various languages is actually the same, and Randy understands it, he raised his head and snorted through his nostrils.
"Amazing?" Xiao Youbin asked in confusion. He is engaged in aerospace, so he doesn't understand it very well.
"Well, it's basically the king of the test flight world. Next to him, Mr. Xie scratched his head and explained.
The pilot next to him scratched his head and sighed: "The income is hundreds of times that of mine." ”
"Mr. Xie, when will our big plane also perform a flight show at the Paris Air Show. ”
The air show, in fact, is very tightly arranged, and not everyone can perform it.
Even those private air show teams were able to perform at the Paris Air Show because they formed a formation with a record number of helicopters.
There is no doubt that the domestic large aircraft that has just started does not have this honor.
The pilot's eyes looked through the glass curtain wall at the Boeing 787 parked on the tarmac outside, and through the wings of the 787, he could also see the large domestic aircraft parked in the distance.
Although it is called a large domestic aircraft, it is actually only half the length and half the capacity of the 63-meter-long 787, and it is far from comparable to the performance and comfort.
From a distance, it seems to be a poor ugly duckling suppressed under the wings of a white swan-like 787.
"Yes. Mr. Xie smiled.
In the next second, a huge shadow suddenly appeared in the sky.
The Silence, which is twice as long as 787 and nearly ten times its size, is falling from the sky.
The shadow enveloped 787 in its entirety and slowly landed on the runway.
The pilot looked up at the Silence, which was as beautiful as a leaf, and his face was full of reverence.
Randy, who came out of the toilet with his pants, saw this scene and cursed hatefully: "xxxx!" (To be continued.) )