There is a good side to everything, and there is often a bad side. The reverse is true.

To Yang Weiping, the advantages of suspending the process of the large-scale development of the western region and shrinking the scale of investment and funds actually outweigh the disadvantages.

The spread is too large, which is equivalent to stretching the battle line too long. From a business point of view, it is equivalent to a huge and heavy burden on the back of Tiangong Group.

Yang Weiping's intention to leverage Huaxia to implement the strategy of large-scale development of the western region ahead of schedule with his own strength is actually a bit too much to take for granted. He always wants to race against time in order to integrate and improve the overall industrial level of Huaxia as soon as possible. It is not wrong for him to want to take advantage of the east wind of the construction of the third line, and it is not wrong to want to establish a core industrial circle of heavy industry in the west. However, the fault is that he overestimated his influence at the highest level of the Central Committee and that he mistakenly believed that the current general environment in China is really based on economic construction.

Now, if we can get out of the whirlpool of domestic political struggle as soon as possible and adjust the strategic deployment of Tiangong Group's investment in China in a timely manner, in the long run, it will actually be beneficial but harmless.

The tree is a big move, and he, Yang Weiping, the tide leader of the new era, should precipitate for a while, and let others seize the opportunity to show more limelight.

China's economic reform is not without him, Yang Weiping will not be able to develop!

Since the central government has no choice but to adhere to the national economic development strategy of putting the east first and then the west, he will honestly stay in the southwestern border areas and concentrate resources with peace of mind to step up efforts to make the border trade economy of Yunnan Province and the economy of the northern Burma region look decent.

With his private financial resources, the economic construction of the western provinces will be fully developed. But. If you only target the southwest border of Yunnan Province and northern Myanmar, whether it is manpower, material resources or financial resources, Tiangong Group is more than enough!

Haste makes waste. Yang Weiping had to admit that he did have an overheated brain before, and even made some mistakes similar to the "Great Leap Forward"!

It is not possible to seize the day and seize the day to "catch up with the Soviet Union and surpass the United States"! This requires the efforts of the whole country in China, the joint efforts of the 1 billion Chinese people, the cohesion of one point of heart, and the efforts of one place, and through 10 or 20 years of hard work, it is possible to achieve this grand goal.

The arrival of He Guodong and Zhou Yuanchao made Yang Weiping deeply reflect on what he had done over the years after returning to China.

I only know that complaining is the work of a coward! When something goes wrong, we can't always find fault with others. You have to think hard about your own problems.

Cooperation between Tiangong Aviation Industry Company and McDonnell Douglas Company of the United States. There is no suspense. Because the U.S. Air Force is determined to win the Y20B Global Overlord.

The development of any new type of military aircraft is time-consuming and costly. Historically, the U.S. Air Force has been developing the C-17 for the longest time in U.S. history, from winning a development contract in 1981 to completing all flight tests in 1995. A total of 14 years have passed; It is the third most expensive military aircraft in the United States. Lost only to the E-3 airborne AWACS and the B-2 stealth bomber.

And the cooperation with Tiangong Aviation Industry Company to develop Y20B can shorten the time for the US Air Force to develop the C-17 alone by at least ten years!

Once the Y20B global hegemony comes out, it will have immeasurable strategic significance for the United States to occupy a dominant position in the current Cold War pattern between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Therefore. Although the US Government clearly knows that Dao Huaxia may raise the level of its aviation industry technology to a new level through this cooperation, it still cannot resist the temptation.

It is important to know that Tiangong Aviation Industry Company is not only in contact with McDonnell Douglas Company, but also with the European Airbus Company and the Soviet Union's Ilyushin Design Bureau.

If the Chinese government is allowed to cooperate with the Soviet Union with the Y20B Global Overlord, this will be an absolutely catastrophic threat to the United States.

In order to ensure that the Y20B global hegemony is not taken away by the Soviets, the U.S. administration and McDonnell Douglas have shown great sincerity in this strategic cooperation to further strengthen the Sino-American honeymoon relationship.

The U.S. government gave the green light to a list of equipment issued by Tiangong Aviation Industry to build the Y20B Global Overlord's six test aircraft, including a prototype.

Yang Weiping has been coveting a large number of precision machinery and equipment belonging to the "Batumi" embargo, such as aviation ultra-precision machine tools, high-precision large-scale multi-axis CNC machining centers, and automated machinery assembly lines, which have been successfully transported from the United States to Huaxia Shanghai Port, and then transferred to Chang'an Tiangong Aviation Science and Technology Industrial Park for installation and commissioning.

In terms of professional technical personnel, McDonnell Douglas sent a large number of aviation experts and senior engineers who were originally scheduled to participate in the C-X planning, and formed a Sino-American joint expert group with Yang Weiping, Ma Fengshan, Wang Chun and other Chinese expert groups, in addition to working together to tackle the production process of Y20B, but also put the two sides on the agenda to cooperate in the research and development of a new high-thrust military turbofan engine project.

It can be said that the cooperation between Tiangong Aviation Industry Company and McDonnell Douglas Company of the United States is the highest and most complete strategic cooperation at the technical level between China and the United States since they entered the honeymoon period.

Many of the small abacus before the US imperialism failed to play the slightest trick in front of the "demon mirror" sacrificed by Yang Weiping.

Although on the surface, this cooperation was carried out in the name of two private enterprises, Tiangong Group and McDonnell Douglas Company, in fact, from the day the cooperation agreement between the two sides was signed, the Ministry of State Security of China and the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States adopted a series of very strict secrecy measures for this cooperation.

The Huaxia military even transferred a division-sized field unit from the Northwest Military Region and deployed it in the periphery of the Tiangong Aviation Science and Technology Industrial Park, and set aside a military restricted area.

This is not a fuss made by the governments of China and the United States, but spy agents from the governments of various countries in the world are eyeing the Y20B Global Overlord jointly developed by China and the United States all the time!

Because, with the participation of McDonnell Douglas in the United States, the Y20B Global Overlord has been optimized and improved again, and even the U.S. Air Force generals have to admit that the Y20B Global Overlord is an unsurpassed classic!

The final finalization parameters of Y20B Global Overlord:

Length: 53 meters

Wingspan: 52 meters

Height: 16.5 meters

Wing area: 368 sq.m

Leading edge sweep angle: 25 degrees

Cargo compartment size: length 27 m * width 5.5 m * height 4 m

Basic empty weight: 120 tons

Maximum load: 80 tons

The maximum take-off weight is 275 tons

Engine thrust: four WS8-B high-bypass ratio turbofans with a maximum thrust of 245 kN

Cruising speed: 900 km/h

Maximum speed: 1000 km/h

Low-altitude airdrop speed: 200~500 km/h

Approach speed: 200 km/h

Practical ceiling: 15,000 meters

Take-off field length: 1500 meters

Length of the landing field: 600 meters (with thrust reversers)

Maximum load range: 6000 km (5% residual fuel)

According to the cooperation agreement signed between Tiangong Aviation Industry Company and McDonnell Douglas Company, the first Y20B Global Overlord prototype will achieve its first flight in mid-October 1982.

For this. McDonnell Douglas of the United States, with capital and equipment plus technical personnel, has a total investment of 2 billion US dollars. Once the Y20B Global Overlord is finalized and put into mass production, the first orders for the US Air Force will be 36 aircraft, and the first batch of orders for the Huaxia Air Force will be 24 aircraft.

The WS8-B military turbofan with high bypass ratio is one of the products of this Huamei technical cooperation. The American Pratt & Whitney Company named this engine PW2042. Compared with the PW2040 and CF6-50D turbofans, its comprehensive performance has been significantly improved.

As for Huaxia's achievements in the field of aviation power, the United States imperialism has chosen comprehensive cooperation in a very pragmatic way when it knows that it is unstoppable.

It is really Baron John Young's research on military aircraft engines that is too bewitching. He often only needs to point out a few directional research skills, which can make the aviation power experts in China and the United States like a surprise of sudden enlightenment.

Especially in terms of aerospace application materials, Yang Weiping is in this Sino-American cooperation. Another lesson for material experts from both China and the United States.

Yang Weiping pointed out. Steel, titanium, and nickel-based alloys should be replaced by resin-based composites, metal (especially titanium) matrix composites, and titanium-aluminum intermetallic compounds in military engines today, which are used to make cryogenic components such as fan/incapsulation casings, fan rotor/stator blades, engine nacelles, and thrust reversers.

Resin matrix composites, metal (titanium, nickel) matrix composites and titanium-aluminum/nickel-aluminum intermetallic compounds replace titanium alloys and nickel-based superalloys, which are used for compressor rotor blades, compressor integral leaf rings, engine low-pressure shafts, compressor stator blades, casings, exhaust nozzles as connecting rods for power cylinders and adjusting sheets and other medium-temperature components.

New superalloys, nickel-aluminum-intermetallic compounds, advanced thermal barrier coatings, and ceramic matrix composites replace high-temperature components such as combustion chambers, turbines, afterburners, and nozzles for nickel-based superalloys.

Through the replacement of these materials, the thrust-to-weight ratio of military aircraft engines can be significantly increased.

Since Huaxia developed the first third-generation nickel-based single-crystal superalloy for turbine blades. With the strong support of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense led by Yang Weiping in the field of aviation materials application research. The single-crystal superalloy developed by 901 has now met the requirements of the fourth generation. The temperature resistance has been increased by 30 degrees. Creep strength, thermal fatigue strength, oxidation resistance and corrosion resistance have been improved to varying degrees.

The powder alloy for turbine disc has also been improved from the first generation of nickel-based powder superalloy developed by 901 to the third generation, and the temperature resistance has been increased from 650 degrees Celsius to more than 750 degrees Celsius.

Thermal barrier coating for high-temperature components. The new plasma spraying thermal barrier coating developed by 901 has been widely used in high-temperature components of military turbofan engines such as WS10, WS8, WS9 and WS12. At present, the fourth-generation ceramic thermal barrier coating and environmental barrier coating with a thermal insulation effect of 167 degrees Celsius have been developed, and the more efficient fifth-generation nano-thermal barrier coating is also being developed.

Ceramic matrix composites have the advantages of low density, high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance and ablation resistance. It is the best material for military turbofan engine combustion chamber/afterburner flame cylinder, turbine rotor/stator blades, afterburner flame stabilizer, exhaust nozzle adjustment sheet and other components. Chang'an Aeronautical Materials Research Center, 901 Institute and other material application research units are concentrating resources on the research of ceramic matrix composite materials reinforced with two-dimensional or three-dimensional fibers, such as ceramic-based composites with increased metal fibers, ceramic matrix composites with increased carbon fibers, and ceramic matrix composites reinforced with ceramic fibers and whiskers.

Yang Weiping is pleased that the central government has always attached great importance to the application of aerospace materials. Even if he no longer serves as director of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, this kind of attention will not be weakened in any way.

The U.S. government also saw a number of breakthroughs made by Huaxia in the field of aerospace materials application research, and knew the development potential of Huaxia's aerospace industry, so it finally made up its mind to let McDonnell Douglas and Tiangong Aviation Industry Co., Ltd. carry out comprehensive technical cooperation in the research and development process of Y20B Global Overlord. (To be continued......)