Chapter 23 Freighter Orders [2 Updates]
I don't know how many more I can explode, so let's look at it.
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The military often has some small batches of expedited goods or other materials to transport, and sometimes it also needs to transport some very important military equipment, so a transport aircraft with a huge cargo capacity is very important. Of course, it is more important that the transport aircraft be resistant. , otherwise it's not fun to fall to the ground while driving, especially when you fall to the ground during a war, it's really fun.
And in order to balance all kinds of performance, the military generally requires turboprop engines, not turbofan engines. This required a series of redesigns of the aircraft to withstand the drastic mechanical changes.
Each design of an aircraft is a very complex project, a small aircraft may be finalized in a few months, and the remaining problems are not very important to solve in production, but if it is a large aircraft, it can only be designed for a few years first, and all the big problems can be eliminated before they can be sent to the factory for mass production.
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The military people brazenly approached Liu's Aviation Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a civilian company, and made a request, an order to be precise. This is what the military later used dozens... The very classic Fly-FMA510 "Super Hercules" military tactical transport aircraft, although this transport aircraft is designed with reference to the shape of the Lockheed C-130, but in fact, the internal configuration is even more advanced than the most advanced C-130. Year.
Even many years after the FMA510 was decommissioned, the military continued to use an improved version of the FMA511. The very fuel-efficient FMA510 can be said to hold up the future for dozens of years. In the middle of the year.. Common.. And.. The girder of the country's tactical transport.
Later historians believe that without the FMA-510 "Super Hercules" and FMA-520 "Super Millipedes", there would not have been a total of people at that time. And.. The prosperity of the country.
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Faced with a large number of orders from the military, Liu Fei was fighting in his heart. If you accept orders from the military now, you can have the military help to expand your factory, which can save a lot of money and ensure the quality. But this will make themselves the enemy of Boeing Airbus, even if they have a good relationship with their top leaders, but this will not affect the commercial competition on the surface.
But if it's altogether.. And.. With these planes owned by the state, maybe the combat effectiveness of the army will be greatly improved, and there will be no little devils to fish in the future. Fish.. Island or something like that.
Liu Fei said that the new cargo aircraft is now being designed, and if the military is in a hurry, it can first get three FCA610-200F back for testing, and charge according to the cost price. Because no one wanted these in the first place, Liu Fei produced them and waited for the order, so if the military took them, it would be better, and he didn't have to go to great lengths to find the next house to buy them.
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A few weeks after returning to university, the military sent someone to submit a list of suggestions for improvement to Liu Fei, and Liu Fei saw that he did have these problems, and he was preparing to correct them, so he accepted these criticisms very happily.
The improved 200F was favored by military test pilots, who believed that the aircraft was much better than the current Y-8-9, and unanimously recommended that this be one of the important strategic transport forces in the increase of orders. Although the voyage is only 8,000 kilometers, the transportation of flower growers does not exceed the national border, so these voyages are enough. Most importantly, they can see that there is still a lot of room for improvement, such as the possibility of replacing the aircraft with more fuel-efficient engines.
So the military found Liu Fei again, but Liu Fei did not rush to accept their order, but began to sell them his new products.
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"This is our company's latest yet-to-be-designed FMA510 'Super Hercules' tactical transport aircraft. This is our company's latest tactical transport aircraft designed to replace the Y-8-Y-9. Thanks to the use of a turboprop engine, it is capable of reaching a maximum speed of Mach 0.80, or 980 km/h. At the same time, the engine room can be equipped with up to 2,800 kilowatts of power, which should be converted into an AWACS aircraft.
Because it is mainly used as a transport aircraft, we mainly strengthen its transportation capacity, we designed for it 30 rear wheels in the case of military tires, the maximum cargo capacity can reach about 37 tons to 38 tons. Or take a maximum of two hundred heavily armed paratroopers, or some light tanks. Grams and other goods that can be put in. It is not a problem to put a few missiles after receiving the modification, because the aircraft is very stable.
And this one is the FMA520 'Super Millipede' strategic transport aircraft that has been finalized, which is the latest generation of strategic transport aircraft we have designed, and after learning all the lessons of the previous Eagle Sauce, we will no longer design the kind of structure for it that is not very stable. A large number of triangular structures and new aviation steels have been used on it, and the aircraft has been fully rigidized except where steel cannot be used.
The aircraft uses the world's most advanced turbofan engines and is capable of flying 10,000 kilometers with 275 tons of cargo, or 12,000 kilometers with 500 paratroopers heavily armed and carrying heavy equipment. We have reserved 4,000 kilowatts of power in this cabin, which can be amplified to 6,000 kilowatts if necessary, but this will reduce the speed of the aircraft......"
Listening to Liu Fei's gushing introduction, the military people became more and more unsure whether to buy some of these two planes, so they called their superiors and asked their superiors to take down these planes. Now that the flower growers have only withdrawn more than one million troops, the pressure on military spending has been relieved a lot. But this also made the deterrent power of the Chinese army begin to decline, so it is necessary to find a few things that can support the scene for themselves. This strategic transport aircraft, of course, is the best thing, economical and affordable. Because this thing can be modified to become a super-giant strategic bomber, this thing is the best choice.
As a result, the military placed an order for 100 FCA610-200F military models, and at the same time an additional 20 orders of interest for FMA510 and FMA520. In the case of good use, the military will further increase the number of orders in order to gain greater transportation throughput.
An important reason why the military taught Liu Fei these orders is that Hafei is now in decline, because the supporting facilities cannot keep up, and it is difficult to develop a state-of-the-art transport aircraft. So Liu Fei, an emerging boy, got the original exclusive orders from those old factories.