After sending off the two German salesmen, Yang Hui still probably understood the situation, this is probably a problem that Embraer is already planning to develop a medium-sized transport aircraft by itself, or maybe there is no relevant plan on the Brazilian side at first, but after the Germans came to sell. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Brazilians can think that the Germans can develop their own medium-sized transport aircraft, so why does Brazil, which is not weak in the field of aviation manufacturing, have to import foreign transport aircraft? Why can't we develop it ourselves in Brazil?

This kind of thinking is somewhat similar to the kind of sticks, third brothers, and local chicken countries twenty years later: since rabbits can develop stealth fighters, then we can too, which is a kind of meaning.

Although the analogy may be a little inappropriate, for example, Embraer Airlines can indeed develop a medium-sized transport aircraft after its own efforts, but at this time, Yang Hui really couldn't think of what to use to describe it, so he made this decision.

As for whether Yang Hui can persuade Brazil to give up the idea of independent research and development and instead participate in the C320 transport aircraft project, he actually has some preliminary ideas, which probably depends on whether the Brazilians take the bait or not.

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The sale of the C320 to Brazil is not imminent, and this is the time when the Brazilian Navy conducts the first lightning carrier-based aircraft catapult take-off test, which is absolutely indispensable!

The entire test was carried out near the coastline of Brazil, and the aircraft carrier was only less than 10 nautical miles away from its home port, and Yang Hui and others had already stood at the designated position on the aircraft carrier.

The republic of the northern hemisphere is in the harsh winter season at this time, but Brazil in the southern hemisphere is indeed a hot summer, and at noon, the sun is also quite exciting, but this still can't stop the curiosity and excitement of Yang Hui and the entourage, especially the three from the pilot captain class, that is really intent, I can't wait to go directly to the catapult operation area over there to observe it up close.

patted his shoulder and signaled not to be too excited: "Actually, there is no need to be too maneuverable, we can make this carrier-based aircraft by ourselves, there is nothing unusual." Although the steam catapult looks very high-tech, but now the naval test station has also built our own catapult a long time ago, and it is said that the developer of the catapult has been improved and overhauled according to the problems exposed in the tests in the past few years, and it should be about to mature. ”

This is really not Yang Hui bragging, the navy in order to support the development of lightning, gritted its teeth in China to build a steam catapult that was not technically mature at that time, and then the shipborne lightning in the country at the same time as the catapult test, in fact, also carried out various tests on the catapult, so a large number of problems were exposed, which further accelerated the maturity of the entire catapult project.

In fact, if you really want to talk about these things, these three people who were born as pilots and captains of the captain class and will definitely be aircraft carrier captains in the future are also very clear in their hearts, and they are quite sensitive to the development of the Republic in the aircraft carrier industry.

"We all know what Mr. Yang said, when we talk about this, we still have to thank you AVIC Southwest is, if there is no lightning carrier-based aircraft project, let alone catapults, I am afraid that China will not be able to make up its mind whether to catapult or slide, let alone say anything about the maturity of catapult technology."

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After a few words like this, the loudspeaker of the bridge sent a message, and it was known that the plane was about to begin ejection tests.

At this time, everyone was directly quiet, and the cylinder of the steam catapult also continued to have some steam leaking out slightly, but these were not in the way, and they were all normal.

At this time, the staff on the deck also retreated quickly, the pilots were already ready, and the lightning fighter also started the engine early, and constantly emitted high-temperature gas backwards through the tail nozzle, all of which looked so mechanical beauty in Yang Hui's eyes!

Brazil's aircraft carrier command system is based on the British and American, so the deck ejection command staff, that is, the ejection chief, is also an American style with the front foot bent downward, the back foot straight to the ground squatting, and then the final visual inspection to check the condition of the aircraft, and then the right hand is firmly forward. Immediately afterwards, the catapult monitoring dispatcher also confirmed that the catapult was working properly and was in a state that could be ejected, and repeated the same position to confirm that the aircraft could be ejected.

With the start of the catapult, the steel rope that wraps the lightning landing gear in the form of a slingshot, and the lightning landing gear is tightly wrapped around the lightning landing gear and slides forward quickly, which is only less than 3 seconds, in that short less than 100 meters of catapult length, the carrier-based lightning fighter quickly accelerates from 0 to the specified take-off speed of 240, so how big is the acceleration here, naturally you can have a slightly clearer concept.

As for the question of how to operate the pilot sitting in the lightning fighter, this is too simple, all they need is to sit on the ejection seat, hold the fixed armrest tightly with both hands, and all take-off operations during the period are automatically completed by the aircraft, and once the pilot thinks that the ejection take-off failed, then he can pull the ejection ring by himself to achieve a real zero altitude (sea level altitude) ejection escape.

At this time, the people on the bridge who watched the catapult take-off test also burst into warm applause, because at this time, the lightning fighter that was ejected out had been flying steadily forward, and even because the lightning ejected out of the ejection was in an unloaded state, there was not even the slightest drop in height after the ejection took off, and the whole process was completed in the field of vision monitoring of everyone.

"See, now the first catapult take-off is successful, which not only means that our nose landing gear can withstand the instantaneous impact of the catapult, but also means that we have time-consuming and laborious, and the automatic catapult take-off system specially developed for carrier-based lightning fighters can be used normally, which shows that our work is not a problem."

As the chief designer, Wu Binglin is now the happiest, although the plane has not yet completed the landing test, but at least the current ejection test has been successfully completed, which proves that more than half of the efforts of the team he led have not been in vain, and after passing the actual shipborne test, this is finally a little relieved.

However, while being happy, there are still some disappointments, at least in the current view of Chief Wu, the development of shipborne lightning has not completely reached the world level.

"To say that this take-off can be completed normally, but the connection between the landing gear and the catapult of this aircraft is still too old after all, which is obviously a technology that has lagged behind the international level for more than ten years, but to let us continue to use this new carrier-based aircraft, my chief designer is really heartbroken!" (To be continued.) )