Chapter 364: Anti-tailspin test flight
Weapons delivery experiments take a relatively long time, and no conclusions can be reached for a while and a half, and good news and bad news will not be known until the time is up, and it is better to do something other meaningful when there is such time.
Taking advantage of the sufficient time, there are not many large projects in the southwest science and industry, Yang Hui combined with the mature experience of the state-owned military enterprises in later generations, and improved the internal system of the entire southwest science and industry.
Major surgeries are not easy to move for a while, but minor surgeries have been continuous, and they are still the kind of measures that have a relatively quick effect. Constantly rectify the interior, and wait until the Jian-74 weapons test project team led by the chief engineer comes back, and the new project can be launched.
At a time when Yang Hui was rectifying the interior and strengthening the Southwest Science and Industry itself, Hongdu, another aircraft research and development unit also in the south of the Republic, was very lively.
The experts and flight test team from the Morozov Test Flight Institute of the Soviet Union, after half a year of test flight running-in, finally pulled the progress to the tail spin test flight project of the L8 trainer aircraft, which made everyone wait too long.
The first tailspin test flight was more grand than the first flight of the L8 aircraft, and such a strange situation was not without reason: because the army did not give a definite purchase order during the first flight, Hongdu did not invite the military leaders.
This is Hongdu's brain, and the first flight is reluctant to be the largest customer in China to come and see. Of course, Hongdu's dead brain is not without precedent, after Hongdu's six planes dismounted, there were leaders of the army who spoke for Hongdu, and when they saw that Hongdu had no more projects, they planned to find a project for Hongdu to do.
This has changed the strong five demons and twin-engine turbojet 6 engines to single-engine Spey 202 engines, which not only revitalizes Hongdu, but also makes full use of the dozens of original British Spey engines that are placed in the Hongqi factory to eat ashes. I have to say that this idea and the starting point are good.
But Hong Du is just brainless, after hearing this idea. actually concocted a "feasibility study on changing the power system of the Qiang-5 aircraft to a single-engine Spey 202 engine", which explained that this plan is absolutely playable from all aspects.
This is simply a naked slap in the face to the leader. Kindly, I saw that you didn't have a project, and I pulled a project for you to do, and after you actually barabba, you came to the conclusion that this project is not feasible.
Treating people's kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs, or a dog biting Lu Dongbin is just not flexible anyway, so Hong Du missed a good opportunity. If Yang Hui had operated this matter at that time, he would definitely have been able to give a completely different ending.
Technically speaking, it is too difficult to strengthen the five Gaisby 202, but it is not impossible, the big deal is to redesign. There are things like the Tu-22 eyecup improvement process Tu 22M3, not to mention the bumpy research and development road of the Su-27 to overturn and restart, and it is not a big problem to completely overturn and change the magic.
After the five strong horses were dismounted, the feat of Chief Lu leading more than a dozen technicians and workers to make a prototype has always been a place for Hongdu to be proud of, but now he has no courage back then.
The Republic already has a fine tradition of magically changing various types of weapons, and Yang Hui does not believe that he will not be able to change an excellent ground attack aircraft, and it is best to do a good job in this project and use it to replace the original old and unbearable Qiang-5 aircraft on a large scale.
In this way, there will be no previous face. After the arrival of the republic in the new century, although the entire country's navy and air force aviation units are being reequipped with third-generation aircraft on a large scale, the Qiang-5 still does not die and has always held the front-line position.
As for using the flying leopard to replace the strong five. This is a completely unreliable plan, the Flying Leopard is a fighter-bomber, and it really can't be done by playing ultra-low-altitude ground attack. The ultra-low altitude on land is not made by a real flying leopard.
If you do it like this, you will naturally have no good fruit to eat. The last face of the Republic Flying Leopard plane crashes are often accidents, and most of them are caused by the air force guys. Always thinking about flying ultra-low-altitude surprise attacks, and even dive bombing. The most outrageous thing is that it crashed during the Sino-Russian military exercise, which is simply a loss of face abroad.
Compared with the Air Force's use of the Flying Leopard as an ultra-low-altitude ground attack aircraft, which has caused a series of man-made operation accidents, the Navy is much more comfortable and safe when using the Flying Leopard. Equipped with supersonic anti-ship missiles, it is extremely simple to go directly to the enemy warship, even if it is to do ultra-low-altitude flight. The undulating terrain at sea is too different from that on land, and the environment is too friendly!
Most of the crashes of the Air Force's Flying Leopards were carried out during the mission of ground attack aircraft, and the planes flew lower than the other, and when the Flying Leopards were designed, they were only used by the Navy to launch missiles, and they were powerless against the complex ultra-low-altitude terrain on land.
The flying leopard can indeed be equipped with a terrain tracking system, and the computer can accurately control the ultra-low-altitude flight, but this is not of much use, the aerodynamic shape of the flying leopard body design, and the response speed of the movable rudder surface, it has long been destined to be just an endurance leopard with a large range and a large bomb load.
Flying at super low altitudes, doing surprise attacks, and adding mud is really not its job
The topic is far away, back to Hongdu's anti-tail spin test flight, this anti-tail spin test flight because the army has already established the L8 training aircraft project, so it is natural to make up for the first flight did not invite the military boss to come to see the aircraft's 'fault', some military leaders drooled when they saw this beautiful training aircraft.
On the other side are the staff of the Markey Company, because the Markey Company and Hongdu are cooperating on the modernization project of the J-5 aircraft, and the Markey Company has sent a large number of technicians, which are the mainstay of the Markey Company. It is not too normal to participate in the research and development of training aircraft, the main business of Markey.
These technicians, who clearly know the quality of a training aircraft, got the news of Hongdu's L8 training aircraft from Maki Company as early as possible. When Markey and Hongdu cooperated to conduct an anti-tail cyclone tunnel test on the L8, they got a lot of information about the L8 trainer.
Markey has long been able to feel the strong threat brought by the L8 trainer aircraft, especially when the first Dubai Airshow, Hongdu and Egypt signed a super big order in the training aircraft project industry, Markey is even more frightened.
This L8 trainer is to force a veteran trainer manufacturer like the dignified Markey company to a dead end! Now Markey would rather choose to deepen cooperation in the improvement of the Qiang-5 aircraft, or even sacrifice some interests, rather than cooperate with Hongdu L8 tail spin test flight.
But in the end, I didn't count the hookup between Hongdu and Morozov Test Flight Institute, and now we are going to start the anti-tailspin test flight, and those technicians who were originally doing the work of strengthening the five improvements in Hongdu will naturally make a cameo appearance as an incompetent spy.
A large group of people were saddled with the orders of the senior management of Markey, and they wanted to use this opportunity to evaluate the performance of the L8 trainer aircraft, so that Markey could study follow-up countermeasures.
So these second-in-command 'appraisers' discussed with Hongdu early, and after getting the permission of Chief Lu in charge of the Qiangwu improvement project, they came to their own positions, although they were not allowed to watch at close range, but these guys still found the best position and set up long guns and short guns.
People look outside the place you specify, and there is no violation, and the identity of these guys is not simple, and the improvement of the strong five has to watch the performances of these guys, so they acquiesce to these people taking pictures outside the wall. According to later statistics from relevant people, this should be the earliest professional wall-climbing party in the Republic, and it can be regarded as the first of a generation.
Not to mention these super professional wall climbers, they don't have the skills to make people pregnant with a rabbit's glare, so they don't care about him, what to do, test the plane when it's time to test it.
Test pilot Khonolev boarded the plane again as usual, the Slavs were tall and slightly crowded in the cockpit of the L8 trainer plane, but it was not unacceptable, the trainer plane, it was like this, everyone understood.
Despite having flown the L8 trainer many times, Khonolev still has a soft spot for this aircraft, and since his first time on this trainer, he has fallen in love with a flexible, user-friendly, and easy-to-operate trainer aircraft. (To be continued.) )