Chapter 348: Test Flight
When the team arrived in the Soviet Union, it was already the end of September, and the Morozov Flying Yard, located on the outskirts of Moscow in the northern hemisphere, could already feel the slightest cold, but this could not stop the enthusiasm of the technical visit team.
The first and second generations of aviation industry employees of the Republic have more or less gone through the years of brothers and comrades between China and the Soviet Union, and some are even high-achieving students who have returned from studying in the Soviet Union.
Yang Hui is the youngest in this team, and his existence directly pulls down the average age of the entire team by one year, but this does not mean that Yang Hui has no feelings for the Soviet Union, Yang Hui knows the fate of the Soviet Union in a few years, and he naturally has some special feelings for the Soviet Union.
This feeling is a little different from that of other fellow technicians, Yang Hui is more of the Soviet Union's drooling over these good things, and the sense of mission to save these precious technologies.
The Soviet Pilot Institute is relatively large, including several flight test centers, and the L8 anti-tail spin test flight is undertaken by the Morozov Flight Test Institute, which is the only unit in the Soviet Union capable of completing this kind of flight test project.
How awesome is the Morozov Test Flight Institute? To put it simply: his status is the same as that of the Yanliang Test Flight Institute of the Republic, and all the aircraft of the Republic have to fly in Yanliang, and in the same way, the Soviet aircraft have to go through the Monozov Test Flight Institute.
Moreover, the functions of the Morozov Test Flight Institute are not only as simple as test flights, but also have the same functions as the Yanliang Test Flight Institute of the Republic, and the Morozov Test Flight Institute also undertakes the training of test pilots, that is, teaching work, and is a typical scientific research and teaching compound unit.
From here, more than 400 international test pilots were trained, not only Soviet test pilots, but also ace test pilots of the Republic and India in later generations.
Two famous ace test pilots of the Republic in later generations: Lei Qiang and Xu Yongling. They all studied and studied here in 91, and after returning home, they all became the backbone of the Republic's test pilot brigade.
It is here that the two god-level notebooks "Lei Qiang's Notes" in the aviation industry of the Republic enter the most essential part, and it is precisely what Lei Qiang learned and recorded here that caused the sensational effect of Lei Qiang's notes.
Now, the personnel of the aviation industry of the Republic came here, perhaps two or three years in advance.
Yang Hui and his entourage were received by the vice president of the Morozov Test Flight Institute: Robles. A very strict old man. With gray hair, neat clothes, and a rigorous atmosphere, Yang Hui had to take a few more glances at the vice dean.
"Hello, colleagues from the aviation industry of the Republic of China, on behalf of the Morozov Test Flight Institute, I welcome your arrival, and hope that we can have good results of cooperation this time and make our contribution to the normalization of diplomatic relations between our two countries."
Stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, let's come here to cooperate, learn, visit, and communicate, at least we can't offend the other party's technical experts, everyone is polite. Finally got to the point.
After sitting down, there was no longer any administrative or diplomatic affairs, and the diplomatic and administrative personnel were all interested in exchanging "feelings" with their corresponding Soviet personnel.
After Robles put forward the problem of cooperation between the two sides, the chief designer of Shiping put forward the plan and requirements for cooperation.
"We are developing a junior and intermediate jet trainer and now need to find cooperation on the anti-tailspin flight test project of the trainer, and we think the Morozov test flight institute is the most suitable partner at the moment."
While Shi Ping was talking, Robles had already opened Shi Ping and handed over the information, more than ten pages of brief introduction information. Some publicly available information about L8 was displayed, and Robles was also surprised to see these technical materials.
It is also not that the USSR did not develop a trainer aircraft of the K8 class. The entire Warsaw Pact Group's training aircraft are developed and produced by the Czech Republic, and the Czech L39 training aircraft is at the same level as the K8.
Robles remembers that when he participated in the test flight program of the L39 trainer in '69, it was a time of burning passion, and the performance of the L39, the second-generation jet trainer, is hard to forget.
Twenty years have passed. The L39 has also undergone many improvements, and Robles has been paying attention to the progress of the L39, thinking that the L39 coach should be one of the best, and if he takes 10,000 steps back, he should also be the first on a par with the British Eagle trainer.
But now it's time to see this new aircraft, which is not named the L8 trainer. Robles knew that the L39, on which he had always had high hopes, was lagging behind, and that the L8 trainer, designed by the Soviet Union's student of the Republic of China, had significantly surpassed the L39.
Thinking of the social changes in the Czech Republic in recent years, Robles is a little worried about the L39, a mainstream training aircraft, and may need to introduce a strong competitor to the L39.
Robles, who put down the information, has made up his mind: "This is indeed an excellent aircraft, in terms of aerodynamic shape, engine selection is a very reasonable design, from the Markey company to help you do the tail cyclone tunnel test data shows that this is a very, very good junior and intermediate training aircraft, even it is far better than the L39 training aircraft." ”
Hearing that the vice president of the Morozov Test Flight Institute said that the L8 trainer aircraft was better than the L39 trainer plane, which ruled the entire Warsaw Pact Air Force, Shi Ping was very proud as the chief designer of the L8 trainer aircraft, and at the same time was a little puzzled.
Shi Ping's puzzled look was seen by Robles, and the old man guessed the situation as well, and explained with a smile the reason for his conclusion.
"This is a fact, I have followed up almost all the test flight projects of the L39 trainer aircraft, and I am very clear about the performance of the L39 trainer aircraft, and I said that your aircraft is better than the L39 trainer aircraft, and there is no moisture at all. Now the question is, how are you going to work with us on the tail spin flight test of this aircraft? ”
Morozov was unwilling to waste too much time on the comparison of L8 and L39 training aircraft, and directly shifted the topic to the cooperation method of tail spin flight test of L8 training aircraft, and wanted to cooperate in the tail spin flight test project, which was decided by the top management of the two sides, but how to cooperate is a problem that needs to be discussed urgently.
For example, Shi Ping put forward Hongdu's plan: "Our Hongdu company believes that because our Hongdu company has made a large number of tail spin characteristics prediction according to the tail cyclone tunnel test data we have obtained, we still hope to purchase several sets of anti-tail rockets, which will be tested by our test pilots, and at the same time ask experts from the Morozov Test Flight Institute to assist." ”
From the point of view of Hongdu, the best plan is to purchase anti-tailspin equipment, and the Republic itself to test the flight and ask Morozov to test the flight with the assistance of the test flight experts. As long as it is achieved, this kind of almost hand-to-hand teaching program, with the ability to get pregnant with a rabbit's gaze, will definitely succeed in stealing the teacher.
But from another point of view, Morozov is not a fool to test the flight institute, to put things out
It's just a matter of selling to the republic, what else can this call cooperation? In particular, let the Republic test pilots do this project, which can almost be regarded as handing over the core technology of the anti-tailspin test to the Republic.
After Robles listened to the plan proposed by Hongdu, he immediately figured out the hidden way here, the key technology of anti-tail spin test flight, Morozov Test Flight Institute is absolutely in his own hands, and the technology is passed on?
That's absolutely impossible: "This can't be done, if you want to cooperate with the tail spin test flight, you can only fly the aircraft to us for test flight, and we have complete the test flight and test equipment here, and we can complete the anti-tail spin test flight of this aircraft with quality and quantity." ”
In this way, Robles proposed a cooperation plan based on their own position, which was too different from the plan proposed by Hongdu, and it was a world of difference.
In the middle of the nonsense, the time passed at noon, and Yang Hui and several other non-L8 trainer aircraft R&D and test flight personnel seemed a little bored, found the person in charge of the Soviet side to receive the entire delegation, and put forward Yang Hui's idea (to be continued......