Chapter 625: How to transport is the problem

Of course, even if it is not for the carrier aircraft of the An-71 early warning aircraft, Yang Hui will also start to play the idea of the early warning system on the An-71 early warning aircraft in the near future, and this will be a little more selective, so he will put it down for the time being.

In any case, in general, there is no need to change the development route of the Yun-7 series, and it is good to develop the Xinzhou series of regional vortex award passenger aircraft step by step according to history.

Walking outside the hangar, is a hot infrastructure construction site, where a factory for the production of large passenger aircraft is being built, so a larger plant area is needed.

This time, in order to make the construction of the new factory more modern, we also specially inspected the plant construction plan of foreign counterparts, and then combined with the design of the production line plan.

"The new factory needs to establish an assembly line, and the spacious interior of the plant can allow our new production line to be completed smoothly, and also leave enough room for our subsequent transformation!"

The transformation of the production line, in fact, Yang Hui does not like to renovate the production line of MPC75, and the time when this production line is completed and really runs should be about 95 years.

In 95 years, the old-fashioned fixed one-stop production line was still used, which is completely sorry for the storage of Yang Hui's reborn people, even if you can't use the continuous mobile production line, then the pulsating production line must always have it!

Moreover, the pulsating production line is not too high-end things, as long as the production management is in place, these can be done. Why was Boeing able to build the world's first pulsating production line in 2000 and use it for the production of Apache helicopter gunships? We can't do it with United Passenger Aircraft.

Boeing, these guys, in the 90s, wanted to do a continuous mobile production line for the production of class cars in one step. In the end, I found that it didn't work, and I had to make a transition first. The next best thing to do is the pulsating production line.

Now, the United Airliner Company will tell the world that the most advanced production line technology of the aviation industry is in the Republic, and the Republic is going to exert its strength in this field in which the old capitalist countries of the West have an advantage.

Pointing to the plant under construction, Yang Hui was full of spirit: "Maybe you still don't understand why the new plant is designed like this, but soon you will understand that a new aircraft production model will be completed in United Passenger Aircraft Company!" ”

As he walked forward, Yang Hui pointed to some special places and said to the people behind him what precautions he had, with a red safety helmet. I don't know, I really think he is the leader of an army of contractors.

After the completion of the production line, subsystems from all over the country and all over the world converge here, and then through the pulsating production line of the world's first hop on the aircraft, a steady stream of aircraft will be assembled into airplanes and fly to all over the world.

This is also a stop-and-go along the way, after a big circle around the entire construction site, it is considered to be the provisional administrative area, here, the person in charge of the German MBB side raised a question that Yang Hui did not expect.

"We've got to solve this problem. It is impossible that the future production models will be all produced in Factory 172 like these test aircraft, and the MPC75 will be produced as a product of the segmented production model, and other subcontractors must produce it! ”

While saying this, the German chief engineer with a Hitlerian style sprayed and smeared stars. It seems that it can't take it anymore.

Pointing to a photo on the table: "General Manager Yang, you must know this plane, right?" Airbus is able to subcontract the aircraft globally because of this aircraft. Let different fuselage segments be produced thousands of kilometers apart, or even tens of thousands of kilometers apart, and we ......"

He waved his hand to show that he understood. There is no need to continue, Yang Hui knew what it was the first time he saw the plane in the photo. As a logistics and transportation link for Airbus' global production, the "Bubble Fish" transport aircraft is indispensable.

If you want to talk about the Bubble Fish transport aircraft, it is necessary to say that in the 60s of the 20th century, NASA's Apollo program needed to transport the Saturn 5 rocket body to the Canaveral launch site in Florida.

The U.S. Air Force Surplus Management Office took out the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser propeller aircraft, greatly enlarged the upper part of the cabin like a blow, and then used it to carry large parts weighing up to 20 tons.

At the same time, they also equipped the Boeing B377 with four turboprop engines, which have more power, and this aircraft has the code name Bubble Fish because it resembles a tropical bubble fish.

Later, several more of these aircraft were purchased by Airbus, which were used to transport the various segments of Airbus aircraft produced in many European countries, and finally completed at Airbus headquarters in France, and for this reason, it is said that every Airbus aircraft was conceived on Boeing aircraft.

Airbus had bubble fish for transportation, and even later adopted the same design on the basis of the A300 and transformed the Beluga transport aircraft.

Now the question is, what does the United Airliner Corporation use to transport segments? Is it by train?

It is undeniable that it is a good and economical option to transport by train, but the problem is precisely that the MPC75 is now too large, and the internal width of the cabin is as high as 3.4 meters, so how big does it have to be to calculate the diameter of the aircraft body?

In the railway system of the republic, the tunnel culverts are 3.35 meters in size, and the space system of the republic, which is stronger, must also compromise here, and the maximum diameter of the launch vehicle must be controlled below 3.35 meters, so that the rocket can be transported by rail.

How is it possible for the MPC75 to transport segmented components via the Guò railway? It can only be calculated with the last solution: air freight!

And if you want to talk about air freight, then what is used to transport it? Buying Boeing's Bubble Fish transport plane, or Airbus' beluga whale, which is about to start development?

The reason why Airbus was able to get the Bubble Fish transport plane back then was because this transport aircraft was not a Boeing patent, but only a modification of the body of the remaining management office of the US Air Force with a Boeing aircraft.

Now is the time for the embargo imposed by Western countries on the republic, will this kind of aircraft for transporting super-large components be sold to the republic? It's impossible to think about.

As for the Airbus Beluga transport aircraft, I am afraid it is impossible to sell, after all, the MPC75 can already be regarded as the opponent of the Airbus A319, no matter how stupid people are, they will not do this kind of thing!

Frowning and thinking about how to solve this problem, this is a problem that has not been considered before, if it is not properly handled, the MPC75 project may be ......

After thinking about it carefully, Yang Hui found that there are only two plans that are feasible: "I have two plans, the first is to develop a transport aircraft similar to Bubble Fish on the basis of the current four-engine oil six, which is technically very feasible!" ”

As soon as I heard that the H-6 was going to be improved, the 603 Institute here was the first to be interested, especially the 172 factory, which seemed to be quite interesting!

Without waiting for others to express their opinions, Yang Hui said the second option again: "But I personally prefer the second option, Tongguò rents the Soviet Union's An-22 transport aircraft to transport super-large parts, with the cargo space of this aircraft 4.4 meters wide and 4.4 high, it will not be a problem to temporarily use it to transport our MPC75 segment." ”

The An-22 transport aircraft, this thing is indeed a Soviet military transport aircraft, but this aircraft has also been delivered dozens of aircraft for use in civil aviation, since it is a Soviet civil aviation aircraft, there will be no problem in leasing transport aircraft segments.

Or, Yang Hui is more optimistic about the collapse of the Soviet Union immediately, using the more than ten An-124 in Ukraine to transport, which is the most cost-effective and safe solution, after all, the safety of the An-22 aircraft is not very good. (To be continued.) )