Chapter 34: Dawn Type 1 (II)
About ten minutes later, the car pulled up to a vacant lot in front of a tall factory. In front www.biquge.info of the factory building, nearly 100 old people in blue overalls stood silently, looking at the two cars, there were expectations, indifference, and doubts.
Jumping out of the car, Zhang Feng stood in front of everyone, clapped his hands, and after attracting everyone's attention, he said loudly: "Uncles and aunts, uncles and aunts, hello everyone." My name is Zhang Feng, and I am a scientific researcher engaged in the research and development of aero engines. ”
"Just now in the car, I chatted with Director Zeng, and I have a general understanding of your requirements, so I will tell you why I bought the aircraft factory. My father was in the aerospace industry, I grew up in a military factory since I was a child, and my childhood dream was to be an astronaut and fly into space with a space shuttle made by our country. Later, when I went to school, I learned that there was no space shuttle in our country at all, and serial manned spaceflight had not started at that time. So I changed my dream to be a pilot and fly a domestic fighter plane into the blue sky. When I was in my third year of high school, I participated in the recruitment assessment, and when I was examined, I was brushed off because I was too tall. I had to revise my dream for the third time, because the Internet had gradually become more popular in my third year of high school, and through the Internet, I learned that China's domestic aircraft are very backward. In terms of fighters, foreign stealth planes have already flown all over the sky, and our country's third-generation aircraft has just been test-flown and the engines used are still old. Transport planes and passenger planes are even more unbearable, and all foreign goods are used. So I changed my dream to building airplanes, planes that lead the world. ”
"I know that if you don't say it, you must be scolding me in my heart. Hehe, I was young at that time, so how did I know how difficult it was to build an airplane and how much money was needed. It wasn't until I went to university and went to graduate school that I realized how difficult it was to realize my dream, and how much manpower, how much material and how much money was needed, but I never gave up my dream and have been working hard to realize my dream. The acquisition of the aircraft factory is also part of my efforts to achieve my dream, and the purpose of the acquisition is of course to build aircraft. However, everyone knows the situation in our country, and for the time being, we will not open the military aircraft market to private companies, and as for large transport aircraft and passenger aircraft, we do not have the strength and funds now. So in the future, we can only start with a simple construction, and my plan is to build model airplanes, drones, and small business jets first, which can be used to accumulate capital and technology, and then start other projects when the conditions are ripe. ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Feng stopped and wanted to see the reaction of these old workers. The old men discussed with each other, buzzing one after another. At this time, an old man said loudly: "Gua Wazi, it sounds good, who knows if you are a liar, bought a factory and did something else." ”
Zhang Feng smiled slightly and said: "This old man said well, just saying that he doesn't practice fake tricks, no matter how good he says, it is not as convincing as hard work." Everybody look here......"
As he spoke, Zhang Feng came to his pickup truck, opened the canvas covering the body, and a row of five neat wooden boxes appeared in front of everyone. Zhang Feng patted the wooden boxes and said, "You have seen these wooden boxes, inside are the Dawn 1 small turbofan engines developed by our company for drones and small business aircraft. Don't look so small, but it can reach 300 kg of thrust and a thrust-to-weight ratio of more than 10. Everyone has been dealing with airplanes all their lives, and I think everyone knows very well what it means to have an engine with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 10, so to speak, our drones and business jets are the most fuel-efficient, the longest in the air, and the farthest range. I brought these engines here today to do a test run in our factory. I know that our factory has an engine test bench, the oil I have contacted, will be sent in the afternoon, then welcome everyone to the test workshop, to witness the first test run of the Dawn 1. What is the specific situation, whether I have bragged or not, you can see for yourself in the afternoon. ”
"Boom", these words, like a drop of water dripping into boiling oil, instantly boiled. The old people all pointed to Zhang Feng or the engine on the pickup truck, and talked about it. It is really Zhang Feng's words that are too shocking, the "heart disease" problem of Chinese aircraft is not a day or two, and the thrust-to-weight ratio of domestic engines has never exceeded 8, even some models that claim to have a thrust-to-weight ratio of 10 are only heard and not seen. Suddenly, there is such a private company that has never heard of before, come up with a turbofan engine with a thrust-to-weight ratio of more than 10, how unreal it sounds.
Zhang Feng didn't care at all about the skeptical gazes cast by the old people, believing that by the afternoon, after witnessing the powerful performance of the Dawn One, they would change their opinions.
Throughout the morning, Zhang Feng and others, accompanied by the old factory director, visited the large and small workshops of the aircraft factory. Overall, Zhang Feng is quite satisfied, all kinds of machinery and equipment are indeed very old, but the maintenance is very good, even the rust is rarely seen, and the various factories are also very clean, making it hard to believe that this is a factory that has been shut down for two years.
At noon, the aviation fuel contacted by Zhang Feng had been delivered, and five fully loaded fuel tankers drove directly outside the engine test workshop. Zhang Feng and the others were busy visiting, and they hadn't eaten lunch yet, so they had to ask the old factory director to contact a few workers first and put fuel into the tank.
After a hurried working meal, Zhang Feng Chutian and his party rushed to the test workshop. At this time, the workshop was already full of people, and even outside the workshop, there were hundreds of people, men, women and children.
Although the aircraft factory has been shut down for two years and the factory's workers have found other jobs, they and their families still live in the community attached to the factory. With the old workers dispersed, the news that the owner of the factory who had come to buy the factory was going to test the new engine in the factory had spread throughout the community. The factory has not had any machinery sound for two years, and it is terrible to be deserted, and today it is easy to have a bit of a lively event, and some of the workers and family members of the original aircraft factory have run over.
"Let's borrow light, get out of the way, and let Boss Zhang and Secretary Liu go in."
The old factory director shouted in front, and the onlookers got out of the way and went straight to the inside of the workshop. Some young and middle-aged people in the crowd looked at Zhang Feng and his party with a hint of eagerness and anticipation, although they found another job, but it was so easy to change careers, whether it was salary or treatment, most of them were unsatisfactory. If Mr. Zhang's company does start producing planes after buying the factory, there is a good chance that they will be back to work. As long as the efficiency of the factory is good, the benefit will not be too bad.