It was almost time to go to work, and Ba Yunhua, the chief designer of the "torpedo bomber" project who came to the company an hour in advance, saw Li Guoyong who was preoccupied in the small garden pavilion at a glance, so he turned around and walked over.

"Hi Guoyong, what's the matter? Not sure about today's trial?! ”

Seeing a few cigarette butts at Li Guoyong's feet, Ba Yunhua asked. In fact, Ba Yunhua himself was not at ease about today's test flight, especially after the "torpedo bomber" project explained its true design purpose to the navy's top brass, General Gao Mingjiu, director of the HNA region, made an exception and approved the navy to allocate 100,000 yuan in advance, that is, to order the manufacturing funds of three prototypes from Shen Fei.

"It's okay, I'm worried about whether I can win all the orders for carrier-based bombers from HNA, and the navy seems to have decided to make the naval model produced by the Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Company from the dive bomber jointly developed by Chengfei and Guifei as their first choice for carrier-based bombers...... After all, we are competing for the torpedo machine project. Li Guoyong made a helpless gesture, after all, everyone would be worried about whether a high-speed monoplane could carry a torpedo weighing more than 1,000 kilograms and take off smoothly on the narrow flight deck.

"Ah, you're worried about this, and according to my calculations, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. After we completed the Star-14 engine project in cooperation with General Dynamics, the biggest difficulties were solved. Ba Yunhua smiled casually, the latest star-shaped re-train 14-cylinder air-cooled engine completed by Shenfei Aviation and Jinyang General Power Manufacturing Company can reach a maximum power of 980 horsepower, and the power of its improved model will increase, and it is not too much of a problem to send an aircraft weighing 6 tons into the sky in a short distance.

"I'm just worried that if the party knows the real purpose of designing this type of torpedo aircraft, it will cause another wave, after all, the Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Company and the Navy have been working together for many years."

"There is no need to worry about this, judging from General Gao Mingjiu's move to make an exception this time to allocate the cost of prototype manufacturing in advance before bidding, we are exactly what he likes...... The navy is definitely in urgent need of such a new high-speed multi-role bomber that integrates horizontal bombing, dive bombing, and torpedo bombing. You know that an aircraft carrier has a limited deck area and hangar capacity, and all naval officers certainly want the aircraft on board to have more use and preferably some air combat capability. Ah, of course, they certainly cannot be compared with those specialized light fighters. Li Guoyong said very calmly.

The cost of the "torpedo bomber" project, from design to development, was paid by Shen Fei himself, and he did not receive funding from the military, which was a large expense.

Of course, it's also a big burden.

Now, whether it can win the favor of the technical department of naval aviation will of course depend on the results of this test flight.

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After Ling Wencha accompanied General Gao Mingjiu, director of the HNA to the test flight site of the Shenzhou Aircraft Manufacturing Company in the suburbs of Shenzhou City, he immediately saw a single-engine monoplane bomber whose appearance can only be described as very ugly.

The nose is too large due to the use of a new air-cooled engine, the short and thick fuselage, the mid-monoplane structure that crosses the fuselage, and the wings that are slightly wider than ordinary fighters and the unique pigeon wing shape of Shenfei. The planes being dragged out of the hangar at this time shone in the sun, and the unpainted aluminum skin shone with a dazzling silver-white metallic hue.

Of course, General Gao Mingjiu paid more attention to the heavy aviation torpedo weighing 890 kg mounted under the fuselage.

"The new multi-role bomber has an all-metal fuselage and weighs up to 4.9 tons, mainly because we have installed a new design of an armored cockpit with 7 mm thick steel plates, which protects the pilot's body from anti-aircraft machine guns up to 12.7 mm. Thanks to our new 980 hp engine, developed in collaboration with General Dynamics, the aircraft has a maximum take-off weight of 6.3 tons, which is enough for the bomber to carry a standard heavy aerial torpedo or four 250-kilogram bombs in a short range. This type of aircraft has both horizontal bombing and dive bombing performance, because of the large wingspan, its dive performance is slightly weaker than the dive bomber of the army aviation, but its high-speed performance when carrying torpedoes is currently equipped with biplane torpedo planes equipped with the world's navies do not have. ”

Mr. Li Guoyong is endlessly explaining the performance of this aircraft for Gao Mingjiu, which is what Gao Mingjiu values the most, if all the torpedo squadrons on the aircraft carrier are replaced by this kind of bomber, then the attack capability of the entire aircraft carrier can be greatly improved.

This is also the main reason why he personally went to the test flight site of Li Guoyong's company to watch the test flight of this type of aircraft.

If the test flight is successful, HNA will immediately increase its financial support for this type of aircraft.

Preparations for the test flight began, and the chief designer Ba Yunhua finally instructed the test pilot Li Jingchang to take a few precautions, and the chief test pilot wearing a pilot's uniform boarded the new fighter. With the assistance of ground crew, the aircraft has been towed to one end of the test runway.

With the roar of the engines, the thick fuselage slowly slid forward along the runway, and the plane that shone silver in the sunlight attracted the attention of everyone present.

"God forbid, the engine must not have an accident today!" Li Jingchang, who was controlling the plane, couldn't help but pray in his heart when he heard the roar of the motor coming from the nose of the plane. Although the power of the newly developed Compound Star-14 engine is strong, its reliability is somewhat unstable, which is a problem common to all newly developed engines.

Only when the use is mature, its performance will become more stable as it improves.

The plane was accelerating, and Ling Wencha kept staring at the torpedo in the belly of the plane in the telescope, regardless of the dive performance, if it could carry this torpedo and take off successfully, then it would basically be selected as a new carrier-based torpedo bomber, and the naval air fleet's need for carrier-based monoplane torpedo aircraft was too urgent.

The plane was accelerating, then the fuselage jumped upwards and left the ground. Ling Wencha noticed that at this time, there was still a distance of more than 20 meters from the 120-meter-long take-off white line, which means that this type of aircraft can fully meet the take-off requirements on the flight deck.

He turned his head and glanced at General Gao Mingjiu, and sure enough, he saw that the vice admiral was still holding a telescope in both hands and staring at the flight of the plane, but he still nodded involuntarily.

"What is he going to do?" The plane made some regular maneuvers during the climb, and after circling a few times at an altitude of about 2,000 meters, it suddenly fell headlong downward.

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