Chapter 500: A Visit to the Flame Factory
Now, Qin Feng has just come here, so naturally he won't know that the Ramor in front of him is the most skilled test pilot of Israel Aircraft Industries, and he has been appointed to become the chief test pilot of their LAVI Lion fighter!
He is a very skilled pilot and has flown a lot of aircraft, advanced fighter jets such as the F-15, F-16 and F-18, he has flown all, and, in order to enter the test flight of the trial LAVI fighter jet, he has been training in the United States for three whole years, and has only recently returned.
After coming back, he was the most confident time, who knows, just this morning, when he was taking several other test pilots to do routine physical training, he and Qin Feng had an unexpected encounter, running, on par, this spiral ladder is divided into high and low, after all, he is older!
If you want to be a test pilot, you must have a lot of experience, and even if he has flown a variety of planes and a fighter with a canard layout, he is also the first time, and the older he is, the more experienced he will be, so the current Ramour is almost fifty years old, which is the most experienced time, and what about Qin Feng? Qin Feng is only in his twenties, and he is indeed a little invincible.
Now, the two don't know each other, a physical competition, but the distance between the two has been shortened.
"It seems that you are also pilots, I heard that there will be people in the company who will fly our simulators, it seems that there are a few of you."
"Yes, we're here to fly the simulator." Qin Feng said, since the other party has told his own origin, it means that the other party must know more, now, Qin Feng said to the other party: "We also know that the canard layout fighter you are developing is very advanced, I don't know if there is a chance to visit." ”
"Of course, wait until you have breakfast, and your visit will begin." "And then, let's do it?" ”
The two smiled at each other and started a new project, for test pilots, physical training must not be interrupted!
When a few people came back sweating, they simply took a shower and went to eat.
"You look good, you don't have to get jet lag." Song Lao looked at the refreshed appearance of several people and couldn't help but say.
"yes, I trained this morning, and I met with several Israeli pilots, one of whom is called Ramour." Qin Feng said.
Ramour? Song Lao was not particularly familiar with Israeli pilots, and only felt as if he had heard the name somewhere.
"Alright, hurry up and eat, after eating, let's go visit their flame factory."
Since Song Laodu is here, there must be a harvest, and the first day of everyone's visit is, of course, the production line on their factory.
After eating, everyone walked into the factory, because the hotel here is right next to the factory, and the whole territory of Israel is quite small and densely populated.
The name of this factory is Flame, and at the gate of the factory, you can see the English logo of Fire painted red, which looks spectacular.
"Welcome." The person in charge, Salaf, was at the gate of the factory, and gave a warm welcome to the Chinese guests, but this visit to China was secret, so there was not much welcome scene, everyone introduced it, and walked inside.
And just when they met, Qin Feng saw that Ramour, who was standing beside Salaf, and it seemed that he was obviously a senior figure in the company.
The culture of the East and the West is different, which is also reflected in the research and development of fighters, such as the Soviet Union, which is named after the designer, Mikoyan, Sukhoi, Ilyushin, etc., and in China, although they are all design institutes with digital code names, each design institute has a famous leader.
But the West is different, who designed the F-15? Who designed the F-16? No one can tell, it's due to the whole team, and it doesn't care about a specific person.
We walked into the factory together, under normal circumstances, the aircraft factory, refers to the assembly plant, after all, the parts of the aircraft are manufactured by the subordinate factories, sent to the assembly plant, and the final assembly is carried out directly.
A large number of Israel's fighters are purchased, because they can directly buy world-class fighters, such as F-15, F-16, etc., so that other countries are out of reach, and more importantly, many of them are taking the road of military aid, and people don't have to spend money at all.
But at the same time, they did not give up their own production, because they did not want to repeat the previous path, and in the time of the war they lost the source of fighters because of the arms embargo.
At the same time, in the years of war, the design and use of their fighters are the most advanced, just like Pakistan, there is no need to play false, any indicators are valuable and of practical significance.
Now, when you walk into the factory here for the first time, the whole plant is clean and tidy, and all kinds of parts are neatly placed, and on the assembly line next to it, there are several modified fighters.
"This is our latest fighter jet, the Cub C7, which has been heavily refurbished with our state-of-the-art avionics compared to the original model." Saraf introduced to everyone.
Everyone knows more or less about the origin of the Cub fighter, this fighter is improved from the Mirage 3 fighter, after all, at the beginning, Israel only got the technical information of the Mirage 3 fighter, and then started to manufacture it itself, but soon, they improved it on the basis of this fighter.
For example, after several adjustments, they no longer used the original French backward Atta engine, and its tail became thicker because of a J79 engine crammed into the back.
In the era of second-generation aircraft, this was a pretty good engine, and even the Americans were tempted to stuff it into the back of the F-16, but it was a pity that it was not suitable.
With the new engine, the power is stronger, but the basic wing area has not changed, and the resulting high wing load has deteriorated handling. At the same time, maneuverability was affected due to the forward shift of the center of gravity of the fuselage, while the pneumatic center remained motionless.
After the research of Israeli engineers, it was finally decided to install a pair of canard wings in front of its fuselage, you know, Dassault's Phantom 2000 is actually based on the Phantom 3 with canard wings, and it is controlled by fly-by-wire.
However, Israel's R&D strength is not so strong, and this canard wing is fixed. This also creates the difference in appearance between the Cub fighter and the Mirage 3 fighter, with canard wings in the front and a thicker back, which is instantly recognizable.