Chapter 582: Special Tractor
If there is pressure, there will be motivation, and this time everyone is deeply stimulated, of course, there is another benefit, that is, to motivate researchers to work hard.
Now, the tractors used by the Air Force to tow fighters are just ordinary trucks and trucks, anyway, the current fighters are not heavy, and it is more than enough to tow a J-6 and J-7, and it is also possible to tow a J-8, but in another two years, when an aircraft like the Su-27 is equipped with troops, ordinary vehicles are no longer suitable.
After all, the Su-27 is full of fuel and ammunition, and that's a big guy of twenty tons.
Not only the traction is not good, the brakes are not good, when you pull can not be pulled, when you stop and you can't stop, this will be a problem, the landing gear, fuselage structure and airborne equipment of the aircraft may cause harm and damage, especially the Su-27 introduced at a high price, and any accidental loss is unbearable.
After this stimulus, a year later, the new generation of fighter tractor project was established, and in 1992, China's first professional fighter tractor: 01 fighter tractor was officially finalized.
Although there is still a gap in the fighter, but in this small tractor, once the force is exerted, it will definitely be able to break through quickly.
Later, in 2006, a company specializing in the manufacture of tractors in the United States sent representatives to China to visit China's latest domestically produced fighter tractors. After inspecting the tour, the US representative joked to the Chinese personnel: "You actually used such a good tractor to tow the J-7 and J-8!" I would recommend it to the US Air Force, it should be used on the F22! Our equipment is 10 years behind yours!
Although the Americans are not very backward, it also shows that in terms of aircraft tractors, domestic ones have reached the world-class level, especially on the aircraft carrier of the Liaoning, the aircraft tractor has become a dazzling star, and everyone likes to compare it with the tractor on the Indian aircraft carrier.
As for the special aircraft tractor, the Americans were the first to engage in it.
In the middle of World War II, the Americans directly moved the Willis military jeep to the aircraft carrier as a tractor, and later switched to a tractor, and in the jet era, the US Navy began to equip a special carrier-based aircraft tractor in the 60s, and now, their aircraft tractor has been very mature.
The first feature of the aircraft tractor is that it is low!
Why do you want to be low, just look at it now, in everyone's surprised eyes, the driver's upper body was exposed on it, and he drove the car until it was under the nose of the J-8, and then, with the help of another person, the tractor and the landing gear in front of the J-8 were directly fixed!
The 130 truck is not good, because it is high, it is impossible to drill directly under the J-8, but now the tractor dedicated to the Americans is different, its height is less than one meter, almost on the top of the flat tires is the roof, in this way, directly drilled in, no tow bar, can be hung on the landing gear!
The towbar is a burden, when at the airport, that is, the length is increased, the turning radius is increased, and here, it may face the state of getting stuck on the floor and not going up.
Now, it was fixed, and in everyone's eyes, I saw the driver put his right hand on the right, and then twisted his body back halfway and began to reverse.
This kind of tractor can be driven in any way, forward or backward, and it is easy to drive, because there is only the accelerator and brake under your feet!
Qin Feng remembered the introduction on the information, he had seen it before, the engine of this kind of car was just behind the buttocks, all four tires were powered, and the transmission system was an automatic transmission.
At that time, Qin Feng was still sighing, Americans are rich, can an aircraft tractor use so many tricks? Let's use trucks, isn't it the same tow?
At that time, the understanding was not deep enough, but now Qin Feng understands, this thing is really different.
Automatic transmission, it is enough to step on the accelerator directly, in this way, it is very convenient for the driver, it is easy to go forward and backward, and at the same time, this kind of car is very different from a truck.
It doesn't need to be too high, a maximum speed of 10 km/h is enough, but it has to have a lot of traction, which means that the drivetrain has a high speed ratio, which can only be achieved by specially developed cars.
At the same time, the brakes of this kind of car must also be quite effective, because it does not only have to stop itself, but also the plane with it needs to stop.
Why not use the plane's own brakes?
Of course it doesn't work, now the plane is not running, there is no pressure in the hydraulic system, the foot can't step on the rudder at all, and the brake can't be braked at all. I just slipped over it, and the reason is as simple as that.
Therefore, only a special tractor can have such a special effect, and now, what they need is such a tractor.
In everyone's attention, the car was steadily up the slope, and the roar of the engine continued, but there was almost no black smoke from the exhaust pipe, and no tire slippage was visible.
In this case, the tires will definitely not slip, because the gravity of the fighter plane is pressed down!
Finally, at the top, in everyone's attention, the milky white tractor pulled the silver-white J-8 fighter with its wings removed and entered the belly of the Galaxy transport plane. Seeing that the fuselage went in, the tail also went in, the space inside was so spacious, everyone was relieved, there was such a transport plane to transport, there was no problem in flying over.
It was a very simple thing, but it turned out to make us look foreign!
Wait, how did the tractor come out? How to tow the second one?
Some people have already begun to think about this in their hearts. The tractor can only be pulled up, it is impossible to push it upside down, although the inside is very spacious, but when the plane enters, the inside is still blocked, because the plane must be fixed on the central axis of the fuselage, and the tractor seems to have no way to go out again, right? There isn't much room on either side.
Just when everyone was just starting to worry, there was a roar from the nose of the plane.
Isn't that easy? Of course, it came out of the nose, because the front and back of the people are connected! This is very convenient, transporting tanks and the like, it is not easy to let the tank come out upside down, so drive up in the back and drive down in front, which is an advantage of opening both front and rear!
Not to mention tanks, trains can also get in.