Hold up the backbone of the motherland's sky

——Thoughts on the writing of "Great Power Airlines".

I have been a military fan since I was a child, and when my peers were playing football on the playground and flying kites in the field, I liked to go to the bookstore and look through the military magazines, and then use my frugal pocket money to buy the magazines I liked. From these magazines, I gradually learned about the development of the motherland's aviation industry and the difficult development process of domestically produced fighters. J-8, a beautiful man in the air, with a slender body and wide triangular wings. Once upon a time, it was the sustenance in the hearts of military fans, and it was the most perfect eighth master. And when 81192 carried the blood of martyrs in the sky, it became an eternal pain in the hearts of military fans. Two years after the hero's departure, the J-10 was officially finalized and equipped with troops, becoming a proud Raptor fighter, which adopts the world's advanced canard layout and is the crystallization of many years of hard work and sweat of the 611 Institute. Back then, when I saw the J-10 for the first time in a magazine, my heart was full of shock. The famous aircraft designer Dassault once famously said, "A beautiful plane must be a good plane." "The J-10 is such a beautiful aircraft. Its high nose, big mouth in the belly, fully movable canard wings, and the perfect waistline are all attracting me, our motherland, finally has a world-class fighter! In order to develop it, how many researchers fought day and night; How many test pilots risked their lives in order to test fly it! J-20, a stealth fighter on par with the F-22, when its black body appeared in the sky, all military fans were shouting the name of the black ribbon. This fighter nicknamed Weilong, in the eyes of military fans, is like the most beautiful lover, its diamond-shaped fuselage, the cambered vertical tail, and even the bulge of the air intake, are fascinating, we have climbed to the world of fighter Mount Everest. In the world, apart from the United States, only China can independently develop fourth-generation aircraft! Back then, Britain and France were all old aviation powers, and they already had advanced aircraft such as the Mirage 2000 and Tornado, what do we have? We started with the MiG-21 and caught up little by little! Over the years, I have grown up with the aviation industry of the motherland, watching the take-off of fighter planes, and the motherland has finally become an aviation power. As a military fan, I am proud of the great motherland and proud of the fact that the Republic has world-class fighters!

However, at that time, I was just a military fan, reading the manuscripts written by others, reading over and over again, a lot of information can even be memorized, all kinds of data of each fighter, such as a number of treasures, and then there is the Internet, there is a faster place to understand military knowledge: Super Base Camp, Air Force Wings, are my favorite websites. With the continuous accumulation of information, I gradually embarked on the road of the Internet, and wrote purely military hardcore online works, which have also won the recognition of many readers. However, the book "Great Power Aviation" has always been conceived in my head, and I did not write it immediately, and I was a little weak at the time, not too lazy to write, because I knew that it was not easy to write such a story, and it was not easy to write the story of the aviation people of the Republic overcoming obstacles, working hard, and working hard to build a great country aviation. It's not one, it's an infinite number of stories, the model is too complicated, the process is too messy, and in the midst of the chaos, I don't even know how to start. Therefore, I have been silently accumulating materials, accumulating various military magazines at home, leaving a series of footprints on the Internet, and chatting with many like-minded military fans and netizens. Thinking about how many difficulties our J-10 development went through back then, Song Lao once went to sell box lunches. Have you read Tu Lao's autobiography? At that time, in order to sell the J-7, they really put in a lot of effort! Every time I chat, I have an impulse, since I am already an online writer, why not write this story on the Internet, so that more people can see the difficult road we walked back then, and let more people know that for the sake of great country aviation, how many technicians are dedicated day and night, and how many test pilots have even paid the price of their lives? I've been thinking about it for countless nights, and it's just the last line that ties these stories together.

I still remember vividly that when I chatted with my editor Eraser that day, he suddenly gave a suggestion: "Why not take the test pilot as the protagonist and write the research and development of advanced fighters from the perspective of the test pilot, and record that unforgettable era of striving for progress?" "Test pilots, but also flight engineers, they even know more about aircraft than designers, they understand both flight and aircraft, they participate in both test flights, and participate in the development of fighter planes, it is precisely because of such engineer-level test pilots that they can quickly judge the cause and take countermeasures at the moment of failure in the test flight. Because they are more familiar with fighters than they are with their own bodies. This suggestion was like a bolt of lightning that cut through the chaos of thoughts in my brain and lit up the starry sky in my mind. Those materials, the materials that have accumulated bit by bit, are all connected by an invisible thread. At that time, I was as excited as if I had been hit with chicken blood, and immediately turned on the computer and wrote the first story in it: the test pilot tested the J-7 and risked his life to fly the fighter back when the engine caught fire. Many test pilots have had such an experience. As a test pilot, it is necessary to keep the plane, even if it falls, it must fall on the runway, and find the cause of the failure for the designers. That's their mission! They used their lives and blood to write their love for aviation. It is precisely because of their efforts that there is the maturity of one fighter after another, breaking out of the cocoon and soaring into the sky! At the same time, with them as the main line, you can also walk into that special era. After the new millennium, it is a golden age, an era in which the motherland's aviation takes off, and in order to achieve this take-off, from the eighties, the motherland's aviation industry began to move step by step. Therefore, I started writing in the 80s, and wrote the singing and crying stories of test pilots and aviation people in that great era of reform and opening up.

The Internet mainly relies on coolness, relying on smooth plots to attract people, crush others, and always reflect their own bullish spirit, so as to attract readers. Therefore, when I first started publishing it, I was a little apprehensive, after all, in our aviation industry in the 80s, there were too many embarrassing places, and there would not be too much coolness, but I didn't give up, and I was able to write such a story well, as a military fan, even if I did my part. But after the serialization, it didn't take long for many netizens to speak, which moved me deeply. For example, a netizen named "Lone Star AS Tears" said: I have drunk some wine now, and I may not be too conscious, but I really feel deep about the image of the protagonist created by the author. No matter how many injustices there are in life, but these are caused by private desires, for the country and the party, I have 1,000 percent trust, although I am only a part-time worker, but at the critical moment of the motherland, if my sacrifice can be exchanged for better development of the country or can protect the interests of the motherland, I will do it without hesitation. Although I am also afraid of death, and I am also afraid of not waking up, I really don't want my descendants to live like in the late Qing Dynasty, and I die without regrets. For China, for the future of the Chinese nation. When I saw this passage, I burst into tears in front of the computer screen. I know that I wrote successfully, and I won the sympathy of my readers. For the sake of the motherland, we will all contribute everything we have when needed. is like the older generation of military workers, even if they have advanced liver cancer, they still have to complete their tasks and design fighters; Test pilots, even if they know that the risks are very high and that they are likely not to come back, will not hesitate. Everything is for the strength of the motherland. There is also a reader with the screen name "Sea Blue Corner", who left a message at the back: First of all, thank the author for taking the test flight institute as the background of this book! I am a member of the test pilot yard, and I hope you can restore more real history to commemorate the dedication of generations of test pilots! … Without exception, they all dedicated their youth and their entire lives to China's test flight career! … Maybe a colleague who was talking to you about work a few minutes ago won't come back after a few minutes! In our test flight team, many national test flight heroes have emerged! But there are more unsung heroes in the entire test flight yard! … Reading these words, I even felt a little proud. With the development of Internet literature, many people will like to read the Internet, and they may not read newspapers and magazines, so they don't know these unforgettable stories in the development of the motherland's aviation industry. And I use the way of online literature to let more people know these stories of theirs, so that more people can find the spirit of dedication to the country. I have succeeded, I have realized my life value as an online writer, so that more readers know our aviation dream, the dream of a great country.

The Chinese nation is a nation full of creativity. We can fall behind temporarily, but not forever. As long as we are willing to work hard, we will be able to catch up and stand at the top of the world! Countless late nights, I sat in front of the computer and typed characters one by one, as if following the protagonist and re-entering that era. When a test flight is successful and an aircraft is developed and finalized, I am also happy with the protagonist; When encountering a breakdown, or even when the comrades around him leave because of an accident, they will be sad together. In that era, it was always impressive, and the story of the test flight of the fighter could never be finished. Of course, I'm just an online writer, and writing a series of aviation stories for the first time is bound to have quite a few flaws. If it is a real test pilot, in the golden age of test flight, it should mainly test fly one or two models, after all, a model from the first flight to service, will go through several years, participate in two models, which is already very remarkable. Test pilots in the West, many times, fly only once. For example, the first flight of a new fighter, as long as it flies up and then falls, the honor, money, and status are all in hand, and there is no need to fly again in the future. And domestic test pilots, as long as the model needs it, will continue to fly. Many of them will think like this: I will always fly if I can fly, and when I fly until the day I can't fly, I will stand on the runway of the base every day and watch others fly, which is the cause they have been fighting for all their lives! In this book, in order to connect those stories one by one, the protagonist will make a cameo appearance when needed, and enter the test flight of each model. After all, there are too many stories of excellent test pilots: during the test flight, the flying leopard shook too much, the dashboard fell off, the rudder shook off, and he still insisted on flying back; The first test flight of the J-10 is static and unstable, which requires the courage of the test pilot and full confidence in the flight control of the fighter; J-8 in-flight refueling, how many times has it failed, will not be discouraged, carefully analyze, find the problem; There is also the glide jump take-off of the J-16, blocking the landing, and achieving a breakthrough of zero take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft...... After all, it is artistic, comes from life, and is higher than life, which makes all expert readers and friends smile. I really wanted to incorporate all these stories into this book, showing wonderful scenes and moving step by step towards great power aviation. When we can read and study in the quiet campus; When we can accompany our lover in the park; When we can look at the traffic of the big city from the high-rise buildings, we might as well look up at the sky, it is precisely because of a strong national defense that we can have a stable and peaceful life; It is precisely because of the great power aviation that we have the quiet sky above our heads!

The story in the test flight, the story in the development of the fighter, there are too many, I just hate my limited pen power, I can't write the story more excitingly, and even, because of too much entanglement in details and information, it can also make readers and friends feel a little jerky, a little far-fetched, and I apologize in advance here. Finally, a poem to pay tribute to the predecessors of the aviation industry.