This aircraft, from the design drawings to the current prototype assembly, we have also watched the growth of this aircraft little by little, and we have a lot of emotions in our hearts. Standing in front of this prototype, Shi Lao was very emotional.

  For the 320 factory, these years, it is also difficult, the country's tasks are getting less and less, their factory is also facing the danger of military to civilian, and even bankruptcy, and the success of the 132 factory inspires them, they also want to develop an aircraft that goes for export sales, so that their factory can come alive!

  And this product gives them this hope, the K-8 trainer aircraft will not go to the fierce fighter market to open up sales, but to fight a broad road from the trainer market.

  Now the world's most popular dedicated jet trainer, the first to promote the British "Eagle" trainer, which is a British famous Hawker-Siddeley company designed for the British Air Force a mid-to-high-level jet trainer, in addition to the training mission, can also perform close air support missions. Therefore, after the launch of this trainer aircraft, it was immediately welcomed by many users and exported to many countries, and even the US Navy specially introduced this kind of trainer aircraft and became a special carrier-based trainer aircraft for their carrier-based aircraft units, of course, according to their rules, given a T-45 number.

  The same type, there are also Alpha jet trainers jointly developed by France and Germany, these aircraft are similar in appearance, and the domestic K-8 in front of them obviously adopts a similar design in appearance.

  The whole fuselage is small, the huge front and rear tandem two-seater occupies a lot of space in the nose, from the proportion of this cockpit, it can also be seen the size of the aircraft, however, for a training aircraft, it does not need to load too much electronic equipment, does not need to have much endurance, small and flexible, can complete a variety of training requirements of maneuvering actions.

  And this kind of cockpit layout with low front and high rear is definitely the favorite of the instructors, and there will be no periscope in the future.

  On both sides of the cockpit, there are small air intakes, rounded shapes, under the air intakes, there is a single wing with a medium aspect ratio, the sweep angle of this wing is very small, because it does not need supersonic flight ability at all, for a subsonic trainer aircraft, the sweep angle is small, which can make it more maneuverable and flexible, and it is easy to do various actions.

  The air intake is backward and soon extends to the position of the tail fin, which is a normal structure, and at this time, the first three landing gear below is still in the final installation stage, and the entire aircraft is already in a state of preparation.

  The name of K-8 also has a origin, in China, it was originally called Jiao-8, after Lao Ba joined in, as a jointly developed fighter, Lao Ba proposed by the initials of Kunlun Mountain, which is friendly on the national border, is K, as the name of this training aircraft, which of course won the favor of the country, and immediately agreed, the whole project is called Jiao Ba internally, and it is called K-8 externally.

  Now, looking at this plane, Qin Feng is also full of interest.

  "Shall you go up and have a look?" Shi Lao said: "If you come to give us the first flight, it will be the best." ”

  Qin Feng hurriedly shook his head, I still have a lot of test flight projects, J-7, J-8 oil engines, and J-10 are also about to come out, I am now avoiding work and coming out for sightseeing, but I can't occupy the magpie's nest here.

  However, it is certain to go up and take a look, this aircraft is a joint research and development aircraft with Pakistan, and in the stage of research and development, it uses mature components in the world, so what is the difference between this training aircraft developed for export and the domestic one?

  When Qin Feng climbed onto the cockpit along the side to assemble the shelf supported by the trainer aircraft, his eyes immediately lit up, not to mention the ejection seat inside the cockpit, which is the most commonly used Martin Baker ejection seat in the West, just talking about the front dashboard, it is an eye-opener.

  This is a training aircraft, so there are no various complex weapon systems, the panel is very concise, on both sides, are arranged some commonly used instrument equipment for flight, altimeter, airspeed gauge, attitude gauge, turning side slip gauge, etc., with these instruments, you can do the most usual instrument flight, at the same time, in the center of the dashboard, the most conspicuous position, there are two displays!

  The area of the two monitors is not large, and it seems that there is not much content that can be displayed, but the appearance of these two monitors has far-reaching significance.

  All kinds of training aircraft in China are full of mechanical instruments, and with the development of technology, advanced modern fighters, the proportion of displays will be more and more, such as F-16 fighters, already have two large displays, and even the most cutting-edge aviation instrument theory, that is, a comprehensive glass cockpit, without any instruments, relying on a flat and three layout, it is enough.

  Pilots need to adapt to the display of the display, but this is not easy, accustomed to seeing the intuitive various pointer instruments, and then to change the display of the display of the aircraft, it is not easy to adapt, especially the old, experienced pilots, even more, many old pilots in the flight J-7, the first thing to go up is to turn off the heads-up display, feel that that thing is the most obstructive.

  Now, this kind of training aircraft is to train new pilots, and new pilots will fly more types of aircraft in the future, and it is obviously of great benefit to start training them to adapt to this kind of display interface now.

  Qin Feng is a young flight veteran, he is definitely not complacent, and his ability to accept modern equipment is very strong, so he can intuitively see that this kind of equipment must be suitable for his own training of new pilots.

  However, the surprise can be figured out quickly, because this aircraft is jointly developed with Lao Ba, Lao Ba's vision, that is the highest, this cabin display equipment, Lao Ba must have given a lot of opinions, if you still engage in the previous kind of comprehensive instrument display, Lao Ba may not be able to pick a child.

  "The windshield is finally a monolithic." Qin Feng's gaze was easily raised from the instrument of the cockpit, looking ahead, the three-piece windshield that was long ago had finally disappeared and became the structure of the overall windshield.

  Of course, as a modern training aircraft, there must be a heads-up display, behind the overall windshield, the head-up display looks so conspicuous, plus the display below, the entire cockpit, has reached the world's mainstream level.