456: Trainer aircraft
About 100 miles west of Luliang, a biplane was soaring in the air, and the people on the ground raised their heads in amazement, their faces full of surprise, they couldn't believe what they saw, they were full of shock, but no one came to explain to them what it was?
However, fortunately, there are mostly mountainous areas here, and there are not many residents nearby, most of them are mountain people who live here all year round, and they don't have much contact with the outside world at all, even if they see the plane, it is difficult for the news to be spread. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
About an hour later, at the base west of Luliang, the plane slowly landed in the makeshift airfield, which was not large enough to allow five planes to take off at the same time, but it was still enough to test the aircraft. And it is not easy to find such a flat land in the mountains.
The plane was safely parked in the hangar, which was also the maintenance point for the plane, a temporary camouflage, which couldn't protect against shells or anything, so it was just a project.
But even if it is a prototype project, no one dares to underestimate here, because after dozens of tests, the first training aircraft of the Chinese Empire has basically been finalized.
This trainer is far from being as simple as imagined, originally they thought that they had experience in the manufacture of aircraft, and they could directly modify it on a small scale, but after the transformation, they found a bigger problem, and finally had to redesign a two-seater aircraft to act as a trainer aircraft.
And this trainer aircraft did not deliberately require speed and performance or anything, his speed is only less than 150 kilometers per hour, far from the standard of reconnaissance aircraft and fighters, but it has a two-seater, dual-control control platform, but it is indispensable for a training aircraft.
Yang Sen and Peng Jialou jumped off the trainer plane with a relaxed face, experimented dozens of times, from the initial panic, to the current ordinary calm, the two of them accompanied this trainer from the beginning, and with the test flight, dozens of suggestions for the trainer aircraft were provided, which finally led to this aircraft.
This test flight is the last test flight of this trainer aircraft, and next, it will be mass-produced and delivered to flight schools for use.
At that time, Yang Sen and Peng Jialou will also play the role of instructors, and the two of them will train ten qualified instructors for the flight school, and then those instructors will teach the students to fly.
Flying into the sky, is everyone's dream, on the ground, you can never experience the feeling of soaring in the air, from a high place looking down on the whole ground, that feeling, can not be described at all, every time you go to the sky, there will always be an inexplicable sense of excitement in your heart, and take the plane you designed and manufactured into the sky, that feeling will be more wonderful.
If it weren't for the fact that Yang Sen and Peng Jialou's transfer report was returned, the two of them would definitely rush into the air force without hesitation, to become a pilot, and fly and fight in the sky above the enemy country with fighter planes.
"Is there anything wrong with the plane?" Chief Engineer Qian Jin stayed in the base, and at the moment when the plane was stable, he immediately greeted him, asking with a solemn face.
And Qian Jin's personality is much more stable than Yang Sen and Peng Jialou, although the plane has come back safely, he still subconsciously asked, in his opinion, the normality of the plane is above all else, as long as there is no problem with the plane, then everything is easy to say.
"Everything is working fine, and I think it's ready to be delivered to the school." Janssen responded with a smile.
"It's normal, but you two can't have any carelessness, we have changed a lot of places in this training aircraft, and it has only gone through dozens of trainings, some problems may not leak out so quickly, after arriving at the military academy, you must be more careful, and you must not be reckless." Qian Jin still reminded with some unease.
Because it is a special aircraft for training flight students, and these flight students are not those flight veterans, they know what kind of action can be sitting, what kind of action can never be done, and when they first take off, there will inevitably be some excitement or excitement in their hearts, what if when the instructor hands over the control of the aircraft to the students, the students have some serious consequences because of their own excitement?
All these problems, Qian Jin has to take it into account, then, in the end, the only thing they can do is to upgrade the aircraft itself, and the most intuitive is to transform the all-wood fuselage into a half-wood and half-iron structure, that is, to use steel to support in some major positions to prevent the aircraft from disintegrating when doing certain actions.
In addition, there are many places that have been transformed, and the most straightforward feeling of so many modifications in the end is that the speed of the aircraft has been reduced a lot, and because the weight of the fuselage has increased, the take-off distance needs to be longer, and the fuel consumption has also increased.
At the same time, when operating, this trainer is not as sensitive as the wooden fuselage, always giving people a feeling of sluggishness, although there are still all kinds of shortcomings, but for teaching flight, this aircraft can still be competent.
Of course, although they have upgraded the aircraft, the reinforcement of the place has also been reinforced, but after all, it has not been tested in the wind tunnel, and the items that originally needed to be tested in the wind tunnel can now only be tested by them in person, the danger is self-evident, therefore, some actions are still avoided as much as possible, the task of the flight school is to teach them to take off and land, fly smoothly in the air, and do some simple actions, as for the rest, or wait for the real meaning of the fighter to come out and then consider it.
As the first non-experimental aircraft, before it is about to be delivered, Qian Jin's heart is still relatively cautious, and Qian Jin's thinking also contains the kind of thinking that almost all Chinese have, that is, not seeking merit but seeking no fault.
"Don't worry, Qian Gong, you won't make mistakes, besides, the two of us won't make mistakes with our own lives, will we?" Peng Jialou responded calmly.
"I know that you two will not risk your own lives to do those things, but as the head of our scientific research institute, I have to think more about this matter than you, and it is more comprehensive." Qian Jin said in a flat tone, although on the surface it seems that his status is higher than everyone else, but who can understand how much pressure he has? Not in this position, he would never have experienced that feeling.
When he was in Chile, although Qian Jin also had pressure on him, but that pressure came more from the emperor's expectations and his own arrogance, and the country spent so much money on them, they had to come up with qualified planes as soon as possible to be worthy of the country's investment.
But now, after returning to China, the country has ********, although there are no clear requirements, but the military academy has been built, and hundreds of people are waiting for them to launch the training aircraft, and after the incident, they will continue to wait for them to launch a fighter that can be used for the military, which is not pressure? It was their own pressure abroad, but returning home turned into pressure on them from the front-line troops.
"The state has invested so much money in us, and if the first non-experimental model we come up with has a problem, then have you ever thought about the consequences? Even if the state does not hold us accountable, what about the soldiers? What about pilots? Will they continue to trust the aircraft we have researched and built? I won't tell you more about the big truth of preconceived ideas, you all understand this, so this time, you two must be cautious and cautious, rather conservative, than never take risks, we want everyone to know that the aircraft we are studying is the safest and most reliable. We can't let our pilots get scared at the sight of the plane, and even have the idea that they don't know if they will be able to come back after they take to the skies. Qian Jin continued.
He has always been very worried about the safety of the aircraft, the main reason is this, once the first aircraft has a problem, then it will bring a huge psychological shadow to the pilot, this is not a moment and a half to solve, and may even affect the future.
And the country has invested so much, it would be a lie to say that there is no strategic layout, so it is good that this trainer does not have an accident, but once an accident occurs, it will affect the country's strategic deployment.
This is a very simple reason, for example, a company launched the first product in the future, but the first product has all kinds of problems, and it has also led to casualties, so will other consumers choose to buy your product? Even if there are no problems with the subsequent versions, and the security even surpasses that of other products, your customers will never outperform your opponents.
"Don't worry, Qian Gong, we will not disappoint Your Majesty." Seeing Qian Jin's rigorous attitude, Yang Sen and the others couldn't help but face it squarely.
"Okay, I believe in you, go back and prepare, go to the military academy tomorrow to pick people, and we will officially enter the next stage of the mission." Qian Jin smiled and patted the two of them on the shoulder as a sign of encouragement.
Yang Sen and the two nodded, and immediately returned to the dormitory, the two picked up the information handed over from the military academy during this time, in fact, there is nothing to see, all the information has the ranking statistics of the military school, and the military academy according to the requirements of the scientific research institute, focusing on the understanding of this piece in the first place, if nothing else, they only need to pull the top ten over.
Because they have already passed the inspection of the military principal's time, they basically meet the requirements of scientific research. However, the two expanded their target to the top 30 and then selected 10 students who met the requirements. (To be continued.) )