With the continuous expansion of the scale of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex, it has become an absolute leader in all fields of the weapons industry, and many arms dealers can only do some business that the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex does not do, but many arms dealers have come to the door and become the parts supplier of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex, or authorized to produce advanced weapons products of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex. In this way, the Dragon Soul Ordnance Consortium has become a super large enterprise that is unparalleled in the world, and no company can compare with it!

Under such circumstances, Xiao Weiguo decided to develop a long-range large passenger aircraft capable of intercontinental flights! After all, the M40 large transport aircraft is a turboprop airliner, and its range is only more than 2,000 kilometers, and the number of passengers it carries is relatively small.

Now the turbofan engine of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex has also been successfully applied to the Holden H2 flying wing bomber, so Xiao Weiguo plans to use this kind of wind and thunder turbofan engine with a thrust of 3000 kg to design and manufacture a long-range large passenger aircraft, this kind of passenger aircraft is the most profitable, in the previous life, Boeing and Airbus divided the world's trunk airliner market almost equally, and now Xiao Weiguo wants to let the Dragon Soul Ordnance Consortium be exclusive to the family, of course, like the American Boeing, Aviation companies such as Dassault Textiles have also become foundries of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex, so that many parts and components can also be produced by these companies, but the final assembly must be carried out at the factories of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex.

As a result, a 150-seat intercontinental airliner began to be designed and manufactured in the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex! This airliner is based on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a wide-body airliner that Xiao Weiguo flew in his previous life, and of course it is much smaller than the Boeing 787 in terms of weight and size. After all, the total thrust of 8 wind and thunder turbofan engines is only 24 tons, and the Boeing 787 is a twin-engine passenger aircraft, and the thrust of one engine is equivalent to the thrust of 8 wind and thunder turbofan engines.

This 150-seat intercontinental airliner can be said to be a huge challenge, and at this time it is necessary to develop a large passenger aircraft of 100 tons. A passenger plane that flies across continents, the difficulty is quite large! However, the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex has the experience of developing a 100-ton aircraft such as the Holden H2 flying wing bomber, so it is still not too much of a problem to develop a passenger aircraft of the same weight.

The final design indicators are also shocking, if this airliner is successful. It will be a blessing for the world's air transport industry! It carries 150 passengers, the length of the aircraft reaches 38 meters, the wingspan reaches 36 meters, the width of the cabin reaches 3.8 meters, the maximum take-off weight is 100 tons, the maximum passenger range is 8,000 kilometers, and the transfer range is 10,000 kilometers. Such a range is almost 50 percent larger than that of a Boeing 737 of the same size, because its maximum take-off weight is more than 20 tons, so it has 14 tons more fuel than a Boeing 737. The total oil load reached 36 tons. Of course, it has a shorter range than intercontinental airliners such as the Boeing 787, but in this era, it is unique to have a large passenger aircraft with a range of nearly 10,000 kilometers.

It is more than the 8-engine giant propaganda aircraft AHT-20 "Maxim. The Gorky "is twice as big." АНТ-20 is a behemoth with a total power of 17,000 horsepower, a total weight of nearly 54 tons, a wingspan of 65 meters, and a capacity of 80 passengers. In terms of wingspan, of course. It was still larger than the Fantasy Intercontinental Airliner of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex, but that was because the Soviet Union's level of aviation technology lagged far behind that of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex. It had to be designed to be extremely ugly, because it used a piston engine with low power, its wing load was very small, and it was a low-speed aircraft, so its wing area was large and the wing thickness was also large. Of course, in terms of speed, it can't be compared with the Fantasy Intercontinental Airliner. There is a difference of several generations in the technical level of the two!

The Dreamliner has a wing-mounted engine layout, swept wings, and can reach speeds of up to 700 km/h. The fuselage is made of aluminum skin and has a sealed cabin, which makes it unprecedented in stability and comfort when flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

In the original history. The world's first large jet airliner was the Comet jet airliner developed by Britain after World War II, which was slightly smaller than the Dreamliner Intercontinental Airliner, with a maximum take-off weight of nearly 70 tons, but the Comet Airliner had major problems, and Xiao Weiguo certainly would not let those problems appear on the Dreamliner.

At that time, the cause of the "Comet" air crash was that there was not much understanding of metal fatigue at that time, and there was no corresponding countermeasure in the aircraft design, which caused cracks and expansion on the fuselage. The investigation of the accident made the aviation industry begin to pay attention to the influence of repeated pressure changes on the aircraft structure and to study the problem of metal fatigue, which laid the foundation for the later development of aircraft to solve the problem of metal fatigue. For example, the Comet airliner originally had square portholes, and when the airliner with a pressurized cabin took off and landed multiple times, cracks caused by metal fatigue appeared in the corners of the square portholes. Later, the portholes of passenger aircraft were rounded or designed with large rounded corners in order to reduce stress concentration and improve the fatigue strength of metal.

Morality? In developing the Comet, Havilland underestimated the technical problems involved in building a passenger plane that could fly higher and faster than ever before. Although there was a considerable margin of safety in the test, and the aircraft structure was tested with twice the normal pressure on the fuselage to ensure that it was safe in actual use, the crash proved to be far from sufficient.

Therefore, in the development of the Dream Intercontinental Airliner, the most advanced damage tolerance design method was adopted. This is also true for the Holden Flying Wing Bomber and the M40 Transport Aircraft, and for the designers of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex, they have been able to use these design methods with great skill.

In just two years, the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex sent the Dream Intercontinental Airliner into the sky! Such a speed can be said to be unique, and the birth of the dream intercontinental airliner has made the whole world crazy! The world's major airlines have thrown orders, and for a time even caused the price of various materials in the aviation industry to rise, because the number of these orders is as high as 2,000! Although the Dragon Soul Ordnance Consortium has built 8 new production lines for the Dream Intercontinental Airliner, which are in Stockholm, Chongqing, China, and Shanghai, China, it will take 8 years for these orders to be completed! Of course, the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex will earn billions of dollars through the Dream Intercontinental Airliner! (To be continued.) )