Although each country brought its most advanced aircraft, it caused a huge sensation when two M29 jets and two M30 business transport planes from the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex landed on the airport!

Of course, the M30 business transport aircraft is not so unusual, as it is already in service with the world's major airlines, and most of the people attending the event have flown in this aircraft. The most shocking is the M29 competitive jet.

The aircraft was unveiled at last year's Stockholm International Defense Exhibition, when it was only a static display, and because the engine had not yet been installed, it could not go to the sky at that time, and could only be seen in the pavilion. But now, it's on the 4th International Air Competition! This shows that it has completed test flights and is an aircraft that can enter mass production.

You know, jet aircraft has always been something that all aviation powers are very eager to have, but its technical difficulty is so high that big countries like Britain and the Soviet Union are only just beginning to work on it, and Germany has another company working on it, but none of the companies have made any substantial progress, it is too difficult. The requirements for design, materials, production processes and other aspects are too high.

In the case of the Soviet Union, in 1929, Academician Stephkin published his "Theory of Aerojet Engines". In addition, the "Jet Propulsion Research Group" was established in Leningrad and began to conduct pre-research on cutting-edge sciences such as electric rockets and liquid-fuel rocket propulsion. This was a typical activity in early Soviet jet propulsion research. On June 27, 1932, the All-Union Research Institute of Aeronautical Materials was founded. Its focus is on the continued development of promising aluminum alloys and heat-resistant alloy steels. On July 9, the USSR Defense Committee made a forward-looking decision: to extensively study turbojet engines and strive to put them into practice as soon as possible. On February 18, 1944, the USSR State Defense Committee announced the creation of the "First Scientific Research Institute". Its role was to develop the jet engine of the "future".

The Lavochkin Design Bureau put into design a kind of adoption by А. М。 An experimental fighter with a jet engine developed by Rurika as the main propulsion. It is also interesting to note that the Soviet Union, like some other advanced aviation countries, developed so-called "internal combustion engine/compressor" jet engines in 1944-1945. This strange engine, which uses a small piston power to power a set of air compressors, was one of the prototypes of the modern turbojet engine. Such an air reaction propulsion power plant was flown on Mikoyan's I-250 and Sukhoi's E-5 test aircraft. It is rumored to reach a maximum speed of 814-825 kilometers per hour. Of course, experiments like these can only be short-lived.

On August 15, 1945, Kochetkov, head of the Fighter Test Department of the Scientific Research Institute of the Soviet Air Force, personally flew the Me262 jet fighter captured from Germany on "the first (turbojet-powered) jet flight in Soviet airspace." At the same time, they dissected the wartime German jet bomber Ar234 and its power plant. In such a situation. In 1946, the Soviet government made a decision to promote the development of jet aviation. Stalin also held a special meeting on April 2 to discuss the question of how to use German specialists. In the same year, as the first step in the development and development of domestic jet engines, the factory successfully copied the Jumo 004 and BMW 003 axial turbojet engines shipped back from Germany, and their Soviet models were called Elder-10 (РД-10) and Elder-20 respectively, and were installed in the middle of the fuselage of subsonic fighters Yak-15 and MiG-9, respectively. Moreover, the deliberate test flight of these two significant aircraft on the same day marked the success of the localization of Soviet jets, although technically imperfect.

In 1945, the Soviet Union developed its own design of the Tair-1 aviation turbojet engine. Later, it conducted brief flight tests on two aircraft, the Su-11 and the Il-22. It was also the first experimental axial turbojet engine developed by the Soviet Union itself, with a thrust of 1,350 kg, designed by engine master Rurika.

Now, jets are appearing in the world so quickly, which is incredible to all aviation companies. However, as industry insiders, all the representatives of aviation companies participating in the competition. All keenly smell the smell that jet aircraft will replace propeller planes in a large area. Especially in the military field, jet fighters can definitely overwhelm propeller fighters in terms of performance, and the jet age is coming!

However, although everyone is aware that the jet age is coming, they can't design and build jet engines themselves, so they want to continue to develop in the aviation field. It is necessary to obtain the jet engine or jet engine technology of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex. One way is to buy the jet engine of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex directly, and the other way is to buy the jet engine technology of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex.

Of course, more aerospace manufacturers are leaning towards the second approach. Because if you buy someone else's jet engine directly, you will be subject to others. For example, if the company wants to design a jet aircraft, it needs to design according to the existing jet engine performance of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex. Or rather, the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex was entrusted with the supply of a jet engine that met their requirements. In this way, it will definitely suffer in terms of price, because there is only one company in the world that can provide jet engines, and there is no choice at all, in such a situation, the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex can sell as much as it wants, and these aviation manufacturing enterprises have to accept it.

And if it is possible to buy the jet engine technology of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex, then these aviation manufacturing enterprises can produce the jet engine of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex under authorization, and can also learn the jet engine technology in the production process, so as to design and manufacture new jet engines on their own. In this way, it will break the monopoly of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex. Therefore, many aviation manufacturing companies also understand that it is more difficult to buy the jet engine technology of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex, and who would want others to take a piece of the pie! (To be continued.) )