Chapter 199 Leapfrog Development
"Can this engine be fitted to a Sabre?"
Yang Feng asked Heinkel next to him.
"No problem, it's much thruster much larger than the J35 that Sabre is currently using and even lighter, and if it were mounted on Sabre, it would have a lot more performance, but it would also require a lot more air intake."
Henkel said.
"It's simple, just add an auxiliary air intake, but this engine, I'm afraid the thrust is still small when used in the fighter we developed, right?"
"It's really small, if you want to propel our Tiger Shark, you have to have a minimum thrust of more than five tons, and it's just normal thrust, if you want to achieve the maneuverability you require, then you have to have at least seven tons or even more than eight tons of thrust, so that you can achieve a thrust-to-weight ratio of one to one in air combat."
"If you add an afterburner, how much thrust can this engine reach?"
Yang Feng asked the engineer.
"A little more than four tons."
"In other words, it's barely possible to get our prototype to make the simplest test flight."
"Pretty much it's not a big problem to fly some simple actions without installing equipment such as cannon radar, and it takes time to build a prototype, which is enough time for us to improve it."
"Okay, let's put this engine into production, and when the drawings and accessories of the Chinese people are sent, you are responsible for modifying the design drawings to use this engine, and your task is to improve it and install afterburner. In short, by the end of this year I will see the Sabre with this engine in the sky, and at the end of next year I will see an engine with afterburner, thrust of more than four tons, and preferably five tons, installed on my Tiger Shark prototype. There are rewards for completing missions. Remember, your boss is very rich and generous. ”
Yang Feng said to his two team leaders.
Both team leaders are Chinese. The chief engineer of Tenglong Engine is Wu Zhonghua, who Ye Qisun helped him pull back from the United States, and the couple came together, and his wife Li Minhua was the head of the department at the Institute of Aviation Industry.
Although the head of the aircraft design team is Heinkel, in fact, the main work has been transferred to Xu Shunshou, who was pulled by Ye Qisun from the bald man's aircraft research institute, although Ye Maniac has a bad reputation in science, but the identity of the head of the physics department of Tsinghua University makes his students so terrifying.
In fact, many Chinese scientists have been brought in over the years, including Chern Shiingshen, who is also at Nanyang University. Now Yang Feng's people are persuading Wu Jianxiong and her husband Yuan Jialiu to go to Nanyang University together in the United States, but the identity of the Queen of Physics is sensitive, and the United States government has to nod it, after all, she participated in the Manhattan Project.
If she and her husband come over, Yang Yuan would be able to set up his own atomic energy development agency, and then find uranium mines to get centrifuges.
For Yang Fuhrer's words, including the British engineer, everyone smiled, in the Ming Empire, the status of a scientist was extremely respected. As long as it is a scientist with a Ph.D., in addition to a high salary. It is all equipped with villas, high-end cars and even servants, even if it is a foreign country to work temporarily, as long as you come to match this set first, in the middle of the mountain with the best scenery in Yingtianfu, this kind of villa alone, Yang Yuantou has built more than a thousand.
Not only that, but it is also extremely respected in other aspects, government officials and university professors appear together on official occasions, and government officials must be half a step behind, which is stipulated by Yang Feng himself, and he himself does this, and even the license plates of these professors and doctors are different, and government official cars, even military vehicles and police cars, must give way when encountering such license plates.
It is precisely because of this special respect that the Ming Empire, although far away in the South Seas, still makes scientists from all over the world yearn for it infinitely.
"Führer, when renovating the engine, can you use those special materials of yours?"
When Yang Feng left, Wu Zhonghua chased forward and asked.
Yang Feng's special materials, that is, his titanium alloy and composite materials, each of these two things have a processing plant, both of which are in the military restricted area of a nearby island, and are currently only produced on a small scale, processing some aircraft parts, which are used to replace the parts that need to be replaced on the fighters and bombers of the Air Force, which can not only improve their performance, but also train workers, but this engine is done with the British, if it is used, then it is equivalent to letting them know these things, so Wu Zhonghua must ask.
"Don't use composite materials for the time being, titanium alloy can be used casually, the United States people are also engaged in this thing, it will be put into production in a few years, and the Conway engine we are partnering with Britain must also use this if it is to be completed on schedule. Also, I just opened a precision casting factory, using a similar ancient lost-wax method for investment casting, you can take our people over and see this set of techniques you may need. There are also a few special machine tools with relatively high precision, that you and Lao Xu can take a look at it, this is an electronically controlled linkage machine tool, specializing in processing some special complex curved surface parts. The people of the United States may have just started to develop, we are unique in at least three or five years, this is your head of state and I make money, let's try not to let too many people know first. ”
Yang Feng said with a sinister smile.
He is a few CNC machine tools that use transistor components and early printed circuit board control, which is equivalent to the level of the late fifties in the United States, and the earliest CNC milling machine in the United States has just begun to develop, and it was the first to appear in fifty-two years, and the performance is relatively poor, including investment casting technology, which has just begun to appear, which is indispensable for the aero engine industry, and it is also the guarantee that he will let his scientists improve the engine to the level he requires in a short period of time.
He just wants to let Rolls-Royce know that he has high-performance alloys and special manufacturing processes in his hands, and when the two sides cooperate in the development of Kangwei engines, these can be used, so as to ensure that the turbofan engine of Aikang Company can be developed in five or three years.
In fact, the jet engine is not the most important thing in terms of design, otherwise Whittle would not have been able to design it with his own enthusiasm for invention, and the most important thing is the materials and processing technology, which needs to be supported by an industrial system. In the fifties, the aero engine industry developed wildly, and almost everything that should have appeared in the past ten years, the turbojet thrust has skyrocketed from more than two tons to six or seven tons, the thrust-to-weight ratio has skyrocketed from two to five levels, and even turbofans, large culverts have all appeared, and fighter jets have skyrocketed from a few tons to more than ten tons or even more than 20 tons, relying on the improvement of materials and processes, titanium alloy in five and four years, and numerical control in five or two years These are the most important driving forces behind the scenes.
And now, if Yang Feng wants to complete what he needs, he must also rely on these things, if he can't do it, he can only use composite materials, but this is a bit ruthless, this is all in the late sixties, when Luo Luo was planted on this thing and even died once, if it were not for the help of the British government, Luo Luo, the name of the aviation industry trembling in later generations, would have completely disappeared.
Now his composite materials are only controlled at the level of glass fiber and resin, but the efficient pultrusion process is used, and it has not yet reached the point where carbon fiber is so terrifying, and at this time, glass fiber composite materials are not rare, but they are limited by the production process, and they are all hand lay-up stages, so they are not as cheap as him.
For these things, he also took great pains, not only to search for them all over the world, to brush machines all over the world, but also to let Vera build a data model of the production process, and to let those beautiful robots use the machines according to the data model in the Voyager and make real products. Then he moved the machines to his factory, and the beautiful robots taught the workers how to use them, and even had to teach the basics to some selected college students who could rest assured until they fully understood the principles and production processes of these things.
In short, the factories on the small islands around Ying Tianfu can be called the crystallization of Yang Yuan's hard work.
Fortunately, his university education in these years is really powerful, especially Nanyang University has cultivated a large number of knowledge-based talents for him, and the most difficult time is in the past.
Moreover, many factories have been decommissioned over time, and the degree of secrecy has been reduced and has begun to gradually move to the industrial zone of Shuntian, and some of the things that he doesn't look down on now have even been taken out to buy people's hearts, and he only needs to keep a part of the shares and wait for the money.
In fact, in his plan, except for some special lifeblood enterprises, his factories are to be lifted step by step, after all, his enterprises are actually similar to state-owned enterprises in the era of planned economy, but they are all the latest technology, so there is no market competition pressure at all.
He has no pressure from his opponents at all.
But the disadvantages of this kind of enterprise are gradually revealed, such as lack of innovation, rigid management, lazy workers, and corruption, especially this problem is getting more and more serious, fortunately his whipping is also very useful, in Daming this crime is to whip.
Once there is a competitor in such a company, it will be miserable.
So the easiest way for him is...
Sell.
Seeing that foreign competitors were about to appear, he simply kept some of the shares, and then sold them to the Chinese capitalists who depended on him to manage them, and threw them directly into the market of free competition.
Over the years, he has sold a lot of factories, and in the stock exchanges of Yingtian, Temasek and Hong Kong, those investors are waiting for him to sell factories every day!
The original instant noodles, plastic toys, down jackets, organophosphorus pesticides and compound fertilizers that had just been sold recently, and even the arsenal that made the G3 rifle was thrown out to the market a few days ago, but he still retained 40 percent of the shares and was the majority shareholder, just like what is being done in British Gaul and other countries now.
It's just that he nationalized in this way, but he did privatization in disguise in this way. (To be continued.) )