Chapter 295: Sukhoi

Ishihara's first plan was rarely unanimously praised by the top brass of the Japanese army and navy, and even the most fanatical militarists among them knew that fighting a war would burn money, and now a considerable number of Japanese people could no longer eat rice, and the grim domestic economic situation could be seen.

As for the second plan proposed by Ishihara, because the senior generals of the Japanese Army are very enthusiastic about the huge expansion of the army of 1.5 million people, and the vice minister of the War Department, Hideki Tojo, has always regarded Ishihara as a thorn in his side, and he believes that "whatever the enemy supports, I will oppose." Even those who knew that Japan could not swallow all of China in one fell swoop thought that it would be more beneficial for Japan to force Chiang to negotiate peace after a brilliant victory in the new battle, and therefore did not accept it in the end

Shen Honglie and other naval officers and men all objected to it after knowing it, but the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese War was important, and everyone had to obey, and Hu Weidong's idea of building an army with "flying and diving fast" as the core was indeed more pragmatic, so the mood of the Third Fleet was quite stable, but it was not until Hu Weidong assured that the two heavy cruisers (the Zhumo was renamed "Jingyuan" to commemorate Lin Yongsheng, who was martyred in the Battle of Dadonggou. After absolutely not selling, Shen Honglie finally let go of the heart he was carrying

Due to Hu Weidong's request, Tupolev and his entourage arrived in Qingdao first by plane, Hu Weidong learned that Sukhoi was uninvited, and he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, this is one of the top aircraft designers in Shijie later, and his achievements are even above his teacher Tupolev, and this guy is getting older and more powerful, and he is definitely a god-level figure

In fact, Luoyang Aircraft Factory is indeed in urgent need of such a genius in aircraft design, yes, Wang Zhu, who served as the chief designer of Boeing, was undoubtedly an outstanding aircraft designer, but he has been out of the front line for nearly 20 years before returning to his old business, but as soon as he came up, he was asked by Hu Weidong to be responsible for the design and completion of the two aircraft with Shijie's leading level, the difficulty can be imagined, if Hu Weidong did not directly give the basic design plan, I am afraid that there has been no great progress until now. When Hu Weidong went abroad, although he also hired a lot of experts, there were no first-class outstanding talents among them. As for the new generation of aircraft designers trained by China itself, not to mention, even the first batch of students is estimated to have at least a few good seedlings to participate in aircraft design work in the year after tomorrow. However, the aircraft design work must not be delayed, the aircraft that was originally full of advanced aircraft, if it was launched late because of the lack of excellent aircraft designers, it would have no advantage, and even lagged behind the times, so Hu Weidong was really overjoyed about the arrival of Tupolev and Sukhoi, you must know that even Tupolev, he was not sure that Stalin would definitely let him go, not to mention that there was a more powerful Sukhoi?

Sukhoi was directly appointed by Hu Weidong as the chief engineer of the Luoyang Aircraft Factory, fully responsible for the development of J-1 and H-1, and he couldn't help but shine after learning the design ideas of these two aircraft, "Even if you count the resin coating, the average density is less than 04g/cm^3, which is only one-seventh of aluminum alloy, and the structural strength and surface hardness are not inferior to ordinary steel. The designer should have committed suicide and apologized."

If it weren't for the fact that there were basically no paulownia trees in other countries except China, including the Soviet Union, and there was only one type of paulownia wood among the lightweight wood, which could be strengthened with epoxy resin surface, Sukhoi really wanted to send a telegram back to China immediately and strongly recommend this new material to his colleagues. If it is not limited to lightweight wood, there are some other kinds of wood that can be applied to similar jishu, but those are basically the so-called "iron wood", not to mention the difficulty of processing, the density is several times greater than paulownia wood, and the current production cost of epoxy resin is relatively high, if the performance is not superior enough, the economy will not be able to draw, especially those wood itself is very strong, epoxy resin surface strengthening jishu has no value at all, On the contrary, it is more convenient and economical to use it directly to build airplanes

And what also surprised Sukhoi was that the Central Plains Border Region had developed a quality (not only referring to power, but also taking into account fuel consumption, afterburner, volume and other properties, just in terms of power, no country's aircraft engines were bad during World War II. Aircraft engines that were much better than Soviet products made him even more confident, knowing that even if it was a junk design, as long as it had a strong heart, the performance of the aircraft would generally not be much worse. And Hu Weidong was also a little Sukhoi woke up, although there is still a certain gap between the aircraft engine produced by the Luoyang Engine Factory and the genuine Merlin engine produced by the British Rolls-Royce company, but compared with the Soviet aircraft engine that is still very rubbish, both power and reliability are more advantageous, he can't help but have a thought, "Maybe these engines can be sold to the Soviets?" On the one hand, it should be able to earn a lot of foreign exchange, and on the other hand, industrialized mass production can also promote the research and development of new products."

Although Hans designed a series of excellent aircraft during World War II, but because the engine has not been powerful, the German designers had to sacrifice extremely important range to ensure that other flight performance is not pulled away by the advanced level of shijie, but it suffered in the air battle of Britain, and for the strongest navy of the British, the short-legged Luftwaffe was helpless against it, and in the late stage of the war, The fighter pilots of the United States and Britain have learned to take advantage of this weakness of the German fighter planes and deliberately delay time in air combat (the American and British planes are fast, and before the jet planes appear, as long as the American and British planes seize the high altitude and do not give the enemy the opportunity to dive and accelerate, the German planes are basically impossible to chase, and when the German planes return from fuel, they are chasing and killing, so that countless German ace pilots are suffocated to death

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