Chapter 639: Build an Airplane!
Chen Mo was not in a hurry to take out the spaceship manufacturing technology he had just obtained, but first established an aircraft manufacturing company, Aegis Aerospace Company.
As can be seen from the name, the construction of airplanes is only the initial goal of the company, and the final goal is to build a spaceship.
After all, it is not so simple to build a spaceship that is far ahead of the world, and the creation of the "Knight" was only completed on the basis of the acquisition of the original Taylor Motor Company.
A product as complex as a spaceship can be easily manufactured with technology.
The instruments, equipment, raw materials, components, personnel, technology, experience and other aspects involved are very large and complex, Aegis Automobile is now just just gaining a foothold in the international automobile market, although it basically monopolizes the top automotive field, but the scale of the company is still too small, with the company's current strength and heritage, it is not enough to support the construction of spacecraft in the short term.
Chen Mo is not in a hurry to build a spaceship, he is just taking precautions and preparing in advance, and it is a choice to carry out aircraft manufacturing business first.
On the one hand, it can cultivate and reserve a large number of aerospace talents, and at the same time complete the accumulation of relevant equipment, raw materials, technology, experience, etc., so as to lay a good foundation for the construction of future spacecraft.
On the other hand, aircraft manufacturing is the top field of manufacturing above automobile manufacturing, Chen Mo has now occupied the top position of the world automobile market pyramid through three super cars, in the short term, Chen Mo does not have the same plan to develop the low-end automotive field as Fengtian Group, so break through the automotive industry and continue to climb to a higher level of aircraft manufacturing pyramid, which is the best choice now.
There is no problem at all in terms of aircraft manufacturing technology, from the three super organizations of Hydra, S.H.I.E.L.D. and Wakanda in the world of "Iron Man", Chen Mo has obtained many cutting-edge technologies that far exceed the level of science and technology in the real world, which naturally includes aircraft manufacturing technology.
Even if he does not use the overly advanced Ark reactor, Wakanda vibranium technology and other cutting-edge technologies that are obviously beyond this world, and simply conventional aircraft manufacturing technology, Chen Mo can crush any aircraft manufacturing company.
S.H.I.E.L.D. can even build helicarriers, and Hydra was able to build the USS Valkyrie giant bomber as early as World War II, and the conventional aircraft manufacturing technology they have mastered is far ahead of the real world.
And Chen Mo, who has mastered such advanced technology, naturally has no great difficulty in building an airplane, but he still did not directly launch a large passenger plane as soon as he came up, but chose to manufacture small and medium-sized luxury business jets, and Chen Mo plans to build long-range supersonic luxury business jets!
In addition to the fact that the manufacture of small aircraft is easier than that of large passenger aircraft, and the manufacturing cycle is also short, which is suitable for early development, Chen Mo also has his own reasons.
Considering that it is impossible to wear a steel suit to quietly cross the Pacific Ocean to go home in the future, and always have to return to China in a normal way, and taking an ordinary plane is too much time, the entire flight takes a full ten hours, and a faster and more convenient private jet has become Chen Mo's best choice.
It's just that the fastest private jet that can be bought now can't reach the speed of sound, although many aircraft manufacturing companies claim to be developing supersonic private jets, but even if they publish data, this so-called supersonic speed has just broken through the speed of sound.
Chen Mo asked Jarvis to find the most reliable supersonic business jet Aerion AS2, a supersonic business jet developed by Aerion in cooperation with Airbus Group and NASA, priced at 120 million US dollars, with a maximum speed of only Mach 1.5, and a maximum range of only more than 8,000 kilometers, which can only be achieved in the case of subsonic cruise.
And most importantly, although this aircraft has already begun to be ordered, it has not yet completed all the test work, and it will take five years to deliver it at the earliest, so Chen Mo does not have the leisure time to wait for such a long time.
In five years, he took the parts and put together a one!
Don't forget, he's the man who made the steel suit with his own hands!
Since it was unrealistic to buy from outside, Chen Mo simply decided to build his own plane!
In view of his own needs, the development of the company, and the ease of manufacturing, Chen Mocai finally decided to build a long-range supersonic luxury business jet!
In fact, in addition to military aircraft, in the field of civil aircraft, there have also been two supersonic passenger aircraft.
One of them is the Concorde passenger aircraft, which is a medium-range supersonic passenger aircraft jointly developed by the French aerospace company and the British aircraft company, with a maximum cruising speed of 2.02 times the speed of sound and a maximum load range of 5110 kilometers.
However, due to the defects of the aircraft itself, there are often accidents such as tire blowouts, damage to the landing gear and rudders, and there has been a tire explosion during takeoff, tire fragments penetrating the fuel tank, resulting in a fuel tank explosion, and the plane crashed, resulting in all 109 people on board were killed, and 4 people died on the ground.
In the end, only 20 of the supersonic airliner were produced, and all of them were decommissioned shortly after the major accident, ending a brief period of commercial operation.
Another supersonic airliner is the Tu-144 supersonic airliner developed by the former Soviet Union.
This supersonic airliner has a maximum flight speed of Mach 2.35 and a maximum range of 6,500 kilometers, and its performance is better than that of the Concorde, but due to a series of accidents, the passenger flight has only been carried out for less than half a year, and the rest of the time is used for cargo and mail transportation.
Due to the strict requirements of supersonic flight on all aspects of aircraft performance, as well as huge fuel consumption, wear and tear of parts, and logistical pressure, although supersonic airliners have huge advantages over ordinary subsonic airliners in terms of timeliness, after these two supersonic airliners, no airline has launched supersonic flights, and even supersonic airliners have completely disappeared.
It is not until recent years, with the increasing demand for private jets, and in recent years, the explosive growth, the world's top business people and wealthy politicians have higher and higher requirements for the speed and timeliness of private jets, and major airlines have re-emphasized the development of supersonic passenger aircraft.