During the Authority meeting, Luo Jia decided to use the Starship team to create an intra-atmospheric transportation plan.

Codenamed 2, the Starship team is part of the entire space program of Xingchen Technology, and when the space station and space elevator are completed, the next step is the lunar base, which requires large intergalactic vehicles to complete tasks such as traveling back and forth between the Earth and the Moon, transporting people and minerals, and going to more distant deep space exploration.

The starship team has been preparing for long-distance movement between galaxies, and this galaxy vehicle has been slightly modified and put into operation on the earth without any problems, and there is even a suspicion of overkill, after all, the construction standard of starships is obviously higher than that of ordinary aircraft.

Swish~

The special plane with the Xingchen Technology rotating galaxy badge landed in the wind, this is Bayannur, a lonely city hanging in the grassland outside the Saiwai, and it is also the station of the starship team.

The helicopter sent Luo Jia to the research institute in the open area outside the city, here and Jiuquan, both of which are the largest research centers occupied by Xingchen Technology, with a steel roof that stretches for several kilometers, and under the gray roof, those unknown huge steel monsters are planned and produced.

Luo Jia, who stepped off the plane, saw the person in charge, Bu Mobei, an upright northwest man, from the neck above the neck because of frequent ultraviolet radiation, turned red, black, red and black, and the company's researchers are generally otaku attributes, mostly small white faces, Dr. Bu is very conspicuous in the crowd, and he is also very old.

Bu Mobei's actual age is only twenty-nine years old, he is not married yet, but everyone thinks that Mr. Bu's baby must have been able to herd sheep, if he is given a white towel tied to his forehead, and then take a dry pipe, squatting in the sun in the corner of the wall, it is the image of the old farmer in northern Shaanxi in the book.

"1969 is a special year for the world's aviation industry, because in this year, major aviation powers simultaneously launched the development of a new generation of fighters, including the former Soviet Union Su-17 and MiG-27, North American F14, European Tornado and so on."

Bu Mobei adhered to the good habit of straight men of steel, no nonsense, and didn't even say hello to Luo Jia, he directly took Luo Jia under the huge steel roof, and said in a very fast tone: "In addition, the Harrier vertical take-off and landing fighter independently developed by the United Kingdom was also successfully put into service in 1969. ”

"Compared with other fixed-wing aircraft, vertical take-off and landing fighters do not need airport runways, which fundamentally changes the contradiction between high and low speed flight, and the maneuverability and combat capability are also quite good, which is an important milestone in the history of aviation development."

"Many people have heard of the Harrier fighter, but few people know, in fact, in August 1969, China also began the secret research and development of vertical take-off and landing fighters, codenamed the No. 4 mission, by Shenyang 601."

Luo Jia nodded lightly, there are many people in the company who are aerospace majors, but there are only people who are completely obsessed with this career like Bu Mobei, he is a living aerospace encyclopedia.

"And then?" Luo Jia asked.

"Lost, lost." Bu Mobei said with unwillingness to sigh: "After all, at that time, we didn't even have high-temperature resistant special titanium metal, and the high-lift engine required for vertical take-off and landing was impossible to talk about. ”

"Since then, we have given up the research and development of vertical take-off and landing fighters, and to this day, the number of vertical take-off and landing fighters in our country is still zero."

Luo Jia said with a smile: "Lao Bu, I didn't say that we wanted to build fighters, our goal is civilian aircraft." ”

Bu Mobei nodded lightly, "I know, but I just can't help but sigh, I think back then, my teacher was a member of the No. 4 task force, responsible for calculating the culvert, he often recalls the past in front of me, you may think that his old man's past must be very exciting, like an epic and magnificent?" But no. ”

"The thing that the teacher recalls the most is that he was very poor, he had no tools, he knocked on the wings with a hammer, he was very hungry every day, he hoped that the canteen could make pork stewed vermicelli, and he hoped to eat white noodles.

"Why do you say this all of a sudden?" Luo Jia asked.

Bu Mobei said lightly: "It's nothing, after receiving your call, I couldn't help but think of the teacher's words, vertical take-off and landing is a good thing, it can solve a lot of problems, and it can also be used to pretend to be forced, the teacher failed to knock out the vertical take-off and landing plane with a hammer back then, let me be a student today, and do it for him." ”

Luo Jia frowned, "What did you mean when you said you could still pretend to be forced?" ”

Bu Mobei rolled his eyes, "You told me on the phone that this project is an air bus, a new product belonging to the automobile system, and the production is also in cooperation with the three major automobile factories." ”

"And then your old man has formulated a few standards, to take off and land vertically, to cruise at Mach three, to be no less than 30,000 meters of ceiling, to have a variety of active and passive safety systems, you yourself said, is there a bus in the world with a cruising speed of Mach three?"

"The standard you set is more than the most advanced reconnaissance fighter in the world, the SR-71 Blackbird, but the name is Xingchen Bus, what can it be if this is not pretending? Other people's top-notch flying machines are not as good as our buses, which is really outrageous. ”

Puff~

The surrounding researchers couldn't hold back their laughter.

Luo Jia is going to get a big guy that surpasses the Blackbird reconnaissance plane, and then declares that it is a bus, and does not report to the European and North American air traffic control bureaus, and directly sells it all over the world in the name of the bus.

If Xingchen Technology really does this, it will definitely drive the Western aviation industry crazy.

Further, if Luo Jia is not happy one day and sells this kind of super air bus to anti-American organizations, they can directly break the North American air defense chain and enter the interior with a little modification, in that case, the whole United States will probably have to live in fear, and they will hate Luo Jia to death.

"That's what I want." Luo Jia said bluntly: "You have been in Inner Mongolia, you don't know much about the situation outside, the struggle has gradually become white-hot, and the methods of the two major air traffic control bureaus in Europe and North America are very insidious, on the one hand, they promise to issue airworthiness certificates, and on the other hand, they are delaying time and forcing commercial aviation to do all kinds of tests." ”

"Then why don't you get rid of them!" Bu Mobei said bitterly: "The Tao is not the same, it is a big deal, we can do it alone!" ”

Luo Jia shrugged his shoulders, "It has taken so long and invested so much money and resources, how can the large aircraft project be withdrawn casually, and selling our aircraft to the world has been the dream of commercial aviation people for many years, and the West has seized this point to make the commercial aviation group in a dilemma." ”

"A few days ago, when I went to COMAC, I happened to meet officials from the European and North American air traffic control bureaus, according to my observations, the future may not be optimistic, although I also think that a community with a shared future for mankind is a great plan, but the facts always tell us so ruthlessly, non-my race, its heart will be different."

While the two of them were chatting, they walked into the huge factory building, where the main product being manufactured was the space dock.

Due to gravity, Centron Technology will not assemble a starship on the ground, but will build a spacedock on the Zero space station, send the manufactured parts to a synchronous orbit through an elevator, and then assemble the starship in the spacedock.

The space dock adopts a modular design, which is still relatively scattered, is a pile of parts, only after all the combinations, can appreciate its unique charm, there are three planned space docks, two small and medium-sized docks are nearing completion, and the design of the large dock has also been finalized and is waiting to be put into manufacturing.

"Spacedocks and starships can be built, and flying buses are no problem, right?" Luo Jia asked with a smile, he thought that the name of the flying bus was good, compared to the flying saucer in the atmosphere, the flying bus had more pretentious attributes.

Bu Mobei nodded, "There is no problem, the starship originally requires the ability to enter and exit the atmosphere, after all, we have to anchor and leave when we drive the starship to other planets." ”

"Now the company requires vertical take-off and landing in the atmosphere, which is actually a simplified version of Starship, removing the space navigation part, reducing weight, increasing passenger space, replacing ion propulsion with ultrasonic turbine thrusters, and so on."

"In fact, after receiving the notice the day before yesterday, I took someone to modify a regional subsonic passenger plane overnight, and the result was very smooth, considering the technical capabilities of the three major automobile factories, it is not difficult for them to complete the task of manufacturing regional airliners and short-haul passenger aircraft, but the mainline passenger aircraft with Mach three speeds, I am afraid we can only build it ourselves."

The so-called regional airliner is the meaning of the passenger plane in the province, which sends passengers from various prefecture-level cities to the central city, and then connects with supersonic mainline passenger planes between about 30 central cities in the country, so as to form a domestic transportation network extending in all directions.

As for the short-distance passenger plane, it is used to connect the districts and counties, using low-altitude flight, 30 kilometers away, two minutes to arrive, short-distance passenger planes do not need to build airports and stations, but where there is a piece of cement floor, can be parked, very flexible and convenient.

Traffic is like the blood vessels of the human body, the arteries and capillaries are indispensable, after some discussion, the CEOs of the three major automobile factories received a call from Luo Jia, Luo Jia warmly invited them to come to Inner Mongolia to see the new "bus" of Xingchen Technology.