Chapter 537: They Build Airplanes, We Build Flying Saucers!
Luo Jia went to COMAC because of the large aircraft project, and after getting off the car, he met President Li He in the exhibition center, he led two tall and fat white people to visit, and after asking, he learned that the white man was an official from the European and North American Aviation Administration.
If COMAC wants to sell the aircraft to the world, it must first get the airworthiness certificate issued by Europe and North America, but Luo Jia found that things do not seem to be so simple, and in the consideration of competition, Europe and North America are not willing to issue airworthiness certificates, they seem to be deliberately making things difficult.
With a slight smile, Luo Jia took the initiative to greet him, introduced himself, and learned that the official sent by the North American Air Traffic Management Bureau was called Farrell, and the European Air Traffic Management Agency was called Collins.
The eyes they looked at Luo Jia were not friendly, after all, in the context of the Western media, Luo Jia, the leader of the Iron Straight Men's Group, is a notorious demon who desperately cracks down on Western industries, and also hires a large number of rogue lawyers to carry out legal siege against competitors, which is very hateful.
"The test flight will take place over the East China Sea, and we have prepared a ground propulsion demonstration and a full range of monitoring installed on the test aircraft to give you a more complete picture of the aircraft's performance." Li He explained to everyone.
Test flight is a more dangerous thing, except for the two test pilots, the rest of the crew members are robots sent by Xingchen Technology, Luo Jia They are remotely observed on the ground, thousands of sensors will collect a lot of data, establish a test flight model, and according to the collected data, find hidden problems.
After leaving the exhibition hall, Luo Jia saw his own aero engine in the empty yard, although Xingchen Hangfa also uses a turbofan structure, but the energy comes from electricity, and the engine is an ultrasonic motor, not a traditional internal combustion engine.
The rest of the aircraft is consistent with the design of the past, but with the efforts of Xingchen Technology, a lot of localization has been done, the flight control is written by the software department, the fuselage is customized by the Materials Research Institute, the main control computer, landing gear, tires, and even the cabin seats are from the chemical fiber factory under Xingchen Chemical.
Western technology has also used some, such as Musk's Starlink, I have to say that at this stage, Starlink is really a miracle existence, the only Starlink network on the earth, if the plane wants to connect to the Internet at an altitude of 30,000 feet, there is no other choice, in addition, airspeed tubes, static pressure holes and other small parts are also used in imports.
I don't know why, Luo Jia just didn't have a surprise, and felt that everything in front of her was so bland that it was terrifying.
Ultrasonic motors are obviously a weapon created for the era of the universe, nicknamed space motors, and have stronger capabilities, but they are limited to subsonic flight.
With so many unique technologies, the plane looks no different from what it looked a few decades ago, with prosaic gliding take-off and landing, prosaic rotor steering.
Ay~
Luo Jia frowned, as a person who would die without innovation, he really didn't have any interest in this kind of aircraft products that only switched from fuel to electricity, and the rest of the design was still the same as that of the last century.
The engineers excitedly introduced the excellent performance of the large aircraft, but what Luo Jia saw was overkill.
What makes Luo Jia even more dissatisfied is that Western experts point fingers, test according to their standards, and comply with the rules they have formulated, and all decisions are in the hands of the West.
On the way back to the company, Xu Chunbiao was still driving, but the atmosphere in the car was much more depressed than when he came, Luo Jia was thinking, Shen Lang also looked at the river outside the window and was silent for a long time, Xu Chunbiao felt the difference between the two, so he chose to shut up and did not disturb them.
Just returned to the company in silence, got out of the car, Shen Lang was about to go to the office, but Luo Jia planned to go back to the meditation center to lie down, he always had to lie down when he studied, and then open more and more folders in his mind, with the continuous transmission of the golden dome over the years, Luo Jia's learning pressure was also increasing year by year, and he had to spend more than half of his time on learning new knowledge.
"How do you feel about the Big Plane project?" Luo Jia asked Shen Langdao.
"I think it's always a hassle for projects that we don't have full control over." Shen Lang scratched his hair with a smile and said, "If it were our own project, the result might be different." ”
It seems to be an inconsequential sentence, but it makes Luo Jia's eyes shine, it is worthy of a rare military genius, Shen Lang said the most important thing in his words, the project of the large aircraft is not led by Xingchen Technology, so it is impossible to run through their will in the project, which is the source of all troubles.
Assuming that Xingchen Technology is the main body of the large aircraft project, will they care about the difficulties of the West?
Obviously, no.
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Early the next morning, the Authority held a regular meeting.
Luo Jia was rarely late, when he entered the conference room, the others had been waiting for a long time, Cao Yuan even took out a handheld and played, although Xingchen Technology has been trying its best to resist the invasion of foreign culture, but for those cultural influences that have long been ingrained, it will take time to change.
For example, Nintendo's handheld, in the context of rampant mobile games, the handheld, a product of the invention of the last century, has gradually become a niche, but it is still supported by die-hard fans like Cao Yuan, and they will never abandon it, which is the power of culture.
Nokia, which was once extremely powerful in the field of mobile phones, collapsed immediately once the product failed, but the influence of culture can last for several generations, including Luo Jia himself, who still likes to watch Japanese comics, which shows that it is no joke to call culture the world's first hegemon.
"Sorry, I'm late." Luo Jia said with a smile, this approachable boss has always had no shelves, and he will review what he does wrong.
"Stayed up all night, huh? You look like your face hasn't been washed. An Ran looked at Luo Jia's gray face and muttered.
In fact, in recent times, Luo Jia's mental state has been much better, and since discovering the secret net, Luo Jia has mastered the ability to play and learn in his sleep.
Landing on the secret net is a kind of thinking withdrawal, the body is obviously resting, but Luo Jia's mind is learning, and he can even use the flower of reincarnation to go to the Azure Star County where Lan Yu is located, so the situation of studying all night has been greatly reduced.
"Yesterday I went to see the big plane with Shen Lang, and I had some ideas, so I made it overnight." Luo Jia explained.
Everyone was slightly stunned, and it was inevitable that there was a little more expectation in their hearts.
There is breakfast prepared by the Administration Department in the conference room, both Chinese and Western, rich in variety, after all, the regular meeting of the Administration is also called the breakfast meeting, several leaders take advantage of the time to eat breakfast, get together to communicate, the meeting is short and fast, do not delay other work.
Luo Jia picked up a set of pancakes and fruits with her left hand, pulled it over the whiteboard with her right hand, and wrote quickly.
"Our plans are going to change." Luo Jia said in a deep voice: "According to the company's predetermined goal, first solve the problem of superconductivity, then lay superconductor roads and railways, and finally realize magnetic levitation, although this plan is perfect, but it takes too long." ”
Everyone nodded, Xingchen Technology, as the world's largest scientific research group, they have a lot of plans, and maglev belongs to the long-term planning, which takes more than ten years, after all, even if there are cheap enough superconducting materials, the large-scale transformation of roads and railways is not an easy task.
The reality is not, the emergence of magnetic levitation, must first solve the problem of superconductivity, cheap and can be mass-produced superconducting materials, is the pre-technology of magnetic levitation, not in the car to install a few high-power electromagnetic coils.
After eating the pancakes, Luo Jia drank a few more sips of mineral water, and then said to everyone: "To solve the problem of airplanes, we don't necessarily have to learn from the West to build airplanes, we can also use other things to kill the planes!" ”
Kill the plane?
Everyone was surprised, obviously their thinking was impacted, but it was not surprising that Luo Jia had always had whimsical habits.
"Yes, we have to think about the question, what is the essence of an airplane?" Luo Jia looked around the audience, and then said in a deep voice: "The essence of the plane is transportation, as long as we can achieve fast and ultra-long-distance transportation, whether we use an airplane or a dumbo, the result is the same, it is nothing more than to send people and goods from one place to another in the shortest possible time." ”
"The problem now is that we don't have the right to speak on airplanes, and if we build airplanes, we have to meet Western standards and be stuck by them."
"So we have to find a different way, take a path that they haven't walked and can't care about us, overtake them in a corner, get rid of the so-called Western standards..."
Luo Jia talked eloquently, everyone listened to the blood boiling, corner overtaking, has always been the habit of Xingchen Technology, in the face of the rules formulated by the West, Xingchen Technology broke the rules again and again, forcibly overtaking, leaving countless legendary wonderful records.
There was silence in the conference room, and everyone was waiting for Luo Jia's decision, and they were very excited.
However, when Luo Jia said what he expected, everyone was taken aback.
"Since the West controls the product of airplanes, then we don't make airplanes, we make flying saucers!" Luo Jia said in a deep voice.
Puff~
When everyone heard this, they almost sprayed, what the hell is a flying saucer? Got too much sci-fi?
"I knew you were going to think things wrong." Luo Jia shook his head and said: "I admit that the name UFO is influenced by science fiction and magazines, some gimmicks, to be precise, my plan is called Butterfly VTOL Convenient Public Transportation System." ”
VTOL!?
There were all smart people present, and they quickly found out the key point from Luo Jia's words, a flying machine that can take off and land vertically, wouldn't it be even necessary to have an airport?
Modern airports are often dozens of kilometers away from the city, and it takes a long time to go back and forth, which is a huge pain point.
Wait a minute.
Luo Jia also said another word, public transportation?
Could it be that he intends to use vertical take-off and landing flying saucers to create a new mode of transportation?
If this mode of transportation is successful, it will not be a matter of modifying the aircraft, but of changing the entire transportation system!
Big plan!
It's a big plan!
Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but look at Luo Jia, only to see a sunny smile on his face.
"The West doesn't want to subvert their aircraft hegemony for us, so we will give him the entire transportation system!" Luo Jia said with a slight cold gaze.