Chapter 198: Traffic Transformation

June 3, 2016, Traffic Test Center, Ministry of Science and Technology.

Leaders at or above the ministerial level of the Special Committee gathered on the rostrum of the large experimental site of the test center, a ground-effect aircraft was parked in the main square, and on the west side of the square were many temporary cement equipment, such as buildings, rolling hills, and a wide river that had been dug.

Before the end of the world, ground-effect vehicles mainly sailed on the surface of the water or flew at low altitudes on the water, and all countries in the world had ground-effect vehicles, all of which were in the experimental stage.

This situation arises, on the one hand, because there is still immaturity in technology, and on the other hand, because other means of transportation already have a huge number of equipment advantages.

Among them, the second huge number of equipment advantages not only leads to the fact that the ground effect aircraft can not be focused on development and equipment, but also leads to the fact that many new equipment can not be put into use.

The most obvious example, the computer keyboard used by human beings is actually in a very unreasonable order, if replaced with an ergonomic keyboard, it can greatly improve production efficiency, but after people consider the cost of a comprehensive replacement of the new keyboard, the cost includes not only all the letter marks of the keyboard that have been used to be changed, but also all the input and output devices related to the keyboard to be changed, so I can only rationally give up this rationalization idea, and this problem has been extended to the end of the world can not be solved, Only the space equipment launched by the Special Committee uses a newly designed keyboard, but some experts warn that after ordinary humans go into space on a large scale, it will bring problems of inconvenience and may even cause accidents.

There are also more new equipment that can be modified as much as they like because there is no longer a problem of continuity before and after the end of the world, such as the problem of transportation, and the resumption of production of automobile factories is similar to the operating cost of new vehicles, which has aroused the interest of the special committee, not to mention that the ground effect aircraft has been improved to the extent that it can sail on land or fly.

So this is a revolution in transportation, so that human beings no longer have to spend huge sums of money to repair roads and railways, nor do they have to think about the resettlement of a huge number of road maintenance workers, which in the past would have caused strong social unrest and led to the miscarriage of new equipment.

The ground effect aircraft used for the report demonstration is like an airplane, but the fuselage is much more spacious, there are 8 engines in front, 4 on both sides of the nose, and 4 engines behind the fuselage, when flying, the 8 engines in front of the aircraft suck the air into the belly, and use the 4 engines in the back to provide forward power, the whole aircraft is 120 meters long, 50 meters wide, weighs 200 tons, can load 100 tons, and the load-bearing ratio is far more than that of the aircraft.

The energy consumption is much lower than traditional methods such as airplanes and cars and trains, because the ground effect aircraft does not have to overcome ground friction at all, nor does it need to provide lift to its huge body.

This finalized cargo ground effect aircraft is named Land Camel I, and combat and civilian models will be developed in the future.

The Land Camel 1 can be adapted to hilly areas with a concave and convex degree of no more than 100 meters on the water surface, and can fly to an altitude of 3,000 meters if necessary.

Li Fengyi and others watched the land camel type 1 take off smoothly in the main square, and carried out various action demonstrations in the large square within a radius of 10 kilometers, the land camel type 1 can reach a speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, the range can reach 15,000 kilometers, the action is flexible, and the requirements for the take-off and landing site are not very high, as long as the landing site does not exceed the concave and convex ground of the landing gear height, and the landing gear height is 25 meters.

Facing the west side of the square, everyone held up the binoculars, watching the huge land camel fly in the complex row, through the hills, across the river, flying over the building, when landing, the land camel's automatic navigation equipment will be suitable for landing on the ground on the digital map display, the land camel adopts Beidou navigation, and the fully automated equipment allows the crew to complete all operations with only 5 people.

Land camels specifically demonstrated landing and take-off on the hills, proving how widespread its applicability is. The plane landed in a large cement triangular cone with a height of about 100 meters, just enough to accommodate itself, and the height was no more than 20 meters.

According to the prior arrangement, the ground effect aircraft research and development team will win the first prize for scientific and technological progress after the demonstration, and the top leadership of the special committee will hold an award ceremony for them on the rostrum that will be broadcast live in the area of the special committee. ,

After the R&D team landed on the Camel 1, they successively walked off the plane from the gangway stretched out of the ground effect aircraft, and excitedly walked up to the rostrum, they will get a great honor, and it is inevitable that they will be recorded in the history of human development, and they will be side by side with the Wright brothers who invented the airplane.

Li Fengyi and the others had already given a standing ovation and greeted these heroes of mankind with a smile.

Ground effect aircraft will be finalized in the future, and widely used in human beings, mainly on various occasions of the Special Committee, trains, cars, airplanes and even tracked armored vehicles will be canceled, roads throughout the land, airports, bridges across the river will become history, will leave a large area of land available for human use, recall that a large amount of land before the end of the world has been built into a wide road where grass does not grow, consuming a lot of land, not to mention materials, and a lot of manpower is needed to maintain, these can finally come to an end.

At the same time, the consumption of steel and cement will also be greatly reduced, and even the traffic control department has begun to argue whether the ground effect aircraft should belong to the traffic police management or to the aviation department, how to formulate traffic rules, people imagine the ground effect aircraft flying in the sky, it feels too poetic, it may be very unskilled at the beginning of use, there may be black smoke falling, at this time I also feel that it is very embellished with this scene, too poetic!

The companies in the society are moving when they hear the wind, and strive to become the future transportation giants, among which the automobile manufacturers are the most active, and there are many business representatives stationed outside the Ministry of Science and Technology's Ground Effect Flight Research Institute, always waiting for the latest news to come out, and no one dares to blatantly carry out bribery, because such a big change, there have long been various media reporters concerned.

A total of 15 people participated in the research and development of the ground effect research and development team, led by a person less than 40 years old, in the first scientific research reform of the special committee, or another person received this research and development task, his technology is recognized by colleagues as the best, but unfortunately in the year-long research and development process, he was not able to organize and coordinate well, changed generals halfway, and then these research and development personnel freely elected this person as the team leader, and then the former team leader stayed in the research and development team to continue to engage in research and development activities, made outstanding contributions.

This fully shows that a good R&D personnel will not necessarily become a good technical manager.

In the view of Li Fengyi and others, this is just like the election of the village committee, if the elected person is incompetent, then listen to everyone's opinions, change it, it is light if you don't work, and if you don't do it, there will be a tragedy of bloodshed and suppression.

A conference staff held a tray full of medals, and Li Fengyi awarded them the first prize of scientific and technological progress one by one, and also praised everyone for their good students.

The last to receive the award was the team leader, at the moment when the medal was handed to the team leader from Li Fengyi's hand, there was a loud noise in a power laboratory behind the rostrum, only to hear a loud "boom", everyone turned their heads to look, only to see that the roof of the largest test plant in the area was cracked, and the broken tiles and bricks mixed with concrete blocks continued to fall in the sky, making a crackling sound.

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