Rested for the night.

The next day, they left the headquarters of Infinity Company and, under the leadership of Zhao Gong and others, went to the mountainous area of the southwest hinterland.

He saw that several other pilots in the team, all of them had dark circles under their eyes, and they were obviously excited that they hadn't slept well all night.

The cordial reception of the leader made their blood boil even more, and they secretly swore in their hearts that for the sake of the common ideal, even if they gave up their lives, they would not hesitate!

Southwest mountainous area.

The size of Infinity's large equipment manufacturing base shocked all the pilots who came here for the first time.

Everywhere there were soldiers guarding, under the air defense net, looming anti-aircraft gun barrels, pointing to the sky.

In some flat places, anti-aircraft missiles can be seen on the launchers, ready for battle.

Every 30 meters, you can see soldiers patrolling, and security personnel wearing digital individual equipment, leading wolf dogs around the round.

According to the escort of the base, a few years ago, a foreign female spy actually crossed the perimeter cordon and sneaked into the edge of the base.

At that time, it was only through a hidden infrared monitor that he discovered the hiding place of the other party.

As soon as the other party finished shooting a film, the security personnel rushed over with the wolfdog and shot him dead before he could escape.

Since it is not known if the base has been exposed, the relevant security measures have been tightened ever since.

All people entering and exiting must go through multi-factor authentication and retinal comparison.

to prevent someone from using their identity to sneak in.

Entering the base, the living area on the outside of the valley, people who came here for the first time were intoxicated by the beautiful surroundings here.

The air is fresh in the mountains, and wildflowers are everywhere, and when you take a breath, your lungs are filled with sweet smells.

Entering the checkpoint on the valleyside, it was a different story.

Their first impression is that it is a long, straight runway!

In order to verify that the aircraft can take off and land better in the atmosphere, the runway has been lengthened and widened, and the current length is several kilometers longer than the previous data collection machine test.

Reached fifteen kilometers.

The car drove on the road on both sides of the runway, only to find that the runway was almost half a waist higher than the road outside.

The degree of firmness can be seen.

On both sides of the mountain, near the mountain wall, there are factories standing one after another, and the roar of machines is heard.

The factories that remained outside are now all used for the manufacture of aerospace aircraft-related parts.

Dozens of factories have adopted automated production lines and robot operations to ensure that the accuracy of parts and components is within the allowable range of error.

Only the engines were manufactured at the African base and shipped back to China by ship.

Near the bottom of the valley, at the gate of the base in the belly of the mountain, they saw two extremely large factories.

On the left is the airframe manufacturing plant, which is specially shipped from the African base for large-scale manufacturing equipment that is used to form the airframe in one step.

On the right is the final assembly shop, which also serves as a hangar for aerospace aircraft.

The total length of the aerospace aircraft is 98 meters, so the two factories are also extraordinarily huge, spanning nearly 300 meters, and are formed by the merger of the two factories.

In the final assembly workshop and hangar, they saw the aerospace plane that they had seen countless times in their dreams.

In the virtual world, they already know what the final appearance of the aircraft will look like after it is manufactured.

But at this time, looking at the silver-white fuselage and feeling the unique metallic luster, everyone lost control of their emotions and rushed to their car.

Standing in front of the aerospace plane, they deeply realized the enormity of this flying machine.

Approaching a ten-meter-high fuselage, if it was just a number, they did not have an intuitive feeling.

But at this moment, standing in the nose of the machine, looking up at the slightly upturned nose, they felt that this guy was so tall.

It's like standing on the ground and looking up at the top of a three-story building.

Looking from the nose to the tail, the long body gradually expands to the sides, resembling an acute triangle.

The nose is like an arrow!

The jet pipe at the tail of the aerospace aircraft is as thick as the common cement cylinder pipe.

The volume of the combined engine occupies one-third of the position of the entire aerospace aircraft, and the latest alloy match developed by Yan Lao is the alloy material used in the final finalization of the engine.

Compared to the 10-meter-long data collector, each engine has the inefficiency of working at full power for dozens of hours before being scrapped.

Using a new alloy, the engine has a theoretical life of 826 hours and can carry out at least a dozen transatmospheric flights.

If used properly, it can also achieve an ideal service life of twenty or thirty times.

In this regard, the cost of using the space shuttle is much lower than that of the space shuttle.

But despite this, it did not meet the requirements of the Utopian plan, which required hundreds of round-trip flights.

The materials department of the African base is still conducting in-depth research.

Now that they have a photonic computer, their research is progressing at a rapid pace.

But there are still countless formulas that need to be verified by them.

Some of the virtual studies have already produced results, but in order to ensure flight safety, they also have to conduct a large number of practical tests to obtain more accurate and reliable data.

In order to help them with their research, more than half of the researchers in the materials department of Infinity have gone to the African base.

The main direction of the research of the materials department that remains in China is more to commercialize research.

In the middle section of the aerospace aircraft, it is a cargo compartment composed of opening and closing devices.

The cargo capacity of the aerospace aircraft has reached 37 tons, although it is somewhat insignificant compared with the weight of the fuselage of more than 100 tons, but considering the special fuselage shape of the aerospace aircraft, it is not very suitable for flying in the atmosphere.

To break through gravity, there must be sufficient fuel support.

This cargo data is already very high.

If you want to build a large space station, you often need to transport hundreds of tons of materials to outer space, relying on the 37-ton payload of the aerospace aircraft, you will need to fly more than 20 times round trip.

For this reason, the aerospace aircraft, to say the least, also scrapped two engines.

So, for those who know about the utopian plan and have expectations for it, they know that the space plane is only the first step in the plan.

In order to establish a base on the moon, in addition to the transit space station, a large amount of construction materials need to be transported over.

This inevitably requires the addition of a space shuttle dedicated to Earth-Moon flights.

It is still very difficult to achieve this goal for the time being.

Interstellar voyage, how difficult.

There are so many unknowns that people need to explore.

Two weeks after Zhang Yan arrived at the base, after sufficient rest and state adjustment, the official flight test began.

Overall, the prototype has been tested in a virtual world and verified by the data collector.

It's just that none of the previous tests were manned.

What is it like for pilots to actually control the aerospace plane, which needs to be experienced by the pilots themselves.

Zhang Yan and each of them wore heavy load-resistant compensatory space suits, and with the assistance of the staff, they sat in the cockpit.

When the aerospace plane accelerates, the overload is extremely large, and if it is not protected by special clothing, it is undoubtedly suicide.

In fact, it is a combination of a variety of special equipment, which has a variety of effects such as anti-overload, anti-immersion, anti-cold and anti-space radiation.

In a large overload environment, the regulator of the anti-load suit will automatically inflate the garment and adjust it according to the needs of the human body

Air pressure forces blood to try not to rush into the lower body to ensure the normal supply of blood to the head.

To put it bluntly, a spacesuit is a sealed environment that creates a pressure-balanced environment to ensure that the pilot will not be harmed.

Moreover, the spacesuit also needs to protect the pilot from various rays, micrometeoroids, high and low temperatures in space, and provide oxygen to the astronauts.

The whole set of joint clothes is made of a variety of special materials, and its own value is as high as 20 or 30 million yuan!

Zhang Yan and the others felt that their bodies were tightly bound by the joint suit, and it was very inconvenient to move.

But they also knew that the suit looked clumsy in the atmosphere, but light when they entered a microgravity environment.

Aerospace planes are not fighter jets and do not need to stay in the atmosphere for too long, as long as the acceleration goes up, they will start the rocket engines and send them to low orbit.

Their cockpit is also tilted backwards.

This is also to allow pilots to be able to resist greater loads.

Zhang Yan and other five pilots have all gone through a year and a half of high overload practice, and the highest overload has reached ten G!

In the case of the highest overload, only he and another pilot can keep a clear head and control the space plane.

Some pilots even fainted directly during the high overload simulated flight.

Fortunately, the monitor noticed their physiological dysfunction and quickly stopped the simulator and rushed them to the ambulance department for rescue.

It is the simulation exercises that have undergone arduous training and are almost rigorous.

Only then did they have the confidence to fly this state-of-the-art aerospace aircraft into space.

All the pilots meticulously checked the instrumentation.

Although they all know that these meters have been very carefully checked and will never go wrong, no one will joke with their lives.

From the day they became pilots, there was not a single negligent power.

Unless life is a child's play!

"Power control room, everything is normal!"

"Cabin instruments, check normal!"

"The hatch is closed, all cabins are controlled, everything is normal!"

"Life support system, working properly!"

From the various working positions of the flight team, the inspection reports of the pilots came, which sounded in Zhang Yan's helmet headset.

To his right, another pilot also finished the inspection and reported to him: "The main control room instrumentation is normal!" You can take off!"

Zhang Yan checked the LCD screen one last time, and all the instruments and meters showed a normal green light, before turning on the microphone and reporting to the tower:

"The Aerospace 1 special service team has reported that we have completed preparations, all instruments and meters are operating normally, and we have requested to enter the runway!"

In the headset, the voice of the tower came: "The tower has received, all signals are normal, the sound is very clear, the runway has been cleared, and entry is allowed."

The hangar door slowly opened to both sides.

A ray of sunlight slanted in from outside the gate, gilding the silver-white body with a golden yellow.

"It's been a nice day!"

Zhang Yan pushed down his hand, the fuselage trembled slightly, and the engine began to work.

In front of me, there is a clear blue sky.

Free to read.