"We're going to combine and study with anti-gravity vehicles?"

"But we are working on SMES batteries, and even though there has been a lot of progress, it is too early to be fully used......

"Who said the merger? Academician Wang Hao? That's fine."

……

"Duan Gong, you're not kidding, are you? and superconducting batteries?"

"Are we really going to develop a flying machine? But will it work on the battery pack?"

"Of course, I'm not questioning Academician Wang Hao, but it's too ......."

"I don't understand at all!"

Both the anti-gravity vehicle research group and the SMES battery research group were a little confused when they heard the news that they were going to merge the research, and they really couldn't understand why they did this.

The main content of the two research groups can be said to be future science and technology, but neither of them has completed research, let alone mature technology.

The design of some aircraft really requires the study of various technologies together.

For example, fighter jets.

The design of a fighter jet needs to take into account various technologies, especially engine performance is a must be considered.

However, SMES batteries are not the same as aero engines.

Aero engine technology has matured in the world, and the most advanced ones have even begun to develop the fifth and sixth generations, and China also has perfect aero engine technology.

SMES batteries are different, they don't have mature SMES battery technology yet.

The anti-gravity vehicle research group has just started research, and they have not perfected the anti-gravity vehicle design system, but only have some technologies under development, such as lateral anti-gravity technology, relatively mature electric propulsion, and balance and automatic control systems that are being improved, and so on.

In short, anti-gravity aircraft are too much worse than fighter jets.

Neither group could imagine working together.

After Wang Hao decided to combine the two studies together, he immediately convened the core technical personnel and held the first meeting.

The leaders of the two groups, Liu Mingkun and Duan Qingbai, came to the conference room early, and they talked about it with surprise and puzzlement.

Liu Mingkun asked curiously, "Your aircraft design has been completed?"

"Not really."

Duan Qingbai hurriedly waved his hand and said, "What is done, it's too much worse, last time we just did the suspension test of the anti-gravity device, and the suspension is not stable."

"Not a take-off test?" Liu Mingkun asked a little puzzled, and when he finished speaking, he knew that he had asked a very stupid question.

Takeoff?

In the absence of sufficient power supply, the anti-gravity device also has to connect to the ground with wires, and it is impossible to take off.

Duan Qingbai smiled bitterly, "Looking at Academician Wang Hao's posture, it feels like being a fighter jet, gathering the technical team together, and then studying it together......

"But it's too much!"

He asked, "How are you guys doing over there?" It's said to be progressing very quickly."

Liu Mingkun also shook his head, "If you want to say that the research progress is indeed very fast, our new energy storage coil has passed the charge and discharge test, but it is only this technology."

"That is, you don't have a way to provide SMES batteries that you can use?"

Liu Mingkun's expression was a little exaggerated, and he stretched out his hand and asked, "Duan Gong, do you think it's possible?"

「…… It really can't be." Duan Qingbai tugged at the corners of his mouth.

What technology is SMES battery?

This kind of superconducting battery technology is simply unthinkable.

Even if there is some progress in research, it can be said that it is the top international scientific and technological achievement, and it has been at the forefront of human science and technology.

While the two were talking, Wang Hao also walked in from the door.

He had already listened to it a few times, and then said directly, "Duan Gong, Professor Liu, you don't have to worry, we are not designing fighter jets."

"Academician Wang!"

"It's coming!"

Duan Qingbai and Liu Mingkun hurriedly stood up.

Wang Hao waved for them to sit down, and he also sat next to him and said, "I just heard you compare the design of fighter jets, but they are actually completely different."

"We don't need to consider flexibility or high power issues when designing anti-gravity vehicles, nor do we need to consider radar performance or combat modules, we have only one purpose, to make anti-gravity vehicles fly."

"Even if it's just like a civilian drone, it can do a simple take-off and fly at a low speed, and that's enough."

Duan Qingbai and Liu Mingkun listened and nodded together.

If you just let the anti-gravity vehicle fly, without considering other factors, it is indeed relatively simple, and it is enough to only consider power and balance.

It's like putting a battery on the drone, and when it is powered to drive, it is enough to make the drone fly.

Think about it......

It seems to be really easy...... A P!

Motivation, how to solve it?

Duan Qingbai and Liu Mingkun couldn't help but tug at the corners of their mouths, even if the R&D goal sounds the simplest, it is necessary to use SMES batteries, that is, superconducting batteries.

The simple reason is that only superconducting batteries can provide a continuous high power supply.

That's where the hardest part becomes.

Wang Hao did not continue to explain, but waited for others to come to the conference room before announcing the official start of the meeting.

The meeting begins.

Wang Hao asked the two team leaders to introduce the technology they mastered.

The first to stand up was Liu Mingkun, who said seriously, "We already have usable energy storage coil technology, which can make the energy storage coil charge and discharge normally under human control."

"We've already tested this technology for several rounds, including high-power delivery tests."

"But for the time being, it can only be controlled manually, and many factors, including monitoring and power adjustment, cannot be automated."

To put it simply, they have mastered the energy storage coil technology at the heart of the battery, but the accompanying control system is not yet complete, let alone the manufacture of a complete superconducting battery.

After that, Duan Qingbai also stood up and talked about the skills he had mastered, and he mainly talked about the test he had just completed.

After the leaders of the two research groups finished talking about the technology, Wang Hao spoke, "I know that many of you are wondering why our two groups are working together to do research."

"Actually, everyone should know that the research of SMES batteries is prepared for anti-gravity vehicles."

It's a fact.

However, most do not link the two study groups.

Many people think that the SMES battery research group mainly focuses on SMES power storage technology, rather than really developing superconducting batteries, but they did not expect SMES power storage technology to be completed soon, and only then officially started SMES battery research.

In addition, the anti-gravity flight supported by SMES battery power sounds a little too sci-fi.

Even if everyone thinks that anti-gravity technology represents the core technology of aviation in the future, after all, it is 'the future', and it will only be possible to realize the aviation application of anti-gravity technology until a lot of related research matures.

It's too early to talk about the development of anti-gravity vehicles.

For example, the SMES battery has not yet been developed, and the power is not talked about about the aircraft?

Wang Hao continued, "The main reason why I decided to put the two research groups together is that we already have the charging and discharging technology of energy storage coils."

"That's enough!"

"A lot of people might think that we can't make a working SMES battery yet, but we don't need to do that."

Wang Hao said seriously, "We don't need to make perfect SMES batteries, and anti-gravity aircraft don't need perfect SMES batteries."

He stood up and walked over to the whiteboard

Before, he drew a sketch of an anti-gravity device, and then said seriously, "Let's look at this sketch map, this is the anti-gravity device, and the dotted line drawn next to it is the area covered by the horizontal anti-gravity."

"What can you find out from this picture?"

The people in the conference room were stunned, they didn't understand what Wang Hao was going to say.

Liang Jingye thought about it and said, "Except for the center location, there is not enough space for batteries in other areas?"

"That's right!"

Wang Hao gave Liang Jingye a thumbs up, "Xiao Liang is right, superconducting batteries are also very heavy, and in terms of current technology, even if it is reduced to a few tons, it may even exceed ten tons."

"Most of the weight is concentrated on the energy storage coil, and the coolant also takes up some of it."

A large number of superconducting metal materials, stacked to form several large coils, are of course very heavy.

Wang Hao continued, "So we don't have to think about making a perfect battery and connecting it with the anti-gravity device, but embedding the battery into the anti-gravity device."

He said and drew a circle with his pen.

"There is a gap in the middle of the superconducting material of the anti-gravity device, and the largest gap in this circle, more than a meter away, is enough space to place a small energy storage coil."

"Then we can fill the first circle with energy storage coils, which can also play a balancing role."

"In addition, everyone pay attention to the outer circle, which is more than half a meter away."

"We can make the outer space into a cooling box, and we can fill it with highly compressed liquid nitrogen."

"At present, the critical temperature of the materials used in anti-gravity is about 100 K, and the critical temperature of the materials used in energy storage coils is less than 150 K."

"Did you find out?"

"We can combine the cooling devices used to support the anti-gravity field and the energy storage coils to form a system."

Wang Hao began to explain carefully.

He explained the core design, mainly in anti-gravity and superconducting batteries, using superconducting technology, but using different superconducting materials.

The critical temperature of the superconducting material used in the energy storage coil is 46K higher than that of the material used in anti-gravity technology.

Both need to be cooled during operation, so they can share a cooling system.

First, let the coolant enter the anti-gravity system, discharge and then enter the energy storage coil system, and the two can be effectively combined.

Of course, the energy storage coil cannot be in the same system as the anti-gravity force for a long time, because the energy storage coil is to be charged.

However, the process of heat release from the energy storage coil mainly lies in the discharge process, which requires a lot of coolant to flow continuously, so the charging system can be made separately.

To understand it simply, the two ends of the energy storage coil system can be closed and charged on the ground.

When the whole system is in operation, it enters the discharge mode, and the two ends can be connected again, and the anti-gravity device can be shared with a cooling system.

This makes it possible to combine an anti-gravity device with an SMES battery.

After Wang Hao finished explaining, the conference room fell into a short silence.

Everyone who looked at the design content on the whiteboard was very shocked, and they didn't think about this kind of joint design problem at all.

Now embedding a superconducting battery into an anti-gravity device is definitely a very superb design, completely combining the two systems.

They no longer have doubts about joint research and development, but are very much looking forward to joint research and development work.

……

Everyone in both study groups is very motivated.

They could see that Wang Hao really hoped to be able to develop an anti-gravity flying machine, and he also showed full confidence.

Since Academician Wang Hao is so confident, what else do they need to think about too much?

One of the biggest difficulties is the overall design, and the other is the electronic system.

Whether it is quench monitoring of superconducting batteries,

Power regulation, or aircraft balancing and automatic control systems, can all be grouped under the 'electronic system'.

Soft technology is key.

In terms of the overall design of the aircraft, they also have to argue about the driving force, and there are a number of other technologies, including the problem of electric propulsion, the design of a single rotating fan, the circular wrap around the landing gear, and so on.

Through a series of demonstration meetings, Wang Hao quickly determined the main design scheme, the aircraft will adopt the design of eight electric propulsions, of which four electric propulsion can achieve multi-directional twisting, on the one hand, it is an auxiliary balance system, on the other hand, it is also used as a drive for lateral propulsion.

The other four electric propulsion machines are only responsible for lift-off, landing, and balancing systems.

After the main design scheme was determined, several technical groups began to coordinate and cooperate to carry out detailed technical research work.

What the study group had to do every day was to hold a demonstration meeting --

Liu Mingkun: "The independent charging system of the energy storage coil can open a special pipe above it to independently charge and maintain the cooling system."

Duan Qingbai: "The four electric thrusters under the main compartment can increase the direction of rotation, but the background control will be more complicated."

Leung Ching-ye, "During the flight, we can reduce the cooling temperature appropriately to ensure the safety of the power output process. of"

Hao Jun: "We can still add a single-fan design, and when we fly to a certain altitude, we can turn off the balanced electric thruster, which will make the aircraft more flexible."

……

Constant research, constant argumentation.

The design of the anti-gravity aircraft can be said to be progressing every day, and the design of each part of the aircraft is constantly improving when a design plan is finalized.

Soon.

A month has passed.

The day's meeting determined the design of the main compartment and decided to independently build a raised main compartment above the center of the anti-gravity device.

This ensures that pilots in the main cabin control will not be affected by lateral anti-gravity and cause health problems.

After the design of the main cabin is completed, the design of the entire aircraft is completed, and the perfect composition can be carried out on the computer.

Luo Yongjun of the aircraft group is responsible for the overall composition, and after each design plan is determined, he will compose the plan according to the plan and record all the contents.

After the design and composition of the main cabin is completed, the composition of other parts can be reduced and the external composition of the aircraft can be completed.

Luo Yongjun put all the parts together, and also added a layer of gray skin to the outside to cover up the complex equipment inside, and completed the concept map of the aircraft.

After completing the last step, Luo Yongjun kept staring at the concept map of the screen, his eyes didn't move, and he didn't even hear the person next to him shout.

Duan Qingbai shouted dissatisfiedly, "Luo Yongjun, what are you doing? Aren't you done? Print!"

"Oh, oh, got it."

Luo Yongjun was a little flustered and hurriedly operated the printing picture.

Duan Qingbai walked behind him, saw the concept map on the screen, and couldn't help but shout in surprise, "Isn't this a UFO?"

This shout stunned several people in the office.

They all came to see it right away.

The concept art on the screen has a raised prototype main compartment, and below it is the main disk, because there are various devices in the center of the disk, and there is also a passage into the main warehouse, which makes the center appear bulging.

At the end of the two sides of the disk, there are only superconducting lines of the anti-gravity system, and there are no other devices, which looks thinner.

The disc lowering occupies the largest space with the circular landing gear, as well as the passage of the main compartment, which also protrudes from a piece.

So look at it as a whole......

Duan Qingbai pointed at the screen with his mouth half-open, and sighed in surprise again, "This is a UFO!"