So, everyone walked into the conference room. The conference room has already been arranged, and even Fang Lang's seat has been marked with a name plate, obviously the Ministry of the Air Force has been prepared for Fang Lang's arrival.

Seeing this scene, Fang Lang could only glance at General Nairo Mora, and when he saw that the other party was still looking at him with a smile on his face, he also motioned for himself to take a seat.

Fang Lang could only smile helplessly, since he had already entered someone else's territory, it was definitely impossible to leave again. As the old saying goes, when you are powerless to resist, it is better to lie down and enjoy it, and now Fang Lang already has this mentality.

He strode over to the place with his name written on it and sat down. Seeing this, the others smiled slightly and sat down.

General Nairo Mora even sat directly next to Fang Lang, and after everyone was seated, the chief of staff of the Air Department, Lyinhard Gifford, took the lead in getting up and said some words to welcome Fang Lang's arrival, and soon got to the point.

A young officer, who looked to be in his early thirties, got up and came to a wall obscured by curtains, and General Nairo Mora turned his head and whispered to Fang Lang beside him:

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"This is an officer sent by our Air Department to Fangyuan Aviation to follow up on the manufacturing of the trainer aircraft, called Leo Kanter."

Fang Lang looked at the other party's rank was a major, nodded, didn't say anything, just quietly looked at the curtain that was being slowly opened.

I saw that behind the curtain it turned out to be a rendering of an airplane, but at a glance, Fang Lang recognized this aircraft, which was a new generation of training aircraft designed by his own airline commissioned by the Ministry of the Air Force and his own naval aviation.

The drop-shaped cockpit located above the wings is very eye-catching, and as the first self-developed aircraft of its own aircraft factory, Fang Lang certainly attaches great importance to it.

For Mr. Tan Ke, the designer of the FW190 Mozu fighter jet, which has already been designed and tested in actual combat, redesigning a propeller trainer is really a matter of hand.

Even, the other party has repeatedly expressed to Fang Lang that he is unwilling to continue to design propeller aircraft, and asks to directly mount jet fighters, repeatedly emphasizing to Fang Lang that jet aircraft are the future.

Of course, Fang Lang will not have any doubts about this, but now the aircraft manufacturing company of Fangyuan Group is obviously just starting, and there is no way and no technical strength to meet the requirements of directly launching jets.

I could only do ideological work with Mr. Tan Ke with hard work, and after repeated communication, I finally agreed to change the original design of the piston engine into a more advanced single-shaft turboprop engine.

It not only meets the needs of propeller trainers, but also actually intervenes in the research work of jets in advance, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

According to what Fang Lang learned, two prototypes of this aircraft have been assembled in the aircraft laboratory of Fangyuan Group and are in the testing stage, and two other airframes for static and fatigue tests are also ready for assembly.

I just don't know, what is the purpose of the Air Department today?

While Fang Lang was thinking, Major Leo Kanter was already pointing at the plane with a whip and began to explain.

"According to the latest information we have just learned from Fangyuan Group Aircraft Manufacturing Company, the T-1 trainer aircraft we commissioned to design and manufacture has completed the assembly of the prototype.

The wingspan is 11.14 meters, the length is 9.86 meters, the height is 3.40 meters, the aspect ratio is 6.4, the wing area is 19.40 square meters, the maximum take-off weight is 3000 kg, the maximum level flight speed is 400 km / h, and the maximum cruising speed is 386 km / h.

The maximum climb rate is 11.3 m/s, the practical ceiling is 9000 meters, the take-off and running distance is 380 meters, and the landing running distance is 370 meters.

It is equipped with a turboprop engine independently developed by the Power Research Laboratory of Fangyuan Group, with 1500 shaft horsepower. ”

When everyone in the conference room heard this pile of data, they all began to talk about it, not because they were dissatisfied, but because it really exceeded everyone's expectations. General Nairo Mora was even more satisfied, after all, the project was carried out at his suggestion.

As the boss of the company, Fang Lang was of course proud, and the action of poaching people from Germany was really a good move!

Fang Lang was not surprised at all to be able to successfully manufacture this prototype, and what really satisfied him was the turboprop engine independently developed by the Power Research Laboratory.

You must know that the successful development of this engine means that Fangyuan Group Aircraft Manufacturing Company has the ability to manufacture jet engines independently.

This is of great significance to the future development of Fang Yuan Group's aircraft manufacturing company! It was not in vain that he tried his best to find talents in engine manufacturing from Germany.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but start applauding my wise decision.

Hearing Fang Lang's applause, the people around him also reacted instantly, and they began to applaud warmly, and General Nairo Mora next to him applauded excitedly while patting Fang Lang's shoulder.

This huge force instantly pulled Fang Lang back from his narcissism, and felt the force coming from his shoulder, Fang Lang scolded in his heart, what a bad habit is this, if you want to shoot something, you can shoot yourself! Why are you filming me? It hurts, you know?

But General Neiro Mora obviously couldn't hear what Fang Lang was thinking at the moment, and his whole eyes were deeply attracted by the aircraft drawings on the wall, this was not the first time he had seen this aircraft drawings.

However, every time I see it, I have new feelings, and the more I look at it, the more I feel good-looking, and the more I look at it, the more I like it, if it weren't for the worry of confidentiality, he would want to hang this drawing on his bedside and sleep with him every day.

The applause rang for a long time, and then it slowly stopped, and Major Leo Kanter, who was standing to introduce the performance of the aircraft, saw that everyone was quiet at home, and then slowly spoke again:

"Of course, the research and development of the aircraft is not overnight, smooth sailing, after a few days of test flights, we have also found some problems, today here to put forward, but also want to solicit everyone's opinions, to see how we choose."

These words made Fang Lang frown, he had been following up on the issue of destroyer approval in the Admiralty for the past few days, and he really didn't have time to pay attention to the test flight of the aircraft.

Now I heard this Major Leo Kanter say that some problems were found during the test flight, and I couldn't help but be a little worried.

Most of the people present looked at Major Leo Kanter, wondering what had been discovered. Fang Lang couldn't help but look at General Nairo Mora beside him, is this old boy waiting for him here?

I don't know what the specific problem of the plane is, I hope it is not irreversible, and it needs to be reversed.

Feeling Fang Lang's gaze, General Nairo Mora didn't have any special expression, just smiled and approached Fang Lang and whispered:

"Why, I haven't paid attention to this project these days!"

Fang Lang nodded when he heard this, and seeing this, General Nero Mora didn't say much, but continued to whisper:

"Don't worry, it's not a big deal."

The heart that was being carried by the waves below was slightly put down, and I couldn't help but think that with Professor Tanke's ability, the propeller aircraft designed should not have any irreparable defects!

Fang Lang, who wants to understand all this, calm down and wait for the following.

A bearded officer at the table had already been impatient and said directly to Major Leo Kanter:

"Tell me what problems you found?"

Seeing this, Major Leo Kanter stopped selling the guanzi and said directly:

"After this period of test flights, we found that although this turboprop engine is advanced, its service life is only 150 hours, which means that every 150 hours of use of the aircraft needs to be overhauled or replaced.

This will greatly increase our cost of use. ”

Hearing this, Fang Lang couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, he thought it was some irreversible big problem! It turned out to be this thing.

As early as after the power research laboratory successfully studied the core engine of this engine, after the first landing durability test, this problem has been reported to him.

The first core machine at that time only worked for less than fifty hours before its power dropped and it needed to be overhauled.

Fang Lang knew very well in his heart that this was because Brazil had not accumulated enough basic materials to achieve such a result. He wasn't surprised by that.

When the Germans first invented the jet engine, they didn't have the same problem. It is not terrible to find a problem, as long as you can find the problem and solve it little by little, the problem is no longer a problem, but a step to improve your knowledge.

Therefore, of course, Fang Lang will not give up, not only did not blame the researchers, but gave more encouragement, greater support, and more financial investment.

It also authorized the power research laboratory to set up its own materials research center, looking for experts in materials science from all over the world, and concentrating on serious research on new materials.

At the same time, the power research laboratory will also disassemble the engine, a little bit of research, continuous improvement. Eventually, when the prototype was assembled, the engine operating time was extended to 150 hours.

In Fang Lang's view, this is a great progress.

But for the officers of the Air Force, this is indeed a very serious problem, after all, an engine that needs to be overhauled after 150 hours of work does dissatisfy many people who expect him to be durable.

So, soon everyone started talking.

"What? The engine only worked for 150 hours before it was overhauled. What can I do if we start a war? ”

"Yes! The cost of this repair is not low! That's not going to work. ”

"Is it that the technology of the new engine is not yet mature?"

"I think it's still their company's strength, or let's try to buy engines from the United States!"

Everyone, you and I are talking about it, Fang Lang doesn't mind when he sees this, for him, it is the greatest success to be able to solve the problem now.

You must know that this is a turboprop engine, and now there are only a handful of countries in the world that can manufacture this kind of engine, as long as they can insist on investing and solving the problem little by little, the service life of the engine will be extended a little bit.

Then this aircraft manufacturing company of his own family has a chance to become one of the world's aviation manufacturing giants.

General Nairo Mora, who was sitting next to Fang Lang, seemed to be worried that Fang Lang would have some bad thoughts when he heard these discussions, and turned his head to Fang Lang and whispered to Fang Lang:

"General Fang, don't mind, these reckless people don't understand the benefits of this new type of engine at all."

Hearing this, Fang Lang turned his head and glanced at the other party, and said noncommittally:

"It doesn't matter, the technology of this engine is really immature, and we must accept everyone's opinions realistically.

I don't know, what is the idea of His Excellency the General?

Please rest assured, I am a person who distinguishes between public and private, and I don't need to take my personal relationship with Fangyuan Group to heart, if you have any thoughts, please feel free to tell me. I will certainly respect your opinion. ”