Chapter 144: Circumnavigating the World
The people in the small room were dumbfounded, believing that what they heard here was the future direction of the entire Xinyuan Astronautics, but they were even more speechless because of this.
At least from the current point of view, Lin Ju, a wonderful capitalist who is not thinking about making a lot of money, and these overly smart engineers have long since crossed the earth, although they are still standing in front of them, but their thoughts have already reached the sea of stars.
They still don't know what the purpose of these crazy guys is, maybe it's really just for the stars and the sea, but it's also because of this that it seems even more shocking.
The superior made a small joke and broke the silence:
"Director Kobayashi is the contemporary Wanhu, Wanhu is an ancient, but the yearning for the sky makes him willing to risk his life to sit on the chair and fly into the sky, but science and technology have made the chair safer.
And you will soon go to space to see it yourself, to be honest, I also want to overlook the earth from space, and have a new understanding of the planet under my feet at an altitude of 400 kilometers, but Director Lin has the ability to turn it into reality. ”
Several people from the space agency also applauded in agreement:
"That's right, you can go to the moon for nine days, you can go down to the five oceans to catch turtles, we can only catch turtles, but someone still has to go to the moon."
Guo Shen: "We have always thought that it is a huge failure for the leaders of space companies not to know what space is like, so starting with the boss, every executive will complete a space flight in a few years. ”
The gaze of the superior swept over everyone's faces, and finally stood up and said solemnly:
"Xinyuan Aerospace Power Company, with dreams, technology, strength, and faith, if only the enterprises in the country were like this! What you said is also very reasonable, what kind of spaceflight is astronauts who haven't even seen the earth and the universe? ”
The big guy and Academician She glanced at each other, feeling that something big was about to happen, but the superiors didn't say any more.
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Western suburbs of Kiev, Antonov Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex.
Andrei Sidnikov stood in a snow-covered hangar, looking up at a broken plane.
This is the second unit of the An-225, but the construction was terminated after only the beginning, and after that, neither the boss nor the second boss of the alliance after the separation of the alliance had the ability to continue to complete him, so it was always placed here.
Of course, the biggest problem is not technology, but funding, Ermao is too embarrassed, and the follow-up construction process of An-225 may also need the support of some supporting factories of Damao, so it is difficult to negotiate.
The Antonov Design Bureau wanted to complete the No. 2 machine, but it has been experiencing great difficulties, and the An-225 No. 1 was modified to perform various transportation tasks to subsidize the design bureau, which was still too far from completing the No. 2 machine.
As the head of the production department, the production capacity of the plant of Chief Andrei is pitiful, who would have thought of the glory of this production complex during the Union period?
"Andrey, Andrey, look at this, the world's largest aircraft!"
"Are you adding vodka to the beetroot soup Vasily, the world's largest plane will return here soon."
Vasily, who had been running all the way in the ice and snow, was steaming all over his body, panting and handing over his mobile phone at the same time:
"Khitan, Khitan has made a big plane that surpasses the An-225!"
Andrei glanced at his phone suspiciously, a short video was playing on it, it was a shot of a large plane flying overhead, the background seemed to be in the mountains, he knew it was an An-225 when he looked at the airfoil, and the tail of the H-shaped was a sign of "dream"!
"Vasily, you are really dizzy, this is our An-225, look at this airfoil, don't you even recognize your own plane? It's not that An-225 hasn't been to Huaguo, these videos are everywhere. ”
"You should count the engines! She has 8 units, that's not an 225! ”
Andre lowered his head again, and this time he looked carefully, as if it was indeed not An 225.
The video is slightly blurry, but the 8 engines are still visible, and the fuselage to wing ratio of this aircraft is also different, and there is not even a livery, just a pure white and red registration number.
But he still can't believe it, because it's 2016 and everyone knows that videos can be P.
Vasily switched to the page of his mobile phone, opened the website of the Civil Aviation Authority, typed in the number "B4043", searched, and a message without a photo popped up.
Clicking in, they saw the basic parameters of the An-1250.
"The aircraft was built by Xinyuan Aerospace Power, and the chief engineer of the An-1250 is Anderov and named after him, and it has already been released by their official channels, and it is said that it was built for the transportation of large spacecraft and rocket parts."
Andre stared at his phone for a while, then searched on the oil pipe and found several videos of the An-1250 flying.
On that day, in addition to the flyers who happened to pass by and recorded the clearest pictures with their cameras, many people used various mobile phones to take photos and videos of the An-1250 low-altitude test flight, and then posted them on the Internet.
According to the registration number, the basic information of the An-1250 was also disclosed, and finally the Xinyuan official Weibo directly released the completed test flight video, announcing the birth of the An-1250 giant transport aircraft to the world.
At the same time, Lin Ju even issued an article saying that the second aircraft of the An-1250, B4143, will soon carry out the world's first non-stop round-the-world voyage around 30 degrees north latitude.
The 10 crew, including three crew members and four engineers, will take off from Xinyuan Airport after being filled with fuel and flying eastward in a straight line, crossing the Pacific Ocean, the southern part of the island, Hawaii, Aramco, the Atlantic Ocean, Italy, Central Asia, Lucia, and finally entering from the northwest of China and landing at Xinyuan Airport.
The route is not completely circular, the whole journey is expected to be 42,000 kilometers, 48 hours of flight, consume about 650 tons of aviation kerosene, and the remaining about 50 tons of fuel.
The reason why you don't fly the equatorial route is that you can't do it, the distance of high-altitude flight is longer than the circumference of the equator, and you need to refuel at the equator to take off and take off, and then you want to take off and return in Xinyuan, you need to turn on fewer engines when the mass is reduced in the second half of the flight, only three or even two, it is estimated that you can barely complete an equatorial round-the-world flight,
Of course, these prerequisites are completely free of air refueling, and there was a Lucia An-124 that completed a round-the-world flight with a total range of 50,000 kilometers and took 72 hours, but it was completed after several air refueling, and it didn't count.
The circumnavigation of the equator will be left to the challenge later, but even flying around the 30th parallel is quite exaggerated, which is supported by its own fuel, and no manned aircraft in the world can do it.
Moreover, there are many countries near the 30th parallel, and flying on the equator can only be seen by the indigenous people of the primitive tribes.
Of course, along with the huge attention from all walks of life to the An1250 and the attention of the miracle Xinyuan company.
(End of chapter)