Chapter 637: Running to the Speed of Sound
February 1, Hongqiao Airport.
A group of elite people with different skin tones stood on the tarmac, applauding the C832 as it was being pulled out of its stand.
The plane flew from Rongcheng to Modu yesterday, and it is worth mentioning that the pilots who flew them were United Airlines pilots, and they will fly directly to the other side of the ocean from here.
This passenger aircraft, with registration number N755C1, is the first C832 exported to the outside world, and it is also the first large mainline domestic passenger aircraft purchased by Aramco Air from China, which is of great significance.
Although it can still be seen from some details that the design team is not very experienced, there are no fatal flaws and shoddy mistakes.
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Nine C832s and 14 C822s were handed over to six different airlines, three from Aramco, two from Southeast Asia and one from Europe.
Shepard: "That's right, the information age requires speed, three times the speed of sound, and people don't have to sleep on intercontinental routes anymore." ”
If the mechanical aspect can barely pick the bones in the egg and find a way to get some dispensable defects, these experts in electronic control have no comment at all.
The two talked about the cooperation between the two countries to develop the trans-Pacific supersonic route, which the country has basically acquiesced to, and Boeing and NACA persuaded the military to finally let Congress quietly pass the "Supersonic Flight Act" 10 days ago, allowing the opening of supersonic routes in some areas.
In order to prevent further accidents, Aramco's two airlines, Air China and China Eastern Airlines respectively ordered 15 C1000s or B3707s from each other, paid part of the deposit, and agreed that the first test flight must be carried out before 2019 and the first aircraft must be delivered in 2020, otherwise they will have to pay sky-high liquidated damages.
Coupled with Androv and the An-1250 who looked like the An-225, they deeply suspected that Lucia had lost her mind and sold a large number of aviation technology and experts, which barely made sense.
Even according to United's pilots who came to train, if they really encountered very troublesome bad weather, they must trust the automatic landing system, because the reliability of the system, which is even higher than that of the vast majority of pilots.
This really aroused a lot of interest in the two aviation giants, and they secretly planned to study the ternary electronic system.
Shepard's compliments were somewhat useful to both Zeng Xiangdong and Anderov, but the reason why Boeing sent people here was naturally not simply to congratulate the plane on delivery.
Then in the process of debugging, the transformation is carried out to verify the yield rate while producing some ternary chips in small batches, which is much better than the domestic 28nm process, not only with less heat and power consumption, but also with a certain improvement in performance.
Shepard and Androv both felt very secure and shook hands warmly, and Zeng Xiangdong next to him was even more happy to see it.
However, to the surprise of these technical experts, both the C832 and the C822 are quite mature in their body design.
"Zeng, congratulations, it's remarkable that you've exported to Aramco a large passenger plane capable of flying ocean routes.
"The C832 is just the first step in our collaboration, and in the future, the real stars of the aviation industry are the C1000 and B3707.
Among the lively crowds were Zeng Xiangdong, president of commercial aviation, Shepard, vice president of Boeing, and Androve, president of Star Airlines.
2605: F700: 43: 6000:: 6c7
In July, with the defeat of Artemis II, the merchant airline was able to obtain export qualifications for 300 C822s and 100 C832s, and under pressure at the time, many Aramco airlines also ordered some of them, adding up to seventy or eighty aircraft.
In July, there were two chip production lines along with the finalization of the aircraft export contract, and the Commission of Science and Technology, which knew that the night was long and dreamy, continued to urge, and bought two 28nm and 22nm chip production lines from TSMC at an equal price while the iron was hot, and it took three months to disassemble, transport and install.
In addition to the fact that the fly-by-wire flight controller itself requires a lot of flight experience to test the reliability and it is difficult to see more problems in the test, more importantly, the fly-by-wire flight controller of C832 and C822 is based on ternary electronic technology, which is not easy to evaluate based on traditional experience.
The first users of these chips were passenger aircraft, which were more than enough to meet the needs of fly-by-wire flight control, and perfectly passed various harsh tests set by the FAA.
Of course, they still don't believe that a fledgling airline can have such design skills, even with the participation of XAP and a military-industrial complex, but the design experience of large passenger aircraft is not directly related to the technical level.
The bill was passed in such a low-key manner that the mainstream media only vaguely mentioned it, and the human rights and environmental groups with noses worse than dogs remained silent, and there was no opposition to it.
In addition to some structural designs that are somewhat unfavorable because of different design ideas, other aspects such as workmanship and materials are completely unpickable, and it is easy to see that it is a mass production process, rather than a small number of senior technicians who strive for perfection and hard piles.
And Anderov, who was a little depressed because of several changes in the base, also swept away the haze and was ready to go all out to devote himself to the development of the C1000 passenger aircraft.
Not only is the supersonic route profitable, but also an important boost is that the Air Force hopes to use it to study some aerospace aircraft technology, requiring that it must ensure the dead target of tripleonic cruise, which means that it is a certainty.
Anderov first thanked him for the compliment, and then said:
Mr. Shepard, I think it's time for the public to know what the speed of travel is in the 21st century, when 40 years ago people had to cross the Pacific Ocean in more than 10 hours, and it would be disappointing if it remained the same. ”
And your plane is so good that it doesn't look like the work of a cutting-edge airline at all. ”
Boeing, who was completely reassured, finally did not have to worry about the hasty ending of the 2707 repeatedly, and began to develop a new generation of B3707 supersonic airliners.
Shepard said his true feelings, although he agreed and was forced to purchase some passenger planes, but Aramco will never give up finding fault in other aspects, and when United Airlines sent a crew to familiarize themselves with the plane, it asked Boeing, Loma and other established companies to send technical experts to find a way to pick on the plane on the grounds of safety inspection.
Although the C1000 is designed by Xingchen Aviation, they are not ready to produce it themselves, they position themselves more like design bureaus and key subsystem manufacturers, and the assembly of passenger aircraft is entrusted to commercial aviation.
The Yizhou large aircraft production base has been determined to be completed in June, and officially put into operation in July to start the production of passenger aircraft, C822, C832, C1000 three types of orders have been destined to their unlimited prospects, will become one of the best aviation consortium.
(End of chapter)