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Chapter 474 The first flight of the aerospace plane
Not only Lin Feng, everyone has basically seen this aerospace plane waiting for its first flight.

"That's our aerospace plane!"

"It's so beautiful, much higher than the appearance of ordinary civil aviation airliners!"

"I'm really looking forward to its blockbuster!"

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The Gulfstream business jet landed on the runway of the airport, and the plane came to a complete stop. Everyone got off the plane one by one. Liang Guangwei and other executives from the Second Aircraft Manufacturing Company were already at the airport to welcome them.

"Boss, hello!"

Everyone went forward to shake hands with Lin Feng one by one, and Liang Guangwei even reported, "Boss, everything is ready, just waiting for the first flight!"

Lin Feng looked at the time and waved, "Come on, let's go directly to the tower."

The airport tower is the command center for the first flight of the aerospace plane. It is condescending, has a wide field of vision, and can clearly see the situation of the first flight. There are also various instruments, a large number of display screens, and various data of the first flight. .

The people here have already taken their positions. When Lin Feng walked in, everyone stood up one after another, and some people had even more surprised expressions on their faces.

Mr. Lin came here in person!

"Hello, Mr. Lin!"

"Mr. Lin, good morning!"

Faced with everyone's warm greetings to him, Lin Feng smiled, nodded, or waved his hand, and motioned for everyone to sit down.

It was already past nine o'clock in the morning. Through the glass, we could see that various media reporters had already entered the arena. There were hundreds of people, including more than a hundred well-known domestic and foreign media. Such a lineup was also very rare.

Leihuo Science and Technology Industrial Group has divided a special area for the reporters. In this area, the reporters are busy. Some are setting up shooting equipment, some are starting to point the camera at the aerospace plane, and some have already started live broadcasting.

Lin Feng waved his hand and said, "It's almost time, all the people who came to visit our first flight outside can be allowed in."

Outside the airport, there are huge crowds of people!
More than 1 people came to watch the first flight of the aerospace plane. Following Lin Feng's order, several entrances were opened at the same time, and a large number of people began to pour into the airport. The staff of Leihuo Technology Industry Group were busy maintaining order. Do a good job in various service tasks.

The originally empty and huge apron suddenly became lively, with people everywhere, some people began to grab the best seats, and some people were attracted by the planes on the apron.

"That's the aerospace plane!"

"I love this shape, it's so beautiful!"

"It doesn't look small, no wonder it can hold more than 100 people!"

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The whole scene is very lively!
There were people everywhere on the huge tarmac, and some foreigners not only took a look at the aerospace plane from a distance, but also took a look at the huge factory area separated by a wall.

Especially the huge final assembly plant.

They know that the aerospace plane is assembled and rolled off the assembly line in this huge factory building. In addition to the aerospace plane, there are also "Global Hawk" drones.

Before I knew it, it was approaching ten o'clock in the morning.

The first flight of the aerospace plane is about to begin.

I don't know who shouted, "Look, the plane seems to have started!"

The sound of the plane starting came to everyone's ears, and the originally bustling scene gradually quieted down, and more than 1 pairs of eyes gathered on the aerospace plane.

In everyone's eyes, the plane started to move, heading towards the runway in the distance, and stopped on the runway for three to five minutes. After receiving the take-off order, it began to accelerate.

The take-off and method are basically similar to those of ordinary civil aviation airliners. They also accelerate on the runway and then take off, but it can be seen that its take-off distance is much shorter.

"Wow, it's flying!"

"It's amazing how short the takeoff distance is!"

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The excellent acceleration performance of this aerospace plane is reflected, and it quickly reaches the take-off speed, leaves the ground steadily and flies towards the sky, flying higher and farther.

At the beginning, it did not completely fly out of everyone's sight. After flying for a certain distance, it made a large-radius turn, and then flew several times over the airport at an altitude of about 2000 to [-] meters, and then went away.

It eventually disappeared from everyone's sight.

In the tower, everyone stared at various instruments and meters, staring at the data on the display screen. The plane was already at an altitude of [-] meters and was accelerating.

The acceleration has been increasing, starting from 0.1 G and gradually increasing.

Why didn't it increase rapidly.

The main reason is to consider that this is the first flight, and it did not accelerate violently all at once, but came little by little.

The acceleration increases slowly until it stabilizes at about two Gs, and starts to increase the speed with such an acceleration.

两个G的加速度已经比较恐怖，理论上20秒之内可以让速度从零突破音速，5分钟左右可以让速度增加到近20马赫，速度达到30马赫只要8、9分钟。

Ordinary people can still bear the acceleration within two Gs. As the acceleration increases, people will gradually feel uncomfortable. The tolerance limit of ordinary people is generally about 3 or 4 Gs, and fighter pilots can withstand overloads of 6 or 7 Gs.

After flying for two or three minutes at an acceleration of two Gs, the speed of this aerospace plane has exceeded Mach 3, and the speed is still rising rapidly.

Lin Feng waved his hand and said, "Those who have improved their skills again will reach 3 G."

The command was quickly issued to the pilot, and the speed of the plane accelerated and climbed, and the speed quickly reached Mach 10, and then Mach 15.
Such flying speed is simply scary.

Currently, such speeds are impossible for any aircraft.

In addition to the crew, there are more than a dozen technicians on this aerospace plane, as well as some instruments and meters, recording various data, and the technicians even have to experience the ride experience.

This is a passenger plane, and the ride experience is very important. In addition to the super fast flight speed, the ride must also be smooth and comfortable.

When the acceleration reaches 3 G or above, people will obviously feel uncomfortable, and people with poor physique may even fall into a coma, but the technicians on the plane did not feel any discomfort.

This is the black technology of the system. The design of this aerospace plane adopts an advanced overload elimination design. People on the overloaded plane of three or five Gs will not feel anything.

This technology is widely used in future spaceships. Ordinary spaceships take off from zero speed and reach hundreds of thousands of kilometers per hour in a short period of time. overload.

On the plane, these technicians are also communicating.

"It has exceeded 3 G, and the flight speed has reached Mach 20+. Do you feel anything?"

"I don't feel anything!"

"I didn't feel anything either. If it wasn't for the data showing that the speed had reached Mach 22 and the acceleration had reached 3.2 G, I would have thought I was on an ordinary civil aviation airliner."

"No, I think it flies more smoothly than ordinary commercial airliners, and the noise is much less."

The vibration value, noise value, cabin air pressure, etc. of the aircraft during flight are clearly displayed on the instruments and meters, which are indeed much better than ordinary civil aviation airliners.

After the speed reaches Mach 25, the acceleration gradually decreases, and when the flight speed reaches Mach 30, the acceleration is basically zero, and the aerospace plane starts flying at a constant speed.

On the apron, people watching the first flight are now looking at two huge display screens. These two open-air display screens are specially prepared for the first flight of the aerospace plane. 10, 7 meters.

The huge display screen is a huge world map, which shows the real-time position of the aerospace plane, as well as its flight altitude and flight speed!

"God, this speed is too fast!"

"The flight speed has reached Mach 30, unbelievable!"

"It's only been ten minutes, and it has flown thousands of kilometers!"

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Everyone looked at the display screen one by one, and exclamations sounded from time to time. In addition to pointing the camera at the crowd to capture the wonderful facial expressions of some people, the reporters also pointed at the display screen to shoot the plane. The flight speed and height of the aircraft were photographed.

After the aerospace plane took off, it headed west all the way, flying at an altitude of more than [-] meters, much higher than that of ordinary civil aviation airliners. Thirty to forty thousand kilometers, which lasted about an hour and a half.

At around 11:[-], the plane returned and entered the sky above Jiangnan Province, lowered its altitude, slowed down, and began to land at the airport.

At this time, everyone saw the plane again.

"Look, it's back!"

"Oh my God, it has circled the earth in such a short time!"

"I hope it will enter mass production as soon as possible and be put into operation earlier. I really want to experience it!"

"Leihuo Science and Technology Industrial Group is awesome, this is simply black technology!"

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In everyone's eyes, the plane landed on the airport runway, and then stopped at the designated position on the apron.

First flight completed!

There was warm applause at the scene!
But it didn't end there. At two o'clock in the afternoon, Leihuo Technology Industry Group held a press conference at the Wujiang Hotel.

Wujiang Hotel is a brand-new hotel located in the most prosperous downtown area of ​​Wujiang City, and it is also the only five-star hotel in Wujiang City.

Several senior executives from Leihuo Technology and Industry Group attended the meeting. He Hua officially announced at the meeting that the first flight of the aerospace plane was a complete success, and its various performances were perfect. He also announced that the space version of the aerospace plane would enter the development stage.

As the name suggests, the aerospace plane is not limited to flying in the atmosphere, but can enter space and fly.

The model that flew for the first time today is a passenger model, mainly flying in the atmosphere. The future space model is no longer limited to this. It can carry out long-distance space flight. Although it cannot fly out of the solar system, it is still possible to fly to Mars. .

The whole scene was in an uproar.

Especially those media reporters immediately smelled that this was heavy news.

Leihuo Technology Industrial Group will start the space age of mankind!

Flying into space is the dream of many people, will it be realized by Leihuo Technology Industry Group!

The press conference was not long, less than an hour.

But the impact it brought was overwhelming. The successful first flight of this aerospace plane heralds the arrival of a brand new era, people's way of travel will be completely changed, and the distance between countries in the world will be completely shortened.

Space-type aerospace planes let people see the hope of interstellar flight.

Except for Wang Tianfang and some middle and high-level executives who stayed at the Phoenix Factory to attend the dinner and visit the aerospace plane, hundreds of other people returned to the Phoenix Factory by bus.

Every bus is very lively.

"Today's first flight was so exciting, the plane actually flew at a speed of Mach 30!"

"Leihuo Science and Technology Industrial Group is so awesome, it actually wants to develop a space model!"

"I admire them so much now, and after this plane is in operation, no matter how expensive the air ticket is, I will take a ride."

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The first flight of the aerospace plane was successfully completed, and that night, Lin Feng and others returned to Shenhai City.

There were a lot of reports on the first flight of the aerospace plane on the TV that day, and it became even more exaggerated the next day. TV stations, newspapers and other media around the world were reporting on this matter.

The enthusiasm for the first flight of the aerospace plane is the same.

The next day.

After Lin Feng went to work, he sat on his boss's chair and picked up the newspaper that Tang Qiqi had sent to read, and couldn't help laughing happily.

Every newspaper, without exception, all reported the first flight of the aerospace plane on the front page.

Flipping through these newspapers, Lin Feng opened the drawer, took out the general design drawings of the aerospace plane, spread it out on the big table, and read it again with great interest.

There is a certain difference between the space type and the passenger type, but the difference is not very big. It mainly adds some structures and functions to facilitate the long-distance space flight of the aircraft.

The difference in appearance is not big, and the difference in power system, basic structure, avionics system, etc. is not too big.

Lin Feng was sure that as long as he gave Zhao Ming these few design drawings, plus a little explanation and guidance from himself, they would be able to design the space-type aerospace plane in a few months.

The space type also has two models, one model is for personnel transportation, and the other model is for cargo transportation.

After thinking about it for a while, Lin Feng decided to develop a space-type cargo transport aircraft first. This aircraft is more important. For example, building a space station in space, or launching a few satellites in space, is simply a piece of cake, and there is basically no difficulty .

It can even build a base on the moon or Mars, and it can transport the things needed to build a moon base or a Mars base.

The space-type personnel transport aircraft can be later. Now there is neither a space station nor a base on the moon or Mars, so there is no need for space transportation of personnel.

For several days in a row, the first flight of the aerospace plane continued to heat up, occupying the front page headlines of newspapers and the prime news time of TV stations.

In addition to doing a very good publicity for the aerospace plane for free, Leihuo Technology Industry Group also received a large number of orders.

Just as Lin Feng expected, after the successful maiden flight of the aerospace plane, its orders ushered in an explosive growth.

He Hua basically reports to Lin Feng on the growth of aerospace aircraft orders every day. It has increased from 339 before the first flight to 512 now, and the number is still increasing.

To receive customers who came to order aerospace aircraft, and to sign orders with them, Lin Feng basically did not show up. He Hua and his senior executives are enough. Lin Feng mainly stays in Leihuo Aircraft Design Center these days.

It is very convenient to have this Gulfstream business jet. I fly there every morning, and I can fly back in the evening. I stay in the aircraft design center for five or six hours a day.

Not only brought some design drawings of the space-type aerospace plane, but also explained the design of the space-type aerospace plane.

With the basis and experience in the design of passenger and cargo aircraft, Lin Feng only needs to point out the design drawings and everyone will understand, which makes Lin Feng a lot easier.

After a few days of such explanations and guidance, the specific design work was fully launched. Under the leadership of Zhao Mingzhi and others, two to three thousand designers in the design center started the design work of the aerospace aircraft.

As a result, in addition to the second prototype of the passenger space plane, the design of the space plane also began. As for the first round plane, a series of test flight verifications began to be carried out according to the plan.

Beijing.

Long Wenchu ​​was reading reports about aerospace planes again. He has been paying attention to this plane these days and found that he has fallen in love with this plane.

As a satellite design expert, it seems a little abnormal for him to pay attention to the aerospace plane, but only he knows that he mainly wants to see if this plane can directly put satellites into satellite orbits.

After a while, the door of the office was pushed open, and it was his old friend, Song Langyun, a well-known aerospace expert in China, who came in.

"Old man, I'm watching the report on aerospace planes again, yo, this time I'm watching the report on space planes."

Long Wenchu ​​put down the newspaper in his hand, and said hopefully, "Old Song, tell me if Leihuo Technology and Industry Group can really develop a space model."

Song Langyun said, "Although the technology is extremely difficult, I still trust them, and it is estimated that most of them can make it."

Long Wenchu ​​obviously became eager, "If the space-type is successfully developed, does it mean that the space age is coming, and it also means that the way we launch satellites will be completely changed?"

Song Langyun nodded and said, "This is very possible."

After the two sat together and chatted for a while, Song Langyun said, "Old man, since you are so interested in this space type, why don't you take the time to go to Leihuo Technology Industrial Group, if you can chat with them, then all problems will be solved gone."

"That's right, that's a good suggestion." Long Wenchu ​​said, "Then I'll take the time to visit. Director Xie Kangquan and Mr. Lin have a good relationship, so I'll go there with him."

Song Langyun said, "Count me in, I'll go with you too."

A few days later.

A group of seven or eight including Xie Kangquan, Long Wenchu, and Song Langyun arrived at Leihuo Technology Industrial Group and met Lin Feng.

In the conference room, the two parties sat together, chatting enthusiastically about the space plane, and soon they talked about the space plane.

(End of this chapter)