Great warships

Chapter 1203 Simple First Flight
Now, we have to show off our technology to the big dogs. In the past, the big dogs had to compare and choose to see whether the Eastern technology was stronger or the American technology was more advanced. After all, the big dogs have high standards and they would not look down on things with too low technology and think they were cheap.

What now?
You don’t need to look at it now, just choose the Eastern technology, because the Eastern technology is the strongest!

"The radar antenna is attached to the surface of the aircraft? Isn't this too advanced?" The officers following Salman were immediately shocked.

"Yes, this is the most advanced technology in the world. If it were an ordinary customer, we would not be willing to sell it to them. Only you are our best friend, so we will sell the most advanced technology to you."

In recent years, China and the Americans have drifted further and further apart. The Eastern products equipped by China have never been exposed to Americans. Even if they were exposed to them, it would be of no use because Americans could not imitate them.

Take the conformal antenna for example. Americans can produce individual T/R components, and they can certainly produce aircraft skins. However, it is difficult to combine the two together because the components are in different positions, making it difficult to integrate them into a whole as there are complex functional relationships involved.

The Americans can't do it, but the East can, because we have advanced computers, first-class programmers, an enterprising spirit, and low R&D costs.

Each one is important, but the last one is especially important.

Many times, it is not that the United States cannot develop advanced equipment, but the research and development funds are too expensive, so that it is simply impossible to carry out large-scale research. The Americans' Ford-class aircraft carrier research and development funds reached an incredible 32 billion. With this money, they could have started building two or three ships.

Low R&D costs and low manufacturing costs are the reasons why Dongfang can produce explosive equipment.

Of course, when selling to foreign customers, you have to pay according to the market price.

At this moment, looking at the plane in front of them, countless people were filled with emotion. The Eastern technology is so advanced!

"The United States also has a tilt-rotor aircraft, which made its first successful flight in 89. It has only recently been officially equipped to the military. Is the tilt-rotor aircraft developed by your Dongfang more advanced than the American technology? How reliable is it?"

The dog owner's concerns are justified. After all, the technology of this type of aircraft is very difficult, and the Americans have been working on it for so many years.

"Of course, our tiltrotor aircraft is one generation ahead of the US technology." Qin Tao said: "Everyone knows that the US tiltrotor aircraft uses a rotating engine as a whole, which is very complicated to adjust. Once encountering special situations, it is difficult to respond in time. Our tiltrotor aircraft only rotates the propeller. No matter what situation it encounters, it can respond quickly and its reliability is greatly improved. From research and development to now, it has never crashed."

Qin Tao had to make them give up their doubts, and he had the confidence: "In terms of vertical take-off and landing aircraft, we have more experience than the Americans. Our J-31A completed its first flight many years ahead of the United States, was equipped to the troops, and was exported to many countries without any major problems. Look at the Americans, they have taken a tortuous path. In recent years, they are said to have abandoned the Flying Toad and switched to our plan. They have even been trying to steal our technology."

The big dogs nodded. Yes, they were already using vertical take-off and landing fighters, which were indeed very reliable. Moreover, the Americans really wanted to get their hands on these planes, or even steal them.

Although Dongfang developed this tilt-rotor aircraft later, with its accumulated experience, Dongfang's tilt-rotor aircraft will become more mature and reliable!

"Our aircraft has just been modified, and today is its first flight." Qin Tao said: "This is the first time, so we will show it to you, and this is also because we have the confidence to do so."

Thanks to these big dogs, Qin Tao had an excuse to face his father-in-law. When customers came, they wanted to see it, so I showed it to them. It was for the purpose of making money. Don't criticize me, you have to praise me!
"Main flight?" Salman said with emotion: "We are so lucky to have caught up with the first flight. I have two flight watches here, which I will give to the hero of the first flight."

After saying this, Salman waved his hand and his adjutant took out two small boxes.

"Where is Li Can?" Qin Tao asked.

"On the plane, making preparations before takeoff." Xu Zhengyang replied.

"Tell her to come down and bring gifts to heaven!"

Li Can and his assistant got off the plane and looked at the large group of guests without any stage fright.

"Reporting to President Qin, we have completed the flight preparations and are ready to take off at any time. Please give us your instructions!"

"This foreign friend has sent you a small gift. I hope you can take this gift to heaven."

"Yes." Li Can didn't think there was anything wrong. He guessed that President Qin was doing the other party a favor. However, when he took the box and opened it, a golden light suddenly came out from it, making Li Can's eyes dazed.

Gold watch?

Watches are used to tell time. Although we have entered the era where everyone has a mobile phone, in many cases, it is more convenient to look at the watch than to hold the mobile phone. This is especially true for pilots, who must wear watches.

There are many devices in the aircraft, such as GPS, cockpit clock, etc., which can indicate the time. However, what if these devices fail at the same time? The pilot needs a timing tool that is completely independent of these devices, that is, a professional pilot watch.

Pilot watches have many special requirements, and must be able to withstand strong vibrations, huge positive and negative accelerations, and drastic changes in pressure and temperature. Therefore, a reliable movement is a must.

At the same time, in order for pilots to be able to see the instrument display clearly at a glance, they must have a large dial and thick luminous hands. Therefore, flight watches are generally large. At the same time, because there are many instruments in the cockpit, in order to avoid magnetization, flight watches also require special anti-magnetic designs. All these make the price of flight watches expensive, so much so that some celebrities like to wear flight watches to show their financial strength.

However, the watch in front of you is different. It is made of gold, and every number on the dial is carved out of diamonds. Such a watch is absolutely priced sky-high!

Li Can could tell at a glance that the watch was very expensive and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"What? You don't even know how to say thank you?" Qin Tao looked at Li Can and the other man with a smile.

"Boss Qin, this watch..."

"Wear it, this is a gift from a guest. Wearing it will bring you good luck. I am waiting for your first successful flight!"

This mission was considered a private job. When Li Can arrived here, she slowly realized that it was President Qin who called them here. However, she had no complaints about being able to fly such an advanced aircraft, and now, she had received such a precious gift.

"Yes, then we'll take it first." Li Can knew that there was no need to worry too much about it now. He could just hand it over after the first flight was completed.

After saying that, the two of them asked Chief Engineer Ouyang for instructions and then returned to the cockpit.

"This plane is really great. I want to get on it and experience it for myself." Salman murmured aside.

"Not this time, let's wait until later." Qin Tao said, "We have plenty of opportunities."

Once you purchase your own items, you can sit however you want. Just be careful not to let anything go wrong here, or you'll be in big trouble.

Salman looked at Qin Tao: "Boss Qin, aren't you very confident about this plane?"

Xu Zhengyang was a little worried. He knew Qin Tao's character. Maybe Qin Tao would go up the next moment. Yes, I have confidence. Let's go up together! At that time, Xu Zhengyang couldn't persuade him.

Fortunately, Qin Tao did not do so. He smiled and said, "Yes, I am confident, but professional matters should be left to professionals."

"Attention, get ready to start the engine, everyone stand back!"

When the helicopter takes off, the rotor will stir up a huge airflow, and sand and rocks will fly below. The tilt-rotor aircraft has greater power. Although the playground has been cleaned, there is still a certain degree of danger. If the plane does not fly up but falls down, it will be even more dangerous, so everyone must retreat to a safe place.

"Let's go," Qin Tao said to Salman, "Let's go to the small building at the back and look out through the glass of the top-floor conference room. It will be clearer."

"it is good."

The conference room on the top floor is high up and you can see everything on the playground clearly.

The propeller of the strangely shaped plane began to rotate slowly. The disk was originally vertical in front of the engine, but now it slowly turned to the top and then started the engine.

A few wisps of green smoke came out of the left engine, but strangely, the propeller on the right also started to turn.

"The most terrifying accident for this type of aircraft is that one engine stalls, so there is a transmission shaft in the middle to connect the two engines in parallel. In this way, if one of them stalls, the other can also drive the propellers on both sides to rotate, just like a helicopter." Qin Tao introduced to Salman.

Salman nodded repeatedly after hearing this. This kind of aircraft made in the East is mature and reliable, and all kinds of accidents can be taken into consideration.

The other engine also started, and the propellers on both sides rotated faster. In the sight of everyone, it slowly pulled up, and the entire take-off process was just like a helicopter.

The fuselage rose slowly, one meter, two meters... the fuselage was level with everyone's height, and then, in front of everyone's eyes, the propeller disk began to slowly rotate forward.

This conversion is the most dangerous. The propeller not only has to provide lift, but also forward power. After the plane flies forward, there will be updrafts on the wings. Various complex airflows combined together may cause accidents at any time.

At this time, as the propeller disk slowly turned, the plane began to fly forward and slowly disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Let's go to the rooftop!" said Salman.

The windows on the top floor are not very nice. If I could go to the rooftop, I would have a wider view.

"Sorry, there are no stairs on our roof. You have to climb the handrails on the wall." Qin Tao said.

Old buildings do not have stairs leading to the roof. The stairs go to the top floor. Some U-shaped frames made of steel bars are inserted into the walls of the passage on the top floor. When the roof needs to be repaired, people just step on them to go up. In order to prevent accidents with naughty children, these steel bars are only in the upper half of the wall, and people have to step on a stool or table to go up.

Salman couldn't go up there, and it would be dangerous even if he did, after all, there was no guardrail on the roof.

"Okay." Salman looked at his body shape and knew that there was no way he could go up.

"Let's wait a moment, the plane will be back soon."

What is being tested now is flight, especially take-off and landing, so the tilt-rotor aircraft will switch to level flight after taking off, fly a circle nearby and then fly back.

Sure enough, before he could finish his words, the plane appeared in view again. Salman and others continued to stare at the plane. When it was about to reach the sky above the playground, its speed began to slowly decrease, and the propeller disk began to rotate upward. It was different from the previous process, but more dangerous.

Compared to takeoff, the flight transition during landing is more complicated because the horizontal speed must be reduced to zero during landing.

The area of ​​the playground is not large, so if you want to hover over the playground just right, you need to plan in advance and prepare to slow down in advance. Now, looking at the plane hovering steadily over the playground, Salman raised his thumb.

"Not bad, not bad, the pilot's skills are very good!"

The conversion process was completed, the aircraft steadily descended in altitude while hovering, and finally the wheels touched the ground, and the maiden flight was successfully completed!
When the propeller stopped turning, Li Can let out a long sigh of relief. A brand new aircraft model finally completed its maiden flight!
She raised her arm and glanced at her gold watch. It only took five minutes from takeoff to landing, but it was a new beginning.

Qin Tao and others walked down the small building and headed towards the playground.

"Chief Designer Ouyang, where are the flowers?" Qin Tao asked as they walked.

Chief Engineer Ouyang patted his head and said, "Oh no, I forgot!"

According to an old Eastern tradition, returning heroes should be given flowers, but at today's important maiden flight ceremony, there were no flowers!

Qin Tao stopped and looked back. Fortunately, there was a flower bed in front of the small building with many flowers blooming. In this case, he was welcome.

"Flowers are given to beauties, flowers are given to heroes." Qin Tao said as he picked flowers, and soon he had a big bunch.

Others also reacted and started picking flowers. Soon, there were no flowers left in the flower bed, only green leaves.

When Li Can walked down, he saw Qin Tao holding a bouquet of flowers and Chief Engineer Ouyang holding another, and sweet smiles appeared on their faces.

"Congratulations, brave test pilots, you have completed the maiden flight. Your feat will surely be written into the history of our new early warning aircraft." Qin Tao said as he handed the flowers to Li Can.

"Mr. Qin, actually we didn't do anything. Everything was handled by the flight control system itself." Li Can said in a low voice as he took the flowers.

"Then you are heroes too." Qin Tao said seriously, "You launched the advanced early warning aircraft with your own hands. Next, there will be a celebration ceremony."

"Mr. Qin, we want to go up and take a look." Salman made a request.

After they arrived, they participated in the maiden flight ceremony, but just watched from the outside and did not have the chance to go up to see it.

"Of course, no problem. I'll take you up there to have a look. The technology inside is even more advanced..."

capital.

Wu Shengli was still looking at a pile of documents when his men knocked on the door.

"Leader Wu, I just received a message from Institute 38."

"Yes, I know. Their plane is going to take its first flight. We have completed the formalities and the test pilot will be sent over as soon as possible."

"They have completed their first flight today."

what?
Wu Shengli opened his eyes wide in surprise: "What did you say? It's already taken off for the first time? Who flew it?"

Wu Shengli certainly knew that he had returned, but Qin Tao was still in the 38th Institute. Could it be that Qin Tao had flown the plane? He was too lawless, wasn't he afraid of being punished for messing around like this?
"Captain Li Can made the first flight." The subordinate said, "The delegation of the dog owner also participated in the first flight ceremony."

"Okay, this kid wants to use the rich dog owner as an excuse." Wu Shengli immediately figured it out: Qin Tao messed up the first flight and was afraid of being scolded, so he pulled the rich dog owner over as a shield.

"Leader Wu, will you still attend the first flight ceremony?"

"Why go? It's already flown for the first time, why would I go?" Wu Shengli said, "Coordinate their next phase of flight test at the base and complete the test flight of this early warning aircraft as soon as possible. This aircraft is of great importance... The Air Force must also provide some funding."

Some of his subordinates were confused. The Air Force didn't need a tilt-rotor early warning aircraft or even a tilt-rotor aircraft. After all, the Air Force had plenty of airports. These aircraft were used by their navy. Why should the Air Force pay for them?

"Our AWACS aircraft uses a lot of advanced technologies, many of which are to be transplanted to the Air Force's AWACS aircraft. Of course, they have to pay for some of the funds, but they don't need to pay for the extra funds. They just need to pay for the fuel used in the test flight phase."

At present, the main early warning aircraft of the Air Force is still the KJ-2000. This type of early warning aircraft was modified from the fuselage shell of the A-50 early warning aircraft that Qin Tao found at Tashkent Airport. There are not many of them, and it just solves the problem of whether there is one or not.

Now that the Y-20 has been built, there will naturally be a modified version of the early warning aircraft, and it will be more advanced. For example, the conformal antenna technology currently being experimented with can be used on the Y-20.

The American E-7 early warning aircraft is nothing more than a big plate turned into a T-shaped back. What about us? We will completely eliminate the back antenna and cover it all on the fuselage.

These technologies were developed with the help of the Navy, and the Air Force also has to contribute.

"Oh, I know."

After his men left, Wu Shengli looked out the window. This type of carrier-based early warning aircraft has now been developed to perfection. The navy probably has all the equipment it needs, right?

What is lacking is quantity, which requires time to accumulate, and this period of peaceful development is not easy to come by. Qin Tao also contributed to this.

At this time, Qin Tao was eating and chatting with everyone in the cafeteria.

"Each amphibious assault ship can be equipped with two of these early warning aircraft."

"No, each ship must be equipped with at least four, with one spare, and some left on land. Let's buy twenty first." Salman was very satisfied with the Eastern weapons. He placed an order directly without asking the price.

"This will reduce the number of other aircraft that need to be carried. Two is really enough, and the rest can be solved by drones."

"Drone?" Salman and his team came this time, on the one hand for 076, and on the other hand for drones.

"Yes, we have just successfully developed an unmanned early warning aircraft. I will take you to see it after dinner."

(End of this chapter)