The reason why the aerospace department and Ascendas Group used the retired IL-18 passenger aircraft to modify such an alternative transport aircraft was mainly driven by practical needs.
If enterprises are placed within the aerospace sector system, it is estimated that they may not have such demand in another one or twenty years. This is mainly because these aerospace enterprises had complete supporting plans when they were first built, including related supporting factories, assembly plants and testing facilities. There are dedicated railway lines connecting the site and launch site.
After the large components of the launch vehicle leave the factory, they can be directly hoisted on a dedicated freight train to arrive in a straight line from point to point, which is convenient, fast and efficient.
The problem is that this system will not work in Ascendas Group.
Because Ascendas Group grew up completely on its own, in order to survive in the early stage, it was impossible to consider a complete supporting plan as planned in the planning era. As long as it can be produced and raw materials and products can be shipped smoothly, it will be fine.
" What kind of dedicated railway line? The struggling Ascendas Group really doesn't have the ability to build it. At the same time, it is impossible for the railway department to open a dedicated line just because an ordinary enterprise invests in it.
Of course, ordinary railway and road transportation of Ascendas Group¡¯s products at that time was enough, and there was no need to do anything special.
Not enough. Since the aerospace department issued the production task four years ago, everything has changed, because Ascendas Group is responsible for the processing and production of the secondary fuel tank of a certain launch vehicle, the first-stage fuel tank of a certain missile, and part of the missile body. Task.
Originally, it was not Ascendas Group¡¯s turn to do these things. There were many companies under the aerospace department, and some were factories that could undertake such tasks.
"However, due to the failure of a space launch mission and two missile test launch failures, it was discovered after a survey of the aerospace system that the processing accuracy of the supporting factory did not meet the design requirements of a certain launch vehicle and new missiles.
On the one hand, this is due to the aging of the equipment in the supporting factory, and on the other hand, it is also due to the excessively high design indicators of the two models.
It is not impossible to introduce equipment and conduct comprehensive transformation, but it will take time. This will have a huge impact on space launches and national defense security. Therefore, the head of the old headquarters, who had not yet retired at that time, accepted the assignment from the headquarters and personally conducted a thorough investigation of various enterprises in the aerospace sector. Let's see if we can concentrate on the advantages of each factory to solve this problem, and we are even prepared to build a new factory at any cost.
Ascendas Group spans the two major businesses of aviation and aerospace, so it is naturally the target of the head of the old headquarters to find out. It doesn't matter what the result is. Although it is not as shocking as the first time he came to inspect Ascendas Group, it still refreshed his understanding of Ascendas. Group awareness.
Especially at the Ascendas Aviation Technology R&D Center in Sin Chew, the internal composite material achievements can simply blind people. That¡¯s it. The key is the supporting production equipment and processing technology. Ascendas Group has also done a lot, and then Coupled with its excellent production and processing capabilities, what kind of factory should be built? Just produce it directly at Ascendas Group.
Hearing this result, Zhuang Jianye, who accompanied the head of the old headquarters during the inspection, almost stopped crying.
He is doing so much not because he wants to work in aerospace, but because he is planning to take advantage of the aerospace department to eliminate old equipment and engage in industrial upgrading. He will be a supplier of materials and equipment as before, and make a fortune in a low-key and luxurious way.
It is precisely because of this that when the old head of the headquarters came over, Zhuang Jianye tried his best to take out everything from the bottom of the box. He didn't expect that the old head of the head of the headquarters would throw everything into his hands.
Zhuang Jianye, a real man, almost fainted in the toilet without crying.
Of course, no matter how much you cry in the toilet, you still have to listen to the words of the old head of the headquarters. What¡¯s more, this is the will of the country and cannot be measured by money. Therefore, shortly after the old head of the headquarters left, Ascendas Group began Large parts for the aerospace department are trial-produced at the Xiping Factory.
It must be said that the head of the old headquarters still has a very good vision. In less than half a year, the secondary fuel tank of a certain launch vehicle and the first-stage fuel tank of a certain missile produced by Ascendas Group, as well as part of the missile body, all met the design standards and passed the test. Approval by a group of experts from the aerospace sector allows for mass production.
¡°Then¡the problem arises.
The diameter of such parts is generally two to three meters, or even larger; the smallest length is 8 or 9 meters. Due to design requirements, a certain missile body has a diameter of 3.5 meters and a length of 17.4 meters, and requires One piece.
Such large structural parts have exceeded the length of ordinary freight train carriages and require special carriages to be shipped. That's it. The key is that these big things are all precision parts. They are as delicate as babies. However, during transportation and transfer, neither knocking nor touching is allowed.
In this regard, the weakness of Ascendas Group¡¯s incomplete early planning has become apparent. Without dedicated railways and highways,?Forget it, the terrain in the southwest is very complex, with so many tunnels and curves that it's hard to believe. If you want to ensure that large precision structural parts don't go wrong under such road conditions, it will be a world record.
what to do?
The answer given by Ascendas Group is to use aircraft for air transportation, and it quickly came up with a highly feasible plan.
Land transportation has limitations, and there is no way to use shipping without being close to the sea. Aviation seemed to be the only option, so the aerospace department discussed it and finally the head of the old headquarters made the decision to launch the project to transport 16.
Ascendas Group, which was responsible for the modification task, even suspended the ongoing advanced light transport aircraft project for this project. It concentrated all its efforts and came up with the most bottom-of-the-line technology in recent years. It took nearly two years to retire two Air Force aircraft. The Ilyushin Design Bureau of the Soviet Union did not even recognize the original mother of the Il-18.
No way, in order to accommodate large structural parts such as the missile body, the fuselage was subversively expanded by Ascendas Group, forming a huge cargo space with a length of 20.56 meters, a height of 5.9 meters, a width of 5.9 meters, and a volume of 713 cubic meters. The warehouse can easily accommodate large structural parts such as launch vehicles or missile bodies produced by Ascendas Group.
Once the two "air vehicles" were put into use, they were immediately praised by the aerospace department, and the demand was extremely high. Taking into account the Ascendas Group's own transportation of complete helicopters to the Xiangzhou assembly plant, as well as the transportation tasks of other precision parts, the two "air vehicles" "Specialized cars" are actually in short supply.
This time, we have a chance to transport the damaged jt9d engine of Boeing 767 only by sharing the plane with the aerospace department, otherwise it is not certain when it will be delivered.
Of course, Zheng Yongning would not tell Wang Huan these things. After all, it involves aerospace manufacturing, especially the production of a new missile body, which is not accessible to everyone. Even Zheng Yongning, with the help of Zhuang Jianye, many details I don't know, and outsiders can't tell in detail.
¡°It¡¯s just that in order to facilitate the rapid transportation of precision components within the group, we spent huge sums of money to modify two Il-18s.
But even so, Wang Huan was still surprised. He felt that Ascendas Group's gesture was not ordinary. He was about to ask a few questions about the details of the "air car" when he heard the roar of an engine from the sky. Wang Huan subconsciously raised his head. I was shocked after just one glance. I couldn't help but think that the plane looked too weird. It was so weird that I couldn't describe it in words. I could only point to the cute and cute plane above and asked, "That's"
Zheng Yongning smiled and replied: "Ah, that is our 'air car' special transport aircraft."
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