In the future, there is an interesting saying in the geopolitical and economic circles on both sides of the Pacific: xx is too close, but heaven is too far.
The same is true for XAC's large aircraft project. COMAC is too close and the Soviet Union is too far away. The purpose of Qi Guangming's meeting is to unify his thoughts. If there are no other ideas, there is no need to start it at all. Therefore, some people proposed the idea of ????a Soviet-style large aircraft. The flag is no surprise.
The question is whether the Soviet-style large aircraft is good or not. The jet's technology is world-class. However, you can't say whether XAC will sell it or not. The Republic has no influence on this point. Even if it is sold to Whether you can afford the price is another big question. If you were not short of money, you would have gone to the other side of the Pacific and bought 141 ten years earlier. It would be better to get it right in one step.
Because of the educational background of the technical leaders, the aviation industry circle of the Republic has had a dispute between the Anglo-American line and the Soviet Union since the founding of the People's Republic of China. For example, Academician Wu Zhonghua is a representative figure of the Anglo-American technical line, and the southern manufacturers are considered one of the bases of the Anglo-American line. The big factories in the north are considered the home base of the Soviet line. The big factories in the southwest adopt a use-it-all approach. They don't care about the United States or the Soviet Union. As long as they are useful to me, they will use them all for my own use, and they will hardly consider some nonsense.
For example, the flight control telex was the first one launched by a big factory in the south. The southwest factory thought it was good and took the lead in introducing it. What about the flight control telex from a big factory in the north? Hey~, hey~, hey~.
Since Xi'an Aircraft is the only one that the Republic has to develop large aircraft, the overall style is neutral, but there is an internal dispute between the British, American and Soviet lines. Qi Guangming's so-called unified thinking, this is the focus.
Before technological research and development is successful, no one dares to guarantee that it will be done by any time. Once the research and development level is delayed for three or two years, if you don¡¯t eliminate some of the buds in advance and spread the ugly words, then some horses will be really stuck. I can't even bear the rear fart.
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????After taking off from Belfast, it climbed to an altitude of 7,300 meters in a short time due to no load.
Recently, a high-pressure air mass from the Mongolian Plateau has moved southward, bringing large areas of fine weather to the northwest of the Republic. Looking far into the distance at an altitude of nearly 8,000 meters, there is a bright light blue line below the entire skyline. The width of the color bar is much wider than when flying at 10,000 meters. Above the light blue color bar is a narrow white line. Above the white line is an extremely deep purple-blue color and then quickly transitions to In the dark background of the universe.
Wang Peng, the co-pilot, read the external data transmitted from the weather radar, handed over the flight to the cruise computer for autopilot, and then took a few sips of the white water cup from the cup holder.
The standard Belfast crew is composed of four people, including the captain, deputy captain, mechanic and navigator. However, due to Ning Lei's other thoughts, the domestic Belfast crew has always been over-staffed. Anyway, the aircraft is large and spacious. There are always three crew formations flying together, and each flight has a crew of twelve people.
There are three crews, one for flying, one for learning/monitoring, and one for resting. Fortunately, Befa performs long-haul missions, so the three crews can take turns flying.
Although this flight was a confidential mission, the crew formation was still three, but the range of activities was restricted.
The Belfast transport aircraft is the first large transport aircraft on the planet to use an autopilot as an auxiliary flight equipment. Therefore, after turning on the aircraft's automatic cruise, the aircraft crew's work intensity is very relaxed.
Wang Peng put down the water glass, turned to look at Dong Gang, who was studying behind him, and said, "How are you feeling recently? How about you take off and land next time for an ordinary mission?"
Because this time it was a secret aircraft mission, Befa was flown by an experienced crew for the entire flight. If it was a normal mission, Dong Gang would be the co-pilot to familiarize himself with the aircraft during the cruise period.
"Captain, I personally think there is no problem, but I hope the captain can monitor me from behind during takeoff and landing."
After the mountain-moving exercise, under Ning Lei¡¯s operation, half of the Republic¡¯s all-weather transport aircraft fleet was decommissioned and all were transferred to super-heavy air cargo. Since the pilots retired not long ago, they were still used to the names they were called when they were in the army.
Aircraft takeoff and landing is one of the most critical difficulties in flying. Although Beifa has auxiliary equipment for automatic landing, pilots must be trained to land manually. Only after they are thoroughly familiar with the means of landing can pilots be allowed to rely on automatic landing equipment to stop at the airport. .
"No problem, you will be the one to fly on the next mission. I thought I was going to Xifei to pull something, but I didn't expect that it would take nearly a month. Otherwise, you would have been qualified to fly."
Wang Peng made a small complaint, which caused great resonance in the cab.
When Wang Peng and others retired, Ning Lei attended the retirement.At that time, Ning Lei directly stated that it was only the military uniforms that were retired, not the people. Once the localization of Belfa was successful, Wang Peng and others would be recruited to serve as seed instructors for the Republic's strategic transport fleet.
"Captain Wang, it shouldn't make any difference whether we retire or not. You can even fly on top-secret missions. You don't necessarily have this opportunity in the army, right?"
Wei Qiyang, who was sitting in the main driving position, asked curiously.
The mission AIA sent to Xi'an Aircraft was classified as classified. Generally speaking, confidentiality is enough to prevent Xi'an Aircraft from inquiring. It would be eye-catching to send it as top secret. However, I told the truth to the pilots who were in close contact with the mission and reminded the pilots of this. importance of the flight.
"Wearing military uniforms is not convenient for traveling overseas. In the future, our main route is likely to be flying overseas."
The remaining Beifa for overweight transportation is currently mainly engaged in delivering Shangri-La pagers, basically flying point-to-point between Shencheng and other provincial capital cities of the Republic.
However, according to Dongfeng Express¡¯s plan, once the pet eggs are on the market and Yuanjia¡¯s foreign exports become normalized, Belfast will be involved in the international freight routes from the Republic to overseas.
The journey from Chang'an to Lancheng was not that far. It only took a little over an hour at Belfast's cruising speed of more than 500 kilometers. However, before the plane landed, the crew had already discovered from the air that the entire Lancheng Airport had been completely destroyed. enters a blocked state.
About a battalion of troops has surrounded the airport and put it on guard. Fortunately, there were few flights in the Republic in the 1990s, so even the temporary closure of the airport did not have a big impact.
The altitude of Belfast slowly decreased. After circling half of the airport, the plane aligned itself with the runway and began to land, even taxiing and braking. Five minutes later, Belfast finally arrived at the apron at the end of the runway.
On the tarmac, three military-green Jiefang trucks were parked side by side. The cargo bridges of the trucks were covered with military-green camouflage nets. Although it was unclear what they were pulling, it looked like they were box-shaped objects. ,
"Xiao Dong, I, Xiao Wei, are planning to go around for a go-around. Your crew and Xiao Chu's crew will go to the cargo hold to see if there is anything we need help with."
¡°Before Belfast, the Republic had never used large aircraft to transport goods. Without crew members to take command, the comrades who came to deliver goods below would definitely be confused.
In fact, the 1st Battalion of the 481st Regiment in Lancheng, which is responsible for light water transportation, was already trapped after entering the approach route to the airport from Belfast.
Due to the nuclear industry, the 481st Regiment stationed in Lancheng will receive one or two top-secret escort missions almost every three to five years. However, most of them are transported by rail to deliver goods to such a large aircraft. This has never happened before in the history of the 26th Division.
"Political Commissar, where did this guy come from? I haven't heard that the Air Force is equipped with large aircraft!"
Fan Entian, the commander of the 481st Regiment, just left the unit today to inspect the work. After accepting the security mission assigned by his superiors, he followed the 1st Battalion to the scene.
"Commander, this aircraft definitely does not belong to the Air Force. If it is not from the Air Force, it will be enough to be reported in the Air Force military report for at least half a year. It is impossible for them to be put into use and there will be no news at all in the military report."
Wei Chaoqun, political commissar of the 841st Regiment, expressed his views.
While the two were talking, Belfast fell from the sky to the ground. When the plane got closer and looked at the four golden small Chinese characters for "Heavy Transport" on the tail fin, both Fan Entian and Wei Chaoqun were sure that the plane was most likely domestic.
Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan these days are already proud of foreign writing. Only those who are from mainland China and are deeply influenced by traditional culture can use small seal script on aircraft painting.
Fan Entian and Wei Chaoqun stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes for a while, both of them tacitly wondering whether this top-secret mission was this big plane or not? Or are the three boxes with radioactive warning symbols on the truck top secret?
Before the two of them could figure out anything, Befa's tailgate slowly opened with the sound of the motor, and three or four aircraft crew members wearing Republic's civil aviation uniforms walked out.
"Who is the comrade who delivers supplies?"
"We all are. I am Fan Entian, the leader of the 841st Regiment in charge of transporting supplies. Our department has been ordered to transport a batch of Type A supplies to Lancheng Airport."
"I am Cui Honglie from the northwest of AIA. I have been ordered to transport a batch of Type A materials to Lancheng Airport."
Following Dong Gang¡¯s questioning, he got on the line with the leader of the department responsible for light water transportation outside.
Listening to the familiar language format, Dong Gang almost replied: Our xx transport aircraft brigade was ordered to transport type A materials to Shencheng Airport.
The words rolled around on his tongue, but Dong Gang swallowed them back in time.
"Hello comrades, I am Eurasian Super Heavy Transport Company 1012Dong Gang, the intern captain of Unit No. 1, was appointed by the company to come to Lancheng to pick up and transport a batch of supplies. "
AIA's Cui Honglie has interned in Yuanjia's security department and also received rotation training in Hong Kong Island. Although he doesn't know much about Yuanjia as Weng Chengji does, his horizons have been opened at least. He knows that there is a company with a very big background that even looks like the tertiary industry of AIA. nb companies are rising rapidly in the Republic of China and Hong Kong Island.
Therefore, when the person he contacted was a company, although Cui Honglie felt strange, it was no more strange.
But Fan Entian¡¯s feeling is completely different. After so many years of top-secret escort missions, the contact parties are either from a certain department or a certain office. The party that has never contacted them is in the name of the company.
These days, most of the state-owned enterprises in the Republic are called factories with numbered numbers. Those who come up to call companies are either foreign companies or leather bags. Dong Gang's words about the company almost ruined Fan Entian's outlook on things, although Fan Entian didn't know what was inside the Jiefang truck. What was being transported, but the dark green radioactive symbol on the box, which represented extreme danger, reminded Fan Entian that he still recognized it.
For a time, all kinds of messy thoughts such as society and capital, peaceful evolution, 300% profit, the final noose, etc. all popped up in Fan Entian's head.
Shaking his head, as if to get rid of all kinds of unreliable or unreliable thoughts, Fan Entian suddenly remembered that this had all been changed. It was probably that a certain department had been reorganized into a company for the purpose of operating abroad.
Now that the name of the company has come out, it can be confirmed that the type A materials he is transporting are definitely not something that can kill people instantly, Fan Entian thought about it with some relief.
"Captain Dong Gang, we haven't delivered goods to such a big aircraft yet. Should I let the soldiers unload the truck first or~"
Fan Entian glanced at Belfast¡¯s wide and tall tailgate and the tailgate transportation springboard that had been automatically erected, and asked with a questioning and curious tone.
¡°The car goes directly onto the plane, and there are heavy-duty pulleys in the cargo hold, so it can be unloaded directly into the cargo bay.¡±
In the 1990s, airport cargo transportation was carried out by forklifts and cargo transfer belts. Although Lancheng Airport also had this set of transfer equipment, neither the airport nor Fan Entian planned to do so because of the large radioactive sign on the transportation mark. Using this set of equipment, even if there is no leakage, equipment that has carried such radioactive materials must undergo a cleaning process afterwards.
The army¡¯s cars are easy to clean as long as they are cleaned. There is only one cargo transfer belt at Lancheng Airport. Once the cleaning process is carried out, the airport will be paralyzed.
Hearing Dong Gang say that there is a pulley block inside the cabin that can be used to unload cargo, Fan Entian signaled to start loading cargo.
With first gear engaged, the engine of the Jiefang truck roared gently, pushing the body over the ramp of the cargo bay and into the spacious cabin of Belfast.
Dong Gang's crew had already calculated the counterweight of the aircraft and directed the liberation truck to stop at the designated location. Several soldiers from the 841st Regiment followed the truck into the cargo hold and were looking around curiously.
"Just dump it here."
As Dong Gang arranged the location, a moment later, the sound of the pulley unit working was heard in the cabin.
"Captain Dong, which unit is in charge of your heavy transport? China Resources, China Merchants or Air China?"
China Resources is an overseas procurement company established by the Eighth Route Army during the Anti-Japanese War. The history of investment promotion is even longer and can be traced back to the Beiyang era before the Republic of China. These two companies are considered the main overseas tentacles of the official capital of the Republic of China. Needless to say, Air China, if not divided All civil aviation aircraft across the country will be dismantled and belong to Air China.
In Fan Entian¡¯s opinion, these three departments are the only ones outside the army that can afford large aircraft.
"COMAC."
Dong Gang¡¯s words were concise and to the point.
¡°COMAC?.¡±
Regarding this name, Fan Entian felt that he had never heard of it. Most of the public reports involving COMAC in the Republic were CMB Aerospace. Its official domestic appearance was the Kuaisail Business Jet Manufacturing Co., Ltd. established in Hudong not long ago.
In order to better enter the overseas market, although the technology of COMAC's first aircraft came from cmb aerospace, the naming did not continue with the cm series number. Instead, it paid tribute to history and named it Kuaifan. .
Although the Kuaisail is not well-known in the new century, it has left an extremely important mark in the history of human aircraft in the twentieth century, including the first aero-engine tail crane layout, the first triangular porthole, and the first exit The European jet airliner to the United States, the first European jet aircraft to achieve profitability, the first passenger aircraft to meet Category 3 blind landing standards, the first passenger aircraft to be designed with a tail boarding door, the first to launch a specialized cargo aircraft model of commercial jets and so on and so forth.
How far can France stand against the Empire on which the sun never sets?For hundreds of years, and even in the new century, the global police force was created by France in the past. The country's heritage is still very profound. After the Second World War, France realized that the country was about to fall into recession. It once made a desperate plan to form a sponsor with its old enemy, Britain. The Federation promotes the union of Britain and France to establish the third pole of the world. This imagination and determination, but it is a pity that Britain has withered and would rather work as a handyman for a distant cousin.
Business jets themselves are the product of technology, fashion, and luxury. To use a French (the fourth tone is required here), national brands are definitely easier to be accepted by the market than republican brands and German brands. For this reason, COMAC has adopted Snake MA acquired the Caravelle brand from the French Aerospace Group, which had been discontinued for more than ten years.
Dong Gang repeated the full name of COMAC. Fan Entian felt that he had never heard of it. It was only normal that someone who could fly top-secret missions had never heard of it. Fan Entian decided not to ask.
The two of them chatted to death about the name of COMAC. Fortunately, one of them was doing cargo for a large aircraft for the first time, and the other was a novice with little experience. They both watched with interest. Three Jiefang trucks were loaded onto the machine one after another, unloaded and fixed.
In a quiet and efficient atmosphere, three boxes marked with radioactive markers were firmly fixed in the middle of the cargo hold.
Evacuate, close the tailgate, start the turboprop engine, apply for tower clearance, taxi, taxi, take off~, and 7300+ seconds after landing at Belfast Lancaster Airport, it took to the sky again.
Squinting his eyes, he saw that the white, blue and gold Befa had disappeared into the distant skyline. Fan Entian withdrew his eyes and issued an order angrily, and all units collected their troops and equipment and evacuated.
"Political Commissar, this mission is really insightful. The size of this plane is incredible."
"Haha, captain, I actually talked about something when we were chatting just now. I saw that these people were traveling with us, and when I asked casually, I found out that they had just changed jobs this year. It turned out that they were all all-weather personnel of the Air Force 31 Transport Division. pilot."
In this day and age of the Republic, all-weather pilots, even those who fly transport aircraft, are diamonds in gold. The age of the crew members appears to be in their prime flying years. If they can transfer jobs in batches, there must be deep involvement of the military without asking.
The army of the Republic these days couldn¡¯t help but talk. The two looked at each other and smiled, directly mistaking the confused COMAC for a company like United Airlines.
Not to mention that these two people gradually lifted the alert at Lancheng Airport and returned to their base. The flight to Belfast for the second takeoff was a bit far. The distance between Lancheng and Shenyang was about 2,000 kilometers. When they were in the northwest, the sky was clear, but Belfast After Fa Fei left the Loess Plateau and entered the North China Plain, he encountered a thunderstorm. After rising from the cruising altitude of 7,300 meters to 9,600 meters and passing through a large thundercloud, Belfast entered the Liaodong Peninsula from above the Bohai Sea.
Wang Peng looked at the clearly visible coastline under the wing and reported his new position into the microphone: "Flight l2021 has crossed Yingkou waters and is expected to arrive at Taoxian Airport in twenty minutes."
The Taoxian Airport located in the south of Shencheng still maintains the flow of people. The entire airport is not cordoned off like Lancheng. Liang Yuan knows what is being transported. The radioactive sign just looks scary. .
At 5:35 in the evening, after spending most of the day traveling thousands of kilometers, Belfast finally pulled ten tons of light water and docked on the No. 3 tarmac of Taoxian International Airport.
Although there is no martial law prohibiting movement at Taoxian Airport, there are more than a hundred Yuanjia security personnel who came over. Even though Liang Yuan knew that the items being transported were basically harmless, this flight mission still had a top secret number, and the scene had to be staged. The attitude of taking things seriously is not.
Yuanjia's security department is crouching tigers, hiding dragons. It is not easy to set up a warning circle. A group of burly men wearing black stand-up collared tunic suits and large sunglasses are not only scattered near the No. 3 apron, but also at all the commanding heights of the airport. It also fell into the control of the security department.
"Uncle Weng, are you trying to fight against terrorism?"
Liang Yuan looked dumbfounded at the dark green number-painted tracked armored transport vehicle parked next to the No. 3 apron, suitable for the Northeast region.
"When I came in, I seemed to have seen a heavy sniper."
Ning Wanjia leaned against Liang Yuan¡¯s ear and added.
"Let the subordinates stretch their bodies so that they will not become unfamiliar with their business. Xiaoyuan will not be short of the gas money."
Weng Chengji said with a smile.
Liang Yuan thought for a while and felt that it was not a problem to keep looking for opportunities to train like this. The last time he attacked a small socially active organization in a bathing center, Weng Chengji also dispatched armored vehicles and asked tentatively: "How about Let Uncle Wilson and the Army?Need the establishment of a militia group? The funding group comes out. "
"Xiaoyuan, this is a good idea!"
Weng Chengji was so excited that he rubbed his hands together, and after a while he realized that he would probably have to follow Liang Yuan and the twins running around, but in the end he did not recommend himself to be the leader of the militia group.
"Xiao Yuan, just wait and see. Once the militia is established, we will win the national competition."
Influenced by the republic's popular war theory in the 1960s, the construction of the republic's militia in the 1990s was much larger than in the future. Most of the republic's reserve training after the new century focused on disaster relief and personal tactical abilities. In the 1990s, it was There are militia divisions. For example, the Shougang Militia Division in the capital has infantry, artillery, armor, reconnaissance, engineering and even chemical defense troops. When put on the battlefield, it is hard to say whether an ordinary Republic B division can defeat the militia division. .
The national militia competition mentioned by Weng Chengji is generally held every two or three years. The largest scale of active troops will be dispatched to compete with the militia reserve forces at the battalion and company level.