The Military-industrial Scientific Research System of the Academic Master Chapter 133

Chapter 133 The possibility of a 100-ton passenger plane (Added update for flankerr's reward)

The next week flew by like a flash, and it soon came to two days before the opening of the Xiangzhou Air Show.

In order to adapt to the military's updated equipment naming habits after entering the 1990s, and to make it easier to communicate and understand when facing possible foreign customers, the final product of Project 83 was officially named - J-8C.

Chang Haonan, Yao Mengna and others, as technical support staff of the exhibitors, naturally arrived at Xiangzhou in advance and stayed at a hotel near the Jinwan District International Air Show Center according to the arrangement of the exhibitors.

This high-end hotel can be said to have been specially built for the Xiangzhou Air Show. Exhibitors, media, and invited guests all stayed here.

The first Xiangzhou Airshow was not divided into professional days and open days as it was later. From the first day, everyone could buy tickets to visit.

So people who eat melons can actually live here.

It's just that among ordinary people in this era, there are not many people with enough money in their pockets to make a special trip to watch the air show, and even fewer can afford to stay in this hotel.

At the 14th Air Show in later generations, Chang Haonan also came here during his vacation.

As it turned out, the hotel was fully booked a month in advance.

Yang Fenghao, the chief designer of the aircraft, did not follow.

It is said to be "technical support", but aircraft designers are really of little use in this situation.

The focus is still on the technical workers from Factory 112 and the ground staff from Beiling Airport who came with them - Xiangzhou Airport is a purely civilian airport, and it is impossible for anyone to maintain fighter jets from various countries, so these tasks need to be done by exhibitors.

It's okay if you're in the country, you just need to send someone. If you go to a foreign country, especially a place where the aviation standards are very different from your home country, you have to bring your own support equipment and even aviation fuel.

Otherwise, it can only be displayed on the ground.

Take the Warriors Aerobatic Team as an example. When they perform abroad, they will be followed by at least one IL-76 transport aircraft for accompanying support.

So going abroad to participate in an exhibition may seem simple, but in fact it is quite a test of a country's aviation industry level.

“Twenty-six years…”

Chang Haonan, who was lying in bed, originally wanted to take a rest, but memories about the past or the future flowed out slowly but continuously like fine sand in a funnel, making him unable to sleep no matter what.

Chang Haonan, who was tossing and turning and unable to sleep, simply gave up the idea of resting, got up and went to the window to open the curtains.

Out the window is the 4,000-meter-long 4E-class runway at Xiangjiang Airport.

There was a faint roar of airplanes from the horizon.

Chang Haonan raised his head and looked into the distance.

A formation composed of an Il-78 tanker and two Flankers are aiming at the runway and slowly descending.

As one of the few foreign exhibitors that can conduct actual flight demonstrations, they occupied a large part in the early publicity of the air show.

Relatively speaking, the J-8C, which decided to participate in the exhibition at the last moment, failed to obtain any publicity resources.

After all, in this era where print media and radio and television are the main communication carriers, ten days is still too short.

Higher in the sky behind them, there is also a twin-engine medium-sized passenger plane circling.

After thinking for a while, Chang Haonan finally remembered that it should be a Tu-204S, which is the cargo aircraft type of Tu-204.

Tupolev has always hoped that this model can open up China's civil aviation market.

To be fair, for an aircraft that completed its first flight in 1990, the Tu-204 was not considered backward in the early 1990s.

But the timing of this first flight is destined to be a tragedy.

Without the support of the Warsaw Pact market, this single model cannot compete with the well-established Boeing or Airbus families, not to mention that they do not have enough funds to further optimize the aircraft.

For domestic airlines, there is absolutely no reason to introduce a new aircraft that has no special advantages in performance and is not compatible with the maintenance and support system of Boeing, Airbus and McDonnell Douglas. So Tupolev's efforts were in the wrong direction from the beginning.

Because if we think about it differently, this model can still be seen as a military special aircraft platform.

No matter what, it is better than Figure 154M and Yun 8...

More importantly, if the various data of the aircraft can be adjusted to comply with the standards of the Chinese Aviation Industry, it can also be used as a practice for manufacturing 100-ton passenger aircraft.

It is already early November, and Hufei's MD90 production project has basically entered the countdown to life.

In the original timeline, after the MD90 production line was stopped, the Ministry of Aviation placed its hopes on the Europeans, hoping to produce a 100-seat AE100 small mainline passenger aircraft in China.

The result, of course, was unsurprisingly nothing.

Later, Airbus took the AE100 design directly and built the A318 passenger aircraft almost intact.

In short, after several twists and turns, the aircraft production line that was upgraded at a large cost had to be used to provide tools and equipment for the Airbus aircraft assembly line in Tianjin.

Even more valuable skilled workers with experience in large-scale aircraft manufacturing also had no choice but to resign or change careers because of the loss of orders.

It also means that the technical system that was barely built after many twists and turns since the Yun-10 project collapsed.

Compared to Yun 10 itself, this is a more heartbreaking loss.

There has been a technological gap for more than ten years since then. The largest aircraft that China can produce on its own has always been the 60-ton Y-8.

It was not until the C919 No. 001 prototype rolled off the assembly line in 2015 that Shanghai Aircraft Corporation resumed its mainline passenger aircraft assembly capabilities.

In fact, both Airbus and Boeing are at their peak right now, and it is impossible for them to agree to complete the main part of aircraft production in China.

As for switching to using Chinese standards to produce aircraft...

　　　Laughing to death, there was nothing so good in my dream.

But Tupolev was in trouble and it was different.

Except for Figure 160, as long as you give money, you can basically give whatever you want.

With the precedent of Sukhoi Design Bureau making concessions on Project 11, there is no need to worry about the Russians being as stubborn as in previous lives.

Furthermore, since it involves the adjustment of production standards, it is inevitable to cooperate with Chinese technical personnel.

In this way, we can also learn a little bit from the design of large aircraft.

After all, Chang Haonan cannot provide others with proficiency like the techniques in the novels about cultivating immortals.

The projects he will face in the future will only become more and more complex, and it is unlikely that the main work will be completed by one person like improving the design of wings or compressors.

In the field of engineering, experience is at least as important as theory.

Otherwise, Britain and the United States, which were once infrastructure madmen and major shipbuilding countries, would not have lost these capabilities in such a short period of time.

"Um…"

Chang Haonan looked out the window at Tu 204S, which was already sliding to the ground, and a clearer idea emerged in his mind.

It's still a win-win situation.

A win-win situation means I win twice.

(End of this chapter)

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