Chapter 908 There are legends about me everywhere in the world (New January, please vote for me~)
After circling for about 20 minutes, the Airbus A320 finally received the landing order.
For the Chinese delegation, participating in the Paris Air Show is actually something they are familiar with.
More than ten years ago, China Aviation Industry came here for the first time when it went abroad.
In fact, if you look at the delegation level alone, this year is not even the largest one.
However, the equipment brought is definitely heavyweight—
The entire Chinese delegation has a total of 5 aircraft, excluding one A320 responsible for transporting personnel and one Ilyushin 76MF responsible for support tasks. The other three will participate in the exhibition in the form of ground display + aviation performance.
They are one J-10E, one JJ-9E and one FBC1A, also known as JH-7A.
Because the J-7F has participated in too many air shows, and the appearance characteristics of the second-generation aircraft are still relatively obvious, it ultimately failed to get a valuable spot.
The delegation even considered whether to fly to Paris on a C808 passenger plane.
In this way, there will be one more model that can be exhibited.
But in the end, we still have to consider that after all, the C808 has just been put into commercial operation and is still at a high position on the bathtub curve of failure rate. Even when flying domestic routes, Hufei Group sometimes has to send engineers to participate in the guarantee, and it rashly flies long-distance international flights. The route requires three stops in the middle, so the risk is relatively high.
So I chose a safer plan.
In any case, C808 has obtained airworthiness certificates from Europe, the United States, China and the CIS, and there will be many opportunities to debut in the future.
When members of the Chinese delegation descended to the apron through the ramp, the three exhibition aircraft that had landed early had already been towed to their respective booths.
JJ-9E and FBC1A are parked normally on both sides of the entrance to the Huaxia exhibition area.
But the J-10E was not together with the other two, but had other arrangements...
After greeting the representatives of the organizations stationed in France and representatives of the air show organizer, Guo Ruiqing also arranged the task of decorating the exhibition area in an orderly manner.
As for himself, he took several other people, including Yang Quanzhi, to wander around the air show area that had been divided into zones.
It's not exactly just hanging out.
In fact, the reason why the superiors asked him, the head of the Science and Technology Development Department, to lead a team to participate in the exhibition this time, instead of asking someone from the foreign trade or publicity department to take the lead, has another meaning -
Take this opportunity to track and judge the aviation industry level of each participating country and find the future development direction.
So, in addition to the normal air show-related tasks, Guo Ruiqing also needs to submit an industry development report for the new century after the air show.
However, as the team leader, he would be extremely busy after the air show opened, and would not be able to spend a lot of time to see the conditions in other countries' exhibition areas.
So we can only take advantage of the period before the official opening of the air show to get as much useful information as possible.
If we must find one special feature of this air show, it would be that the number of Asian countries participating in the show has increased significantly.
In addition to China itself, which is already an old face, David, Japan, South Korea, and India also sent their own delegations.
The scale of the exhibition area is not small.
However, as a new face, most products still appear in the form of models or display boards.
Especially Japan, due to restrictions on the three principles of arms exports, still attended in the name of "guests" instead of exhibitors.
However, they still brought a C1 transport aircraft and a US1 seaplane for real-life demonstration—
These two models are unarmed and can be regarded as "edge balls" in a sense.
However, in addition to these two conspicuous big guys, Yang Quanzhi keenly noticed that there were two seemingly inconspicuous models placed in the corner of the Japanese exhibition area.
One of them is highly similar to an F16, but there are some slight differences in the shape of the wings.
As a manager of the Rongfei Group, he was naturally able to recognize that this was an F2 fighter jet that the Self-Defense Force had just put into service a few years ago.
Although it is designed based on the F16, its size, especially its wingspan, is actually much larger than that of the F16, but its power has not changed.
Compared to a fighter, it is closer to an attack aircraft or a fighter-bomber.
In fact, this is indeed the case in the establishment sequence of the Air Self-Defense Force.
As for the other one next to it...
Even as a model, it is a bit too rough, and it is obviously just a design concept.
If I have to say it, it's a bit like a combination of F18 and F22.
Even Yang Quanzhi couldn't recognize it for a while, so he had to get closer and take a look.
“Advanced Technology Demonstration Machine Project X (ATD-X)…”
Yang Quanzhi pushed up his glasses, and at this moment he heard a shutter sound coming from behind him.
He turned around and found the team leader Guo Ruiqing standing behind him, holding a camera in his hand.
"I said Lao Guo, this little... this Japanese guy is not very honest..."
It was not until entering the next Indian exhibition area that Yang Quanzhi spoke to Guo Ruiqing in Chinese.
Two real transport models were sent to attract attention at the door, but there were many combat models inside to test the reaction of various parties.
It is very consistent with the Japanese character who likes to do little things secretly.
“Can see it.”
Guo Ruiqing nodded:
“In recent years, as our development speed has accelerated, the United States has also gradually relaxed its control over Japan and South Korea, especially Japan.” “If nothing else, Japan does not have wind tunnels or high-altitude experiments. Things like Taiwan, like the ATD-X project just now, would be impossible to establish without the help of Americans.”
While talking, the two came to an airplane model on the Indian side.
Single engine, light weight, air inlets on both sides, tailless large delta wing…
no doubt.
LCA “brilliance”.
Of course, it is 2001 now, only 17 years have passed since the LCA project was officially established.
For a third-generation fighter, this span is not too exaggerated.
In addition, the prototype has never made its first flight, so no one knows what the details of this model are.
Therefore, adhering to the principle of showing leniency to the enemy, Guo Ruiqing still carefully took photos and records of this model.
Compared to their Japanese counterparts who were quite cold and even a bit hostile just now, the two Indian guys standing here are quite enthusiastic.
When I saw someone finally stopping in front of their booth, they started talking with each other with witty remarks regardless of who they were.
The only problem is that since Chinglish and Hinglish are not in the same language system at all, and the two of them speak very fast, Guo Ruiqing and Yang Quanzhi look at each other, and no one understands. What on earth is the other person talking about.
In the end, I could only briefly express my friendship and blessings, and then ran away at the speed of light.
After that, Korea and the Davidic Kingdom had even less bright spots.
Therefore, after briefly visiting the situation of his Asian counterparts, Guo Ruiqing decided to focus his main attention on the European exhibition area.
It is said to be the "European Exhibition Area", but it is actually the main exhibition area of this air show.
In order to facilitate the media to take unified photos, the more gimmicky models were parked together before the opening.
Within a few steps of walking in, everyone had already seen many classic scenes such as F15E and Su-27SM sitting side by side, as well as Rafale and Typhoon going head-to-head.
He is really not afraid of big things.
The J-10E brought by China, together with Saab's JAS39, was parked not far from the European Shuangfeng.
“Good guy…”
Guo Ruiqing raised his camera and took a group photo of the four planes.
Four models that all adopt the canard + delta wing design appear in one photo at the same time.
I'm afraid there won't be many opportunities like this in the future…
Immediately afterwards, he walked close to several airplanes.
And Yang Quanzhi followed closely behind.
The aviation industry, especially the aviation industry Rongfei, is quite concerned about gusts and typhoons.
After all, it is considered the same-level product as the J-10E.
Although it's not really competitive in practice…
In addition to aircraft, Britain actually also brought its power, the EJ200 engine.
Place it next to EF2000 and display it as a separate exhibit.
As an old enemy that has been in tit-for-tat with the United Kingdom for hundreds of years, the French were naturally not to be outdone, and also put out the M88 engine alone.
In this case, since they all came, Guo Ruiqing read them one by one in order.
until…
When he walked to the display board of the M88-2 engine, he suddenly saw several square characters on it.
To be precise, it's a LOGO with a few square characters printed on it—
An abstract shape that looks like an aircraft engine fan spinning.
It says below...
China Aviation Development Co., Ltd.
Further down is the English abbreviation.
AECC.
That's right, the LOGO of China Aerospace Power Group.
and the Snecma Group's LOGO are printed side by side in the corner of the M88-2 engine display board.
"ha?"
Looking at this familiar yet unfamiliar name, Guo Ruiqing felt numb all over:
“What about the most basic trust between people?”
“Isn't it better not to bring any physical objects to the exhibition...”
(End of this chapter)
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