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Chapter 612 Don't Believe?
Director Wang, who left Zhang Qihang's place and returned to his office, picked up the phone and dialed out. After a while, he said with a smile on his face: "Dean Miao, hello, I'm Wang Guangrong from the Shungeng Military Region."

The Dean Miao on the other end of the phone is obviously very clear about Director Wang's identity. Hearing this, he immediately smiled and said, "It's Director Wang. Let me tell you, Director Wang. It's useless for you to call me. The whereabouts of these army aviation students have been arranged long ago, how many more people do you want in your army aviation regiment? Figure out your own way."

This dean Miao is none other than the vice president in charge of helicopter pilot training at the Air Force Aviation University. As the helicopter cadets in his hands have almost completed all the courses and officially served in the army, they came to the army during this period of time. The relevant leaders of the aviation unit and the naval aviation unit were about to blow up the phone number of Vice President Miao. When he heard the call from Director Wang, his first reaction was that the other party came to "go through the back door" and hoped that he could do more. A few helicopter trainees were assigned to their troops, but they quickly refused when they came up.

"Haha... Dean Miao, I didn't call you for this matter," Director Wang said with a smile, "I have good news to tell you."

"Good news?" Dean Miao heard the words and was dubious: "What good news?"

"If I remember correctly, our academy uses Zhi-5 helicopters to train helicopter cadets," Director Wang asked knowingly, "Our country does not yet have a dedicated entry-level instructor similar to the TH-55 of the Mi Army. Helicopter, right?"

"Well, that's right..."

When Dean Miao heard this, he became more and more confused: You, Wang Guangrong, are the director of the equipment department of the Army Aviation of the Shungeng Military Region. You should be very clear about this situation. Why did you suddenly mention this to me?
"Then if I tell you that a company in our country has also developed an entry-level trainer helicopter similar to the TH-55 of the Mi Army..."

"It's impossible!" Before Director Wang finished speaking, he was interrupted by Dean Miao, who said decisively: "I know our domestic helicopter companies very well, tell me, which company's product is this? Hafei or Changfei? We only have two helicopter manufacturers in China, why didn’t I know that they still have this kind of entry-level two-seater helicopter product?”

The smallest helicopter currently being produced or developed in China is the Zhi-11 that Changfei is working on, but even the Zhi-11 is a light-duty helicopter with a maximum take-off weight of more than 2 tons and a turboshaft-8A turboshaft engine. Helicopter products are much larger than the TH-700, which has a maximum take-off weight of only a little over 55 kilograms and is known as the "cradle of US Army Aviation pilots". Therefore, it is naturally impossible to be Zhi-11. It is just my understanding of the development of the domestic helicopter industry. , Dean Miao felt that Director Wang felt that the other party was talking nonsense.

Director Wang was not at all surprised by Dean Miao's reaction. He said with a smile, "I know you don't believe me, but what if I tell you that this plane is now parked at our army's airport?"

"It's impossible!" Dean Miao couldn't believe it any more: "Which company are you telling me this is a product? What is their product development code name?"

He is going to spend time with Wang Guangrong today: Since you dare to have fun with me, I will let you know the consequences of making fun of me.

"The full name of this company is Lu Province Huateng Industrial Group," Director Wang said with a smile, "This company is still a bit famous. Huateng brand motorcycles and Huateng brand electric bicycles are produced by their unit..."

"So it's this company?!"

Dean Miao suddenly realized that of course he had heard of the names of Huateng motorcycles and Huateng electric vehicles. Advertisements for these two products appeared on CCTV every day, and even many teachers and family members of the Air Force Aviation University bought one. Huateng brand motorcycles and Huateng brand electric bicycles are used as transportation, especially Huateng electric bicycles, with their convenient driving methods, are now affirmed by many female comrades in the school and the families of faculty members: Motorbikes that need to practice how to put gears in order to be able to drive normally, electric bicycles that can be seamlessly connected with bicycles and have no difficulty in learning are undoubtedly more suitable for women's appetite.

So much so that in the Air Force Aviation University, the number of Huateng brand electric bicycles is increasing, and even Dean Miao has bought one for daily transportation, but even so, Dean Miao still has no choice Connect such a company that produces motorcycles and electric bicycles with a company that sounds extremely tall like a helicopter.So he couldn't help but wonder: "They still produce helicopters?"

"Dean Miao, that's the case," Director Wang explained to Dean Miao in the original way: "Huateng Group not only produces motorcycles and electric bicycles, they are also the largest manufacturer of unmanned helicopters for agricultural plant protection in the world today. and the development unit..."

Dean Miao listened in awe!
Although he doesn't know how big the global market for agricultural plant protection unmanned helicopters is, but since the Huateng Group can be the "world's largest", they were quite good at unmanned helicopters at the beginning.

And going one step further, unmanned helicopters are still helicopters anyway, and unmanned helicopters and manned helicopters are still in common in many aspects, such as aerodynamics. Aspects are not blank, there is some accumulation.

He nodded to Wang Guangrong and said, "I understand, you continue."

"Yes! In the process of promoting unmanned helicopters for plant protection, Huateng Group found that the operating efficiency of unmanned helicopters was still not comparable to that of manned helicopters, so they wanted to develop an ultra-light type with a maximum take-off weight of several One-hundred-kilogram, single-seater or two-seater manned helicopters can carry about 100 kilograms of aviation pesticides for spraying operations at a time. In addition, it is best to use piston engines as power to minimize the purchase cost of users.

After comparing light and ultralight helicopters around the world, they decided to use the R22 two-seater helicopter of the Robinson Helicopter Company of the United States as the reference object..."

"Robinson R22?"

As the vice president of the Air Force Aeronautical University, Vice President Miao has a deep understanding of military and civilian aircrafts all over the world. Immediately I had an impression, and said immediately: "I have some impressions of this aircraft. Its designer seems to be inspired by TH-22 to design this aircraft?"

Director Wang smiled and complimented: "President Miao, you are well-informed, I don't know about that..."

"Fuck you, play sloppy with me?" Vice President Miao scolded with a smile, and then said in confusion: "But having said that, although the Robinson R22 is only a model with a maximum take-off weight of more than 700 kilograms...according to the division of Europe and the United States Standardly speaking, it belongs to the ultra-light category of helicopters, but the technical difficulty is more than one level higher than that of unmanned helicopters, so it is not so easy to handle, right?"

"Haha... we have to thank our big brother of the Soviet Union for this," Director Wang became more and more happy, and explained with a smile: "Isn't this the disintegration of the Soviet Union? Mr. Zhang of the Huateng Group has an idea, and he will go to Russia immediately. The Miri Design Bureau and the Kamov Design Bureau dug up some middle-level backbones. For these middle-level backbones of the Miri Design Bureau and the Kamov Design Bureau, this ultra-light helicopter with a maximum take-off weight of only a few hundred kilograms is not yet A piece of cake?"

Vice President Miao suddenly realized, and nodded again and again: "So that's the case! So that's the case! Then how did the Huateng Group get online with you?"

"They don't have helicopter pilots..."

Before Director Wang finished speaking, Vice President Miao slapped his head vigorously: "Look at my brain!"

Yes, no matter how powerful their Huateng Group is, in Huaxia in 1995, pilots, especially pilots who could fly helicopters, were basically in the army. Didn't the Huateng Group only cooperate with the Army Aviation Unit of the Shungeng Military Region?

Director Wang went on to say: "It was also when Huateng Group came to us to borrow pilots, and we suddenly thought that although the performance of this ultra-light helicopter is limited, it can also be used for daily basic flight training for pilots. Keep it in hand, after all, this plane is cheap, and the cost of daily use is lower..."

Cheap?

Less expensive for everyday use?

Can it be used to allow pilots to carry out daily basic flight training and keep pilots in touch?

This... Isn't this the most urgent need for helicopter pilot training on the academy side?
Thinking of this, Vice President Miao couldn't bear it any longer, and quickly interrupted Director Wang: "Director Wang, wait a minute! You said this plane is cheap, how cheap is it? Besides, how low can the daily cost be?"

Director Wang did not hide it: "Mr. Zhang of Huateng Group assured me that the price is only a little over 100 million. As for the daily use cost, if it is a point-to-point connection from A to B Flying, the fuel consumption per hour is about 20 liters, which is the biggest expense. If it is flight training, it is hard to say, but we roughly estimated that, in general, the hourly flight cost should be It won't exceed 300 yuan. Oh, right..."

Speaking of this, Director Wang slapped his head and added: "Mr. Zhang also told me that the power they are using now is the 914 engine from the Austrian ROTAX company. The purchase price of the engine is relatively high, about 35 yuan. Taiwan, they are now developing their own piston aircraft engine fueled by aviation kerosene, and now the entire project is progressing very smoothly. If their self-developed aviation kerosene engine can be successful, they are completely sure that the price of the whole machine will be controlled by then. Live below 100 million."

Vice President Miao was speechless, and now his head was filled with a few figures: the cost of a single-hour flight was no more than 300 yuan...the unit price of the plane was just over 100 million yuan...the cost of a single-hour flight was no more than 300 yuan... The unit price of the plane is just over 100 million...

As the only unit in China that can train and teach helicopter pilots at this stage, Vice President Miao knows the value and significance of these two figures for training more helicopter pilots. Now, the big brother of the army is paying more and more attention to the army aviation The construction and development of troops, but the training of helicopter pilots has always been a shortcoming.

why?
The core reason is that the training cost of pilots is too high.

The entry-level trainer aircraft for Air Force pilots is the first six, and the total flight cost per hour is only a few hundred dollars. Therefore, the same funds can train more qualified fixed-wing aircraft pilots, but helicopters will not work. , The trainer aircraft for domestic helicopter pilot training is Zhi-5, and the flight cost per hour is several thousand dollars more. With the same funds, the number of pilots that can be trained is naturally fewer.

The Air Force Aeronautical University has actually considered introducing the civilian version of TH-55 to train helicopter pilot students, but everyone knows that since the end of the 80s, our relationship with the United States has declined sharply. As the cradle of training Air Force pilots, the Air Force Aeronautical University must naturally gain a firm foothold. The proposal to introduce TH-55 or its civilian version is of course not necessary. But at this time, the Shungeng Military Region suddenly stated that they have a unit in the province Made an entry-level trainer helicopter similar to the US Army TH-55...

After a while, Vice President Miao finally controlled his emotions, and he was not so excited, so he hurriedly asked: "Xiao Wang, what do you think of the performance of this helicopter of Huateng Group?"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Director Wang to reply, he followed up and said, "As for the assignment of helicopter students, you can rest assured. Although the school can't interfere, it's okay to do everyone's ideological work."

Vice President Miao is also a smart person, and he is very clear about the purpose of Director Wang calling him. In the final analysis, isn't it for the school to assign more qualified helicopter pilots to their unit? Of course, you can pretend to be stupid, and the other party won't say anything, but can this kind of advantage be taken advantage of?

"Hey...thank you, Dean Miao," Director Wang was immediately satisfied, and naturally he would not hide it: "This helicopter has just started the first phase of test flight, such as the test flight of special weather conditions such as high cold, high heat, and high altitude. The work has not yet started. If you are interested in this project, the dean, I suggest you contact him now. You can also communicate directly with him if you have any questions. Our school has come forward. As long as Huateng Group is not stupid , they must know what to do, right?"

"Haha..." Vice President Miao was very happy: "That's the truth..."

Director Wang was also very happy, but after hanging up the phone, he always felt that something was wrong, and suddenly slapped his thigh forcefully: I said that I seemed to have forgotten something, most likely I forgot to ask for favors from Xiao Zhang—— —I worked so hard to bring such a big order to your unit, shouldn't you express it?

(End of this chapter)