money trouble

Chapter 716 It's Over!

After drinking half a bottle of red wine, Wu Qian got up and went to the window and opened the curtains. He looked at the military factory that was still lit up, planning something for the future in his mind.

Buying an oil and gas company is only the first step. The next step is to tighten the company's business and divert all resources to the exploitation of shale oil. At the same time, the company's senior management is appointed to hold a high-profile press conference to show that they will not cut production and promote shale oil production. Oil bright future.

After thinking about it, after a while, Minister Ross called back. It can be seen that the other party did contact David Energy directly without any delay.

The whole thing went surprisingly smoothly. Minister Ross only told the director of David Energy about the conditions proposed by Wu Qian. After a little verification, he immediately nodded his head after receiving a positive answer.

This is within Secretary Ross' expectations. He is well aware of the current situation of shale oil-related groups in the United States. The median cost of exploitation is $47 a barrel, plus transportation and storage and other messy expenses. The median cost is Forty-seven dollars a barrel.

(The average is playing hooligans, you must say the median!)
There are many oil and gas companies that can achieve lower than this cost price, such as Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Occidental Petroleum and other giants, in the current environment where the international crude oil price is only [-] US dollars a barrel, they can still achieve profitability.

Even Exxon Mobil once said that even if the price of crude oil drops to [-] dollars a barrel, they can still survive strongly!
But after all, they are leading companies, representing only the top three or five companies, while the situation of most small and medium-sized oil and gas companies is very bleak.

In the past three months, as many as [-] oil and gas companies have filed for bankruptcy protection. As the company's debts mature, according to the current trend of international oil prices, the bankruptcy of oil and gas companies is very likely to explode. .

The United States will save the market, but only those medium and large enterprises, and even those leading enterprises, because those leading enterprises manage the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people. If these people lose their jobs, the society will be in turmoil. As for the survival of small and medium-sized enterprises, it is already I can't take care of it...

Wu Qian thanked Minister Ross very happily, and made an appointment to start the handover immediately after arriving in the United States, so that the other party could prepare in advance.

"Today is a good day, everything you want can come true, hey, it can be a bazaar!"

Humming a ditty, Wu Qian took a shower, lay down on the bed happily, and fell into a dream.

In the afternoon of the second day, a helicopter flew over the sky of Braau, the big city of Soran, without stopping, and headed northwest.

Wu Qian wanted to see for himself where Solan found oil seedlings. He would not despise this mineral because of the drop in crude oil prices, because from the beginning to the end, he never thought of mining Solan's crude oil and selling it directly. So primitive.

The speed of the helicopter was very fast, and it didn't take long to arrive at the area where David found the oil seedlings.

"Boss, look over there, those stones are my markers, they were there when I called you that day!"

David pointed to a place in the southwest and said.

Wu Qian looked in the direction of David's finger, and the height of the helicopter had dropped to 300 meters. He could clearly see patches of black marks in the khaki sand.

"Are those black things the so-called oil seedlings?"

Wu Qian asked through the calling device.

David nodded and said, "Yes, BOSS, that is a symbol of oil underground."

Only when the underground crude oil reserves are abundant to a certain extent, will the phenomenon of oil seedlings appear, otherwise, it will be discovered with the help of exploration equipment.

Ball was about to control the helicopter to descend, but Wu Qian signaled that he could return. He just came to check the environment and had no other meaning.

After returning to the military factory, Wu Qian made a phone call to inform Xiong Yali that Solan's afforestation plan will start immediately, and the afforestation project will be stepped up on the basis of the original plan.

Flying hundreds of kilometers with the helicopter, while seeing the oil seedlings, Wu Qian once again felt the seriousness of Solan desertification and the urgent need for improvement.

Regardless of whether greening will be taken into consideration during the United Nations field visit, it is worth doing just to attract investment and improve Solan's environment. This is to create a hidden wealth for his own future.

One day passed, and it was time to leave for the United States.

In the early morning, the morning light shines on the earth, and there are many figures busy in the Baibela International Airport, including scientific researchers in white coats and Maozi in camouflage, which seem to be extremely busy.

Two 200-meter-long ejection guide rails are laid on the airport runway. Behind one end of the runway, system controllers, power supply devices, energy storage devices, high-power generators and other large equipment are placed in an orderly manner.

Sophisticated instruments and dilapidated airports are quite incompatible, but they fit together like this.

All the staff working at the airport looked extremely solemn, as if they were facing a huge challenge.

Isn't it just an ordinary experiment, it can't be called a huge challenge, but because of the change of the experimental aircraft, the researchers feel unprecedented pressure.

Originally, the aircraft used for this experiment was a MiG-29 provided by Kureta. The MiG-29 fighter weighs about 380 tons, but now it has been replaced by an A[-] that is nearly nine times larger...

At this moment, Bauer was carefully driving the A380, snapping the two strongest landing gears into the propulsion slots at the end of the guide rails.

From the moment the Smiley A380 made an emergency landing in Baipela, it was doomed that it would not be easy to take off from Baipela. The Airbus maintenance team kept asking how to take off when they were repairing the landing gear.

The answer Bauer gave them was to take off when the airport was built half a year later...

The runway at Baipela Airport is only 2000 meters long. Without the intervention of external forces, the Smiley A380 would not be able to reach the take-off speed.

At this time, external force must be used.

This is why Wu Qian insisted that Clough and the others speed up the progress and build the scale model, because he wanted to use it!

Your own territory is good, if you want to catapult a plane, you can catapult a plane, and the entire airport can be used unscrupulously, including the sky, fighter jets can fly as much as they want, without any restrictions!
Clough and another researcher sat in front of the system controller and focused on debugging.

Prior to this, researchers have used computers to conduct detailed simulation calculations, and only need the electromagnetic pulse catapult to exert 50.00% energy efficiency, which is enough to boost the A380 to reach the expected initial speed.

The difficulty does not seem to be great, but the trouble is that this is the first time, God knows if it will be successful.

After confirming the control procedure again, Clough stood up and walked towards the boss who was "researching" the supercapacitor.

"Boss, I still stick to my opinion. First test with MiG-29 to ensure that there are no problems with each system, and then help your plane take off. The high-power generator can guarantee that it will be fully charged within 10 minutes without delay. You have too much time."

The rigorous attitude of scientific research makes Clough unwilling to take risks.

If it is used on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the whole set of equipment will be more complete, and it can almost achieve seamless charging and discharging, but now it is a scale model after all, and the ultra-high-strength steel is limited, so it cannot be achieved to that extent.

Wu Qian turned around and looked at Clough, and asked with a smile: "Clough, think about it, even if you fail, does it matter?"

Clough was taken aback, and thought about it carefully, if it failed, the plane did not reach the expected speed on the ejection trajectory, just slow down, it seems that there will be no danger...

"Bauer has already told me that if the distance of 200 meters cannot be accelerated to 140 kilometers per hour, he is absolutely sure to stop the plane within 500 meters. Don't worry, Clough, I believe in your team!"

How could Wu Qian not take his own life seriously? Before that, he had already understood the possibility in detail. Facts have proved that if you succeed, you will fly, and if you fail, you will stop. There is no other possibility.

If the speed of the aircraft can be increased to 200 kilometers per hour on the 140-meter ejection guide rail, then only need to use the runway of about 1000 meters to complete the speed increase, otherwise, it will stop. What about the remaining 700 meters of the runway? Everything is enough.

(A little foreigner sat in the A380 cockpit and followed the whole process of take-off. He explained in great detail and borrowed some data.)
Clough shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands with a helpless expression. The facts were indeed as the boss said, and he had nothing to say, so he said: "You are the boss, you have the final say, but if it succeeds, we will lose the opportunity to open the champagne with you." Time to celebrate."

Wu Qian laughed out loud. He didn't expect Clough to have a humorous side.

"Don't worry, Clough, there are plenty of opportunities to celebrate. If the experiment is successful, you continue to improve. How to create the greatest value and give you rich rewards is my business, just leave it to me."

Time passed slowly, half an hour passed, the sun rose and broke through the mist, shining unscrupulously on the earth, the coolness of the morning dissipated seven or eight times, and a touch of dry heat rose from the ground.

Clough has never been idle, shuttling back and forth between the energy storage equipment, the main console, and the guide rails.

When the time came, Wu Qian and his group boarded the plane very calmly. When they entered the cabin door, Wu Qian turned around and shouted to Clough: "Clough, I trust you, it's over!"

After finishing speaking, Wu Qian gave Clough a thumbs up, then turned and walked into the cabin.

The hatch was closed, Clough returned to the main controller of the catapult, and finally checked the parameters of the energy storage device and energy conversion system on one side, and found that there was no problem, so he passed the communication device.

"The electromagnetic catapult type A has been detected correctly, and the first actual test can be started, please instruct!"

The other end of the communication device is the cockpit of the A380.

Bauer was much more relaxed than Clough, and the failure of the ejection was no big deal to him. He said relaxedly: "Please start the electromagnetic pulse ejection after the countdown of ten seconds! OVER!"

After all, Bauer flipped the switches in the cockpit with his fingers like a butterfly piercing through flowers, and Wu Qian, who was in the co-pilot seat, was dizzy from seeing the control switches one by one.

For this takeoff, Wu Qian did not choose to sit in the comfortable "plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum" compartment, but chose a location with an excellent view. This is a very important takeoff!

When Bauer said "OVER", the countdown began in Wu Qian's heart.

"Ten, nine, eight... two, one... let's go... I C!"

When the countdown ended, Wu Qian's eyes suddenly went black, and he regained his vision after a split second. A sense of suffocation came to his heart, and the blood on his face faded at a visible speed. He couldn't speak until he finished speaking. .

Wu Qian was firmly pressed on the cabin seat by the huge acceleration G value. He felt that Ball seemed to be talking about something, but he had no time to take care of it. He just wanted to experience the pleasure brought to him by this acceleration. Thrill!

The whole process was very short, but after five or six seconds, the violent acceleration suddenly disappeared, Wu Qian's body swayed forward violently, and the five-point safety belt firmly protected him without any harm.

"Boss, it's a success!"

Ball's mentality was much more relaxed than Wu Qian's. He looked at the speedometer and said excitedly: "The speed has reached 170 kilometers per hour, continue to accelerate, and get ready to take off!"

Bauer was not the only one who was happy and excited. The researchers on the ground looked at the various data in the monitoring equipment and were also very excited because the experiment was a success!
The big thing of about two hundred tons was violently pushed out by the electromagnetic pulse device, and within a short distance of 200 meters, it accelerated from rest to 170 kilometers per hour, the strength can be imagined.

If it is actually carried on an aircraft carrier, the ejection guide rail is only a little more than 100 meters at most, but the weight of the carrier-based aircraft is also much lighter than that of the A380. It only needs to import various parameters, and the computer can easily calculate the results.

The MiG-380 carrier-based aircraft can be ejected according to the level of the A29 ejection just now, and the speed can be increased to 100 kilometers per hour within 350 meters, which fully meets the take-off speed requirements and is perfect.

The most important thing is that this equipment is not the final and complete form of electromagnetic catapult. Except that the guide rail is used more than when it is equipped with an aircraft carrier, the specifications of other systems are simple and crude for actual combat needs.

Whizzing……

The propelling claws slowly returned to the starting point from the guide rail, and Clough looked at the smiling face of the A380, whose nose was tilted up and ready to take off, with an unconcealable smile on his face from the bottom of his heart.

This is the first actual test of the catapult for ejecting carrier-based aircraft, using an A380 as a guinea pig. I am afraid there will never be such a luxurious scientific research team in the world!

"Don't rush to clean up, immediately turn on the high-power generator to charge, and start the MiG-10 ejection experiment in 29 minutes!"

The experiment has been successful, but Clough still does not forget to test it again with the MiG-29, because there are many parameters that need to be based on this carrier-based aircraft.

The atmosphere at the airport changed from dignified to relaxed when the smiling A380 took off. Everyone had no smiling faces at first, but a very serious face, but when everyone saw the big plane in the sky, After the smiling face, all unconsciously raised a smile.

(End of this chapter)