Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 125 The Arrival of the Father of Aerospace and the Father of Boeing
"Cheng Nuo, you know."

"The ones standing in front of you are none other than the 'Father of China Aviation' and the 'Father of Boeing'."

"And not only did you not give a warm welcome just now, but you also gave an over-the-shoulder fall, and fell out of a dog's mud. It was a disaster."

When Cheng Nuo learned the names of the two, the above conversation immediately came to mind, and he regretted it in his heart.

"You shouldn't, you shouldn't, you really shouldn't touch that pair of candles, otherwise there would be no such jokes, alas."

But when he saw the messy hair of the two people with leaves and branches stuck on them, Cheng Nuo almost couldn't hold back, he pursed his lips and stepped forward to help.

"Forget it, I'll do it by myself, don't stretch out your hand and throw me out again, the gods can't stand you falling like this." Ba Yuzao wanted to continue complaining, but in the middle of the sentence, he suddenly felt strange in his mouth , hurriedly spit it out, and actually spit out a small half of a grass leaf: "Bah, bah, next time you go out, you should check the almanac first."

No matter how heartless he was, it was impossible for Cheng Nuo to continue gloating and bent down to help the two of them up.

After picking off the branches and leaves on his shoulders, Cheng Nuo apologized again and again: "I'm really sorry, gentlemen, please forgive my blindness. I really don't know if you are here to talk about business. Otherwise, I wouldn't run away." Even, I will even set a table for you in Yu Garden."

Patting the soil on the body with hands will only make it more and more dirty, black and white, it is really ugly, Wang Zhu smiled bitterly: "Professor Cheng, then what did you think we were here for, you can't run here Are you trying to persuade me to drink?"

Feeling the bitterness of the grass juice in his mouth, Bayuzao was still spitting on the ground vigorously. After hearing the conversation between the two, he raised his head and interjected: "I see, I guess they took us as a robbery marriage, no wonder just now I haven't seen the newcomer for a long time, so I put it on hold?"

Wang Zhu patted his head for a moment, puzzled and said: "This is nonsense. There is no reason for a groom who regrets the marriage to come back. Don't they all run away?"

Bayuzao opened his mouth wide and moved his mouth. After seeing that there was no discomfort, he continued: "Not necessarily, I read a book on criminal psychology before returning to China. It said that there are a small number of criminals with narcissistic paranoid personality. Or, they will return to the scene after the fact, so as to obtain a perverted sense of pleasure and control."

What he said sounded good, if Cheng Nuo hadn't touched the hands of the opposite sex in this life, he would really have believed it.

However, he was thrown a big somersault by him, and it would be too much to allow others to say a few words.

In order to make people feel relieved, and also to allow the Academy of Sciences to add two more generals, Cheng Nuo laughed at himself: "Two gentlemen, look at me, even the matchmaker shakes his head when I look like me, where is my fiancée?" , Besides, we can't do such a shameful thing, won't this delay other girls."

Ba Yuzao limped up to Cheng Nuo, held his shoulder with one hand, and said word by word, "So can you do this meeting ceremony? When you threw me into the air just now, I was thinking, Is it because we haven’t returned to China for a long time, and the meeting ceremony has changed from the handshake and handshake before, to the level of throwing shoulders, feeling that the country is changing with each passing day.”

Cheng Nuo turned a deaf ear to the sarcasm, took off his coat, and slowly shook off the dirt on the two of them: "Hey, with the example of the three of us, maybe this kind of meeting ceremony can really spread in a small area Come here, it’s more expensive guests.”

After this series of self-mockery, Cheng Nuo explained the reason, and the bad feelings between the few people were wiped away.

Asking Cheng Nuo to stop throwing dirt, Wang Zhu said politely, "Professor Cheng, there's really no need to do this. You can see that your coat is also dirty. You probably need to wash it well when you go back."

Shaking off the last bit of soil on the other party's trouser legs, Cheng Nuo straightened his waist and said with a smile, "After wearing the clothes for a day, I'm going to go back to wash them. It won't affect anything if I add one or less. You should do more to make it look like this. But you said just now that you came here to ask me to do a charity bazaar?"

Walking out of the bushes, Bayuzao nodded: "When I learned from the newspaper that you were going to hold a bazaar, I saw that it was too late, so I quickly took the nearest boat to come here. I didn't expect that it was raining heavily here, and the boat was not at all. The way is to sail normally, and when it can move and send us to Shanghai, it has been delayed until today."

Wang Zhu also nodded, and explained: "Yes, we came here for two purposes. One is to get a calligraphy like those bosses. While supporting the flood relief work, we also want those masters to return us to China. Put a word on the title of your career."

Cheng Nuo said: "It's really understandable. It's right to start a new business to win a good fortune. How about it? When I bring you to visit in person one day, you don't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face. A single word should be nothing. Big problem. But what do you mean by the second one?"

After a moment of silence, Bayuzao glanced at Wang Zhu, and with his affirmation, Bayuzao opened the suitcase he was carrying, found a blueprint from it, and explained seriously: "In addition to buyers, we also want to be sellers. "

Stretching out the blueprint and pressing the edge of the curled paper, Wang Zhu said seriously: "That's right, we want to auction off this blueprint, or to put it simply, we want to find an investor for our business who is willing to support us." Keep going."

Even though Cheng Nuo didn't know much about machinery, he could tell that it seemed to be an airplane by looking at the outline of the object drawn on the blueprint.

Some unbelievably important things were blatantly laid out on the ground. Cheng Nuo knelt on one knee, trying to get a closer look, be more careful, and be more cautious.

When he saw that there were various sizes marked on it besides the organization chart, Cheng Nuo was convinced. He turned around and shot light from his eyes: "Gentlemen, can you introduce this thing?"

Although the bazaar is over, isn’t the biggest wrist right in front of us? There seems to be a lot of fun in front of us. Bayuzao couldn’t wait to say: “This is the first seaplane we drafted in China. It is designed with two wings and two ridges, and it adopts Curtiss OX5. The engine is expected to have a maximum power of 100 horsepower, a weight of about 1000 kilograms, and a maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour."

This is not Bayuzao talking nonsense, in fact, it is well-founded, and even experimented with old and beautiful things.

Speaking of which, the development of the aviation industry in our country and Western countries started almost at the same time.

In 1903, the Wright Brothers of the United States successfully invented and designed the first small aircraft, realizing the dream of human beings to fly with power for the first time, allowing human dreams to fly with wings, and successfully making more and more people realize this novel transportation The magic of tools.

Eight years later, Feng Ru, an overseas Chinese living in the United States, manufactured the first Chinese aircraft in the United States. Later, Tan Gen, another overseas Chinese living in the United States, also successfully developed a seaplane and won the championship of the World Aircraft Competition.

With the widespread use of aircraft in the military field, China has gradually realized its huge role in future wars. In the same year, the Beiyang government began to send a large number of overseas students to study aircraft manufacturing technology abroad.

Catch up with Yuan Datou who is still the president. In order to gain more rights and interests in China, the United States has proposed to help China train flying diving talents.

Yuan Datou will not give up this opportunity to slaughter a big family, saying that you have to help me train a group of flying diving talents first, and then I will order weapons from you, and boasted to Haikou that there are hundreds of submarines and thousands of aircraft, and there is room for us to cooperate later Vast, in fact, it is secretly necessary to accumulate basic strength for China's flying diving construction, and then manufacture it by itself.

In 1915, Yuan Datou ordered Liu Guanxiong, then chief of the navy, to select twelve talents from the navy to study in the United States, and sent Bayuzao, Wang Zhu, Zeng Yijing, Wang Xiao, etc., who were originally sent by the Qing government to study mechanical engineering in the United Kingdom. The rest went to the United States for further study.

Among them, Bayuzao, Wang Zhu, Zeng Yijing, and Wang Xiao were all transferred to the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After about a year, everyone completed their studies one after another and obtained a master's degree.Among them, Bayuzao was the most talented. With amazing speed and perseverance, he completed all the courses in only 9 months.

It is worth mentioning that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology opened the first aeronautical engineering course in 1914. Bayuzao was the second graduate. There were only 5 graduates in this class, and 4 of them came from China. It can be seen that the aircraft at that time In terms of theoretical research, our Chinese side is not bad.

Knowing about their study experience, Cheng Nuo was also stunned to himself. He completed the master's program in just nine months. No matter what era he was in, he was a monstrous character. Besides, it was Massachusetts, and he didn't stay in college at home. Even a genius is like money. Old, it took a year to get a master's degree.

Of course, as seniors in the same university and the same major, the fate of Ba and Qian is not just that simple.

Regarding the certification of "Father of China Aviation", domestic academic circles are generally controversial. Some people think that the honor should be given to Feng Ru, and some people think that the honor should be given to Yang Xianyi. Brother Bayuzao, that's why Cheng Nuo called him "the father of China Aviation" at first.

Thinking of this, Cheng Nuo even thought, when he goes to the United States to earn a small amount of money and hire foreign academicians, he has to go to MIT to thank him, not only for the "Father of Chinese Aviation (Ba Yuzao)", but also The "Father of China's Aerospace (Old Qian)" has made great contributions to our aerospace industry.

"Professor Cheng, do you see something wrong? If you directly and boldly raise it, you are afraid that the problem on paper will not be exposed. It will be too late when you fly to the sky." Bayuzao looked at Cheng Nuo's face. Qing, muttering in her heart, couldn't hold it back any longer: "If the plane wants to fly into the sky and land normally, it cannot do without the support of mathematics. This aspect is exactly our shortcoming."

Seeing that he was about to misunderstand again, Cheng Nuo, who had suffered a loss once, would not think about falling again, and hurriedly said: "No, I am a real layman in aircraft manufacturing, so I can't ask any professional questions. You have done a good job gone."

"Professor Cheng just now, I think you look bad, are you really worried about other things?" Bayuzao continued to ask worriedly.

"Are you worried about those data? You can rest assured that the data has been verified by us." Turning the blueprint over, Wang Zhu pointed to those parts and said, "The heart of the plane is the engine produced by Curtiss. , This is what Yunhua (Ba Yuzao) personally participated in the design and construction when he was an engineer of the company, and these data are clearer than outsiders.”

After saying this, pointing to the appearance, Wang Zhu went on to say: "As for the appearance, I refer to the "B&W-C" type seaplane with double buoys and wings of Boeing Company, and this aircraft of Boeing Company is the one I personally created." Designed."

Originally, they wanted to come back to serve the motherland directly after graduation, but just in time for Yuan Datou to proclaim himself emperor, and their public funds for studying abroad were gone, so they had to stay in the United States temporarily to find a job. Bayuzao first joined Curtis Corporation as a design engineer , and later joined General Aircraft Corporation as the chief engineer.

And Wang Zhu went to Seattle, joined the Boeing Company, which was not large at that time, and manufactured the "B&W—C" seaplane with Boeing founder William Boeing. The letter "W" refers to Wang Zhu. , and once this aircraft came out, it was directly ordered by the US government for 50 aircraft, which helped Boeing to successfully manufacture the first aircraft and opened up the first airmail test route for the United States.

Through the introduction of the two, after learning about this story, Cheng Nuo also sighed with emotion: "You two are really talented, one specializes in aircraft design, and the other specializes in aircraft engine design, and together they are a perfect match."

Wang Zhu was a little embarrassed, touched the back of his head and said, "It's a pity that it's just a specialization, not a specialization. Compared with those predecessors in the United States, it's still far behind."

Although he doesn't know the specific design and construction of aircraft, Cheng Nuo still has some research on the development history of modern aircraft. He shook his head and said, "The Wright Brothers and Curtiss only rely on actual experience to design the aircraft, which is not very advanced. theory.

According to my understanding of American university education, factories such as Curtiss, Boeing, Wright, Douglas, etc. did not have designs based on scientific theories until MIT aerospace engineering graduates. However, there are not many such talents in the United States now. , You are already the best among them, don't belittle yourself.

But you can still thank these American companies. After the practice of their platforms, you have a good foundation, and it is more feasible to return to China to open factories and build machines. "

Picking up the blueprint of the plane from the grass, Cheng Nuo held both sides and said seriously: "So the design of this plane of yours is the most advanced at the moment, and based on the data alone, it has already surpassed that of Boeing.

We don't want to be chasers, but we must be leaders! "

Seeing the excitement of the two of them, Cheng Nuo was suddenly puzzled.

"According to reason, with your education background, skills and work experience, the government must welcome you very much. Why did you come to me?"

This sentence poured cold water on the heads of the two of them, and they felt helpless after looking at each other.

"We are also forced to be helpless."

(End of this chapter)