The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Chapter 238: Defeat the opponent with dignity [Please subscribe and vote]

In fact, the manufacturing difficulty of passenger aircraft is lower than that of military transport aircraft.

Because there are many more factors to consider for military aircraft than for passenger aircraft.

Military transport aircraft have requirements for flight speed, maneuverability and even stealth. They also need to carry weapons, reconnaissance equipment and other equipment, and their design requirements are more complex than those of passenger aircraft.

Another thing is that military aircraft often face harsher environments. For example, military transport aircraft need to have the ability to take off and land at simple airports, and need to consider more realities of flying in harsh environments.

This places higher demands on the aircraft's structural strength, cabin safety, etc.

Of course, there are also requirements for passenger planes.

There are actually only three most important requirements for passenger aircraft:
One is safety and the other is economy.

Another one is comfort.

For example, military aircraft may pay less attention to the issue of engine noise reduction.

But passenger aircraft need to take this into serious consideration.

After Zhang Zhipeng led his team to develop the Y-20, it became much easier to manufacture the C919 according to the drawings.

He personally went to the front-line manufacturing workshops to solve problems on site with engineers and speed up the manufacturing of various fuselage parts.

The entire Magic City Aircraft Manufacturing Plant revolves around this one aircraft.

It only took about a month to build the first prototype of C919.

Compared with the Y-20, this plane is much more beautiful.

The Y-20 is short and thick, while the C919 has a slender body with graceful and beautiful lines.

The Y-20 adopts a high-wing design, that is, the wing is on the upper part of the fuselage.

The C919 uses a lower monoplane wing, with the wing on the lower side of the fuselage.

The reason for this design is that the lower wing is relatively low to the ground, which makes it easier for ground maintenance personnel to work.

Passenger planes fly almost every day.

After each landing, a maintenance inspection is required.

If the wing was on the upper side of the fuselage, it would be too high and inconvenient to maintain.

Military transport aircraft use high wings purely for the purpose of taking off and landing at simple airports.

The wings are relatively high, so the engine is relatively high from the ground and will not scrape the ground and cause the plane to crash.

After the first C919 is produced, it will undergo various rigorous tests and inspections as usual.

At this time, Boeing was still in tough negotiations on investing in building a factory in China.

They want more.

They still have hope.

For Amei's elites, they are the model of not crying until they see the coffin and not turning back until they hit the wall.

They always think that if they can be a little tougher and create some cards out of thin air, they can make the other side give in.

They will only give in and reach an agreement when they have exhausted all their tricks and conspiracies, and have suffered heavy losses and have found it impossible to make the other party surrender.

Now, Boeing has only one request: they hope that China can cancel its own passenger aircraft development plan.

Their reason is: Boeing will build the world's largest aircraft manufacturing plant in China, which will benefit China.

Then China must also show some sincerity so that cooperation can be achieved.

After the first prototype of C919 was built, Li Yuntong, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, soon came to Shanghai for inspection.

As the person in charge of civil aviation, Li Yuntong was naturally very concerned about the development of China's first passenger aircraft.

Li Yuntong actually had no idea what to do.

He felt that if China wanted to build its own civil airliner, it would definitely take a relatively long time.

This time should be calculated as at least 10 years.

If what he thinks is true, then the introduction of Boeing will be a more urgent matter.

After all, China’s current shortage of civil aviation passenger aircraft is really too large.

There are currently only two civil aviation airliner giants in the world.

Airbus has been hit.

At this time, the only option is broadcasting.

No wonder Boeing is so tough.

Li Yuntong came to the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory. When he saw the beautiful narrow-body single-aisle large aircraft in front of him, he was greatly shocked.

No way?
In such a short time, they actually built a large passenger plane?

This is too fast.

However, considering that Zhang Zhipeng had previously led the development of the Y-20 at a very fast pace, Li Yuntong felt that there was nothing strange about it.

"Comrade Zhipeng, this plane looks very beautiful."

Li Yuntong said to Zhang Zhipeng.

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said, "The appearance is indeed very good."

Zhang Zhipeng briefly introduced to Li Yuntong a series of parameters of the aircraft.

This aircraft is a typical medium-sized mainline aircraft.

The aircraft has a total length of 38.9 meters, a wingspan of 35.8 meters and a height of 11.95.
The aircraft has an empty weight of 45.7 tons and a maximum load capacity of 19 tons.

The cabin height of this aircraft can reach 2 meters, which looks quite spacious and comfortable.

The passenger capacity can reach 150 people.

The aircraft adopts advanced aerodynamic design and propulsion system, and the materials used in its manufacture are all lightweight and strong alloys.

While listening to Zhang Zhipeng's introduction, Li Yuntong was accompanied by him to visit the entire aircraft.

Of course, the aircraft has not yet undergone the final cabin facilities installation.

But Li Yuntong is an expert after all, and after his visit, he made a comparison.

Based on what we have seen so far, this domestically-produced passenger aircraft is even more advanced than the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737.

Because the C919 uses a large number of advanced electronic equipment and radar equipment.

Aircraft manufacturing materials are also relatively advanced.

Most importantly, the aircraft is powered by the domestically produced WS-7 engine, which is specially designed for this model of passenger aircraft.

The engine adopts a large bypass ratio and has a very high design efficiency.

Of course, the specific fuel economy can only be seen after test flights.

Li Yuntong was very emotional.

In the past, domestically produced aircraft had a huge shortcoming in the area of ​​engines.

But now?

It’s easy to come up with a new type of engine.

"Comrade Zhipeng, is this WS-7 engine newly developed?"

"Then I'm afraid we need to conduct a comprehensive test on the engine before we can do it?"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said, "This engine can't be considered a brand new engine, right?"

"It is actually developed based on the WS-8, with some smaller dimensions and improved bypass ratio."

"Overall, I don't think it's necessary to test it extensively."

Li Yuntong was very happy and he talked about the current negotiations with Boeing.

"Boeing is getting tougher now. They probably think that it is impossible for us to produce our own domestically produced aircraft in such a short time, haha!"

After Li Yuntong finished explaining the relevant situation, he said to Zhang Zhipeng.

Zhang Zhipeng said: "Then we can now release the news that our first civil airliner C919 prototype has been successfully developed and is being tested in full swing!"

“I believe they will panic after seeing this news.”

Li Yuntong nodded and said, "That makes sense!"

"Then let's get the CCTV reporter over to interview us right away."

Li Yuntong personally contacted CCTV's editor-in-chief Gao Xiaodong.

When Gao Xiaodong heard what Li Yuntong said, he was also very excited.

Domestically produced large transport aircraft has been launched.

The maximum take-off weight of this large transport aircraft is as high as about 230 tons.

Gao Xiaodong was greatly shocked at that time.

Things are good now. Large transport aircraft have just come out not long ago, and civil airliner aircraft have been developed.

This is good news one after another!

So inspiring.

Gao Xiaodong immediately asked reporter Li Xiaoming to set off for the Magic City for an interview.

Such big news will definitely be on the 7 o'clock news.

Gao Xiaodong arrived at the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Plant, visited the C919, and interviewed Zhang Zhipeng.

During the interview, both parties drafted the content of the interview.

The content of the interview and the information revealed are actually the following:

The C919 competes with the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320.

The C919 is scheduled to start test flights in a month.

All parameters, indicators and manufacturing levels of C919 adopt the world's highest standards.

C919 is about to start a pre-order campaign, which will mainly target the domestic market.

The C919 will begin commercial flights in two years at the latest. The aircraft will strive to achieve large-scale production capacity in two years, with an annual production capacity of at least 200 aircraft.

If these news were released, each one would be extremely explosive.

During the interview, Li Xiaoming was deeply excited.

Li Xiaoming himself is a veteran reporter of CCTV.

He has worked at CCTV for more than 20 years.

He has a vivid memory of how poor and weak the country was in the early 80s!

He also envied and yearned for the Lizard Front.

Of course, although he once admired foreign things, deep down he still hoped that his country would become better.

Li Xiaoming remembers that China's rise seemed to have started in 90.

In 95, it was not very obvious.

But in the following years, there has been rapid progress.

Large aircraft, that is the Zenith technology controlled by the Lizardmen!
Now, it is about to be completely conquered.

After the interview, Li Xiaoming immediately flew back to Beijing to edit the news.

When editing, he naturally used all domestic equipment.

This made him sigh again: around 95, the editing equipment of foot basins was still highly praised and regarded as a synonym for high-end products.

What about now? The TV program editing equipment in the foot basin has long been abandoned.

After editing and producing the news about the successful development of the domestically-made passenger aircraft C919, Li Xiaoming went to meet the editor-in-chief Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong was also very excited after reading the news reported by Li Xiaoming.

"It seems that our passenger plane should be quite good." Gao Xiaodong said with a smile.

Li Xiaoming nodded and said, "I think the standard of this first passenger aircraft should have surpassed Boeing's 737 series."

"Our C919 uses the most advanced technologies in the world."

Gao Xiaodong said: "Then let's report it to the higher-ups. If nothing unexpected happens, this news will be broadcast on the 7 o'clock news tonight."

This news was reported to the relevant authorities.

After reading the news, the leaders of the competent department thought it was an exciting thing. They did not dare to delay and immediately reported the good news to the top leaders.

In fact, the leaders now already know that the prototype of the domestically-produced passenger aircraft has been produced.

The breakthrough in the aviation field means that domestic products are continuing to sprint towards the high-end field.

This is a great thing!

The leader immediately gave personal instructions: to include the country’s commendation to the R&D team in the news.

Because, the national award is equivalent to the state endorsing the domestically-produced large civil aircraft!
That evening, the news was broadcast on the 7 o'clock news headlines.

Yes, this news made the headlines.

This is because, at the beginning of this news, there was a picture of the leader personally signing a commendation order, announcing the commendation for the entire research and development team of the domestically produced large passenger aircraft C919.

This news is quite long.

In addition to showing the clear appearance and interior of the C919, the footage mainly features an interview with Zhang Zhipeng.

Zhang Zhipeng also revealed a lot of important information during the interview.

At the end of the interview, he said: "The biggest goal of our Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Plant is to strive to become the world's most important manufacturer of civil airliners and transport aircraft within 10 years."

"We must never allow foreign aircraft manufacturers to make excessive profits in our country again!"

"It is definitely not a good thing that the world's civil aviation market is dominated by two giants. We hope to reorganize this market!"

After this news was broadcast, it naturally quickly became a sensation across the country.

Ordinary people are very excited and proud of their motherland's growing strength.

At this time, Boeing's vice president Evra was still in China.

He is still negotiating with China's investment promotion department and believes that he can definitely get more favorable terms.

His biggest dream is to make China continue to accept the advice that it is better to buy than to make.

Also, he hopes that China can terminate the research and development of civil airliners.

He was confident that his demands would eventually be accepted by China.

That evening, he had dinner with several American diplomats in a restaurant.

A group of people were toasting each other and drinking happily.

These people are talking nonsense, believing that their countries can disrupt China's development with the technology of remote farming.

They even daydream about the glory of the Qing Dynasty and imagine being able to relive the old days in the future.

At 7 o'clock, the TV hanging on the wall in the box started broadcasting the 7 o'clock news.

Nowadays, LCD or plasma TVs are becoming more and more popular.

Of course, at this time, such TVs are still quite expensive abroad.

The news began at 7 o'clock, and Evra and others who were eating began to watch the news while eating.

However, the first piece of news silenced everyone in the room.

Because this news was reporting the successful development of China's domestically-produced large civil aviation aircraft.

Evra was so surprised that his eyes almost popped out.

He never dreamed that he was looking forward to strangling China's domestically produced large aircraft in the cradle!

I didn’t expect that the other party has already developed a large aircraft?

Moreover, looking at the appearance of this plane, it is really beautiful and there is no problem with the design!
The interior also shows the fine workmanship.

The parameters that Zhang Zhipeng introduced during the interview also made Evra feel nervous.

The Boeing 737 can be said to be Boeing's most mainstream model at present.

It can accommodate one hundred and fifty to sixty people and is very fuel efficient.

This is the main model purchased by airlines all over the world.

But now?

China has developed a damn replacement for this main model?

This is definitely a bad thing for Boeing.

Amei in the private room became as quiet as a chicken.

They naturally know what that means.

Large aircraft can be said to be the face of Aramco’s high-end manufacturing industry!

The final facade!

Now, is this facade also going to be demolished?

If this storefront is demolished, it will definitely be a huge blow to Amei's manufacturing industry.

"These Chinese are so infuriating! Are they going to take away all our industries? Don't they want to leave us any chance to survive?"

"We must put pressure on them and make them give up their plans to develop large civil aviation passenger aircraft!"

"Oh my God! This is really too scary! If we let them continue, we will most likely end up in an irreversible situation!"

……

The people in the private room were discussing something almost crazily.

However, apart from uttering some harsh words, they actually have no other options.

Evra's mood was like falling from the peak to the bottom of the valley.

He originally thought he had already won the battle.

Unfortunately, the appearance of the C919 prototype gave him a slap in the face.

After venting their anger and dissatisfaction, the Afghan and American diplomats who had dinner with Evra calmed down.

They began to offer suggestions and advice, hoping to help Evra overcome this difficult time.

Some of them believe that the C919 launched by China is just a gimmick, which is intended to force Boeing to make concessions in future cooperation.

Others suggested that the Chinese people should be mobilized to oppose the development of large aircraft. As for the rhetoric, aren’t there ready-made ones?
After the dinner, Evra returned to his residence.

He immediately contacted the headquarters.

Evra reported the news that China had produced the prototype of the C919 civil airliner.

Boeing President Shulman sighed and said, "It seems that our guess was wrong."

"We always thought that China was playing some tricks on us."

"What about actually? Actually, they are all blatant conspiracy!"

"It seems that China's large civil aviation aircraft are really becoming a major concern for us."

Evra smiled bitterly and said, "So, what should we do now? Should we still build an aircraft manufacturing plant in China?"

Shulman snorted and said, "Why not?"

"We built factories in the past and significantly reduced our own production costs, which is also a good thing for us!"

"Don't ask for any additional conditions. Just hurry up and prepare for the investment and construction of the factory."

"We must localize production in their countries, and then engage in a price war with them, and use price war to defeat them in their own country!"

"Everything is going to be accelerated!"

Evra thought of a question: "Mr. Shulman, I want to know if we can disrupt public opinion in China and encourage their own people to oppose the development of their domestic civil aviation large passenger aircraft?"

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