The Red War God of Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 364 The Father of Chinese Helicopters

经过1939和1940年两年的努力，在汽轮发电机组上，已经可以量产10万千瓦规格以下的10余个品种；水轮发电机组，也可以量产5万千瓦规模以下的20余个品种。

As for units of more than 50 kilowatts, or even units of more than 130 million kilowatts in later generations, even if the meritorious system has such technology, it will be very difficult to produce in reality.The advancement of technology and the proficiency of production technology must have a process.

This is why Wu Aihua did not list hydropower development as a priority in the three-year Development Outline.In the development of hydropower resources in the past three years, the state has clearly ordered that hydropower stations can only be built on the secondary tributaries of various rivers, and most of these hydropower stations are small hydropower stations with a capacity of less than 5 kilowatts.

The fourth achievement worthy of special mention is the successful development of the armed real helicopter.

This armed helicopter, which was successfully tested on September 1940, 9 and passed the battlefield exercise inspection, was directly named "Falcon 1" armed helicopter by Wu Aihua. According to different uses, it is divided into abcd and many models.

The basic data of the Falcon 1: 5.5 tons in the air, 11.2 tons fully loaded (the empty to gross weight ratio is less than 0.5), powered by a turboshaft engine with 1 horsepower, the rotor diameter is 1275 meters, the maximum speed is 8.36 kilometers, and the latest range is up to 290 kilometers, a ceiling of 800 meters, and a combat radius of up to 6000 kilometers. It has a built-in fixed-rotating improved squad machine gun and a crew of one person; the "Falcon 250a" attack helicopter is equipped with an 1mm recoilless gun, equipped with With 1 tons of various ammunition, the "Falcon 1c" transport helicopter can carry 1 soldiers in a squad and their normal combat material consumption for a week.

In the history of helicopters in the world, the turboshaft engine is called the symbol of "the second generation of helicopters". This kind of power plant that was commonly used by helicopters in the world until the end of the 20s has not changed much until today.Prior to this, the helicopter power source has always been a piston engine.

Wu Aihua was already quite clear about the history of helicopter development in the world, but if he didn’t know about it after the time travel, there were systems and intelligent robots with system exits to consult.The basic performance of this "Falcon 1" even completely surpassed the Z-1994 (Z-8) helicopter that was finalized and produced by the later Chinese dynasty in 8.Of course, the actual technical indicators of this helicopter are only roughly equivalent to the level of American helicopters around 1960.

It is worth noting that the appearance of this helicopter is different from other weapons and equipment.For other equipment, there are "real objects" for researchers to imitate and learn, and of course there are paper technical materials; while the research work on helicopters, except for paper technical data, is a "blank".

The reason why China's armed helicopters have achieved such an achievement has to be said of one person, a man named Zhu Jiaren who was called "the father of Chinese helicopters" by later generations.

In 1900, Zhu Jiaren was born in Hanshou, Xibin, Dongting Lake. His father, Zhu Xi, was the commander of the Second Division, the guard envoy of Jiangning, Jiangsu, and a lieutenant general. In 1920, Zhu Jiaren went to the United States to study after graduating from Soochow High School. In 1926, he graduated from the Department of Aeronautics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.He successively worked in Chicago Xishi Aircraft Manufacturing Plant (later became Hughes Corporation), Detroit Waraghi Aircraft Manufacturing Plant, and Kansas American Eagle Aircraft Manufacturing Plant.

In the autumn of 1928, Zhu Jiaren returned to China and served at the Shanghai Hongqiao Aviation Factory as a captain and technician, and was later promoted to a major technician.Participated in the development of the "Gong Delong No. 1929" trainer aircraft designed by Rao Guozhang and others, which was successfully tested in [-].

In the spring of 1930, Zhu Jiaren proposed the desire to manufacture aircraft, and was supported by Chen Tiaoyuan, who gave him a financial aid of 2 yuan, and then obtained permission from the Nanjing Aeronautical Administration.Since then, Zhu Jiaren began to develop aircraft. In the spring of 1937, Zhu Jiaren's aircraft manufacturing was completed.Named "Suzhou".In the same year, he went to Luoyang to serve as the director of the third aircraft repair factory.

If the original historical trend is followed, in July 1939, Zhu Jiaren will be the director of the Machinery Division of the Aviation Committee. In April 7, he served as the director of the First Aircraft Manufacturing Plant, based in Kunming. In 1941, Zhu Jiaren began to develop helicopters when the development of helicopters was just beginning in the world. In the autumn of 4, the "Hummingbird Type A single-seat helicopter" was successfully developed. This is the first helicopter developed by China itself. Zhu Jiaren is also known as the father of China's helicopters. In July 1944, the "Hummingbird" B-type helicopter was successfully developed, surpassing similar helicopters in the world.In September of the same year, he was transferred to Taichung, Taiwan as the director of the Air Force's Third Aircraft Factory. On December 1945, 1948, Zhu Jiaren retired. In August 7, Zhu Jiaren went to the United States at his own expense to inspect the aviation industry. After returning to Taiwan, he manufactured a hovercraft in Taichung. In 9, Zhu Jiaren moved to the United States. July 1962, 12.Zhu Jiaren passed away in the United States.

The real turning point in Zhu Jiaren's fate should have been in 1937, when the National Defense Forces fought against Japan in Pingjin, and the National Defense Forces Air Force achieved great results.Although the National Defense Force's aircraft had achieved unprecedented results in Fujian Province before, that was bombing ground targets, which does not mean that the National Defense Force's aircraft must be great.

In the Battle of Pingjin, the Air Force of the National Defense Forces not only bombed the Japanese ground targets, but also carried out aerial combat with the Japanese First Flying Group stationed in Northeast China and the Second Flying Group stationed in Tianjin, and achieved an overwhelming victory.As an aircraft expert, Zhu Jiaren naturally knows that the Chinese Air Force's victory over the Japanese Air Force is definitely not due to the fact that the technology of the Chinese pilots is superior to that of the Japanese pilots, and it is even less likely that there is nothing like the will to fight; the Chinese Air Force can defeat the Japanese Air Force, only one Possibly, that is, the Chinese Air Force's aircraft are ahead of the Japanese aircraft.

However, Zhu Jiaren, who is an expert in aircraft manufacturing, knows better that at present, only the UK, France, the United States, Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union are the only powerful countries in the world that can be called aircraft manufacturing powers, while China is basically in the stage of learning to manufacture aircraft.

So, the question is, where did the combat aircraft of the Chinese National Defense Force come from?

Zhu Jiaren asked the Kuomintang Air Force for instructions and asked to go to Fujian Province for inspection, but at that time Chiang Kai-shek was worried that Zhu Jiaren would not return, so he did not agree.However, Zhu Jiaren's move was grasped by Hao Yong's Intelligence Bureau. After asking Wu Aihua for instructions, the "Amorous Style Bureau" intentionally or unintentionally sent Zhu Jiaren a lot of advanced aircraft technical information, so that the third aircraft repairer in Luoyang Zhu Jiaren, the director of the factory, was overjoyed. At the end of 1937, Zhu Jiaren took advantage of the opportunity to go home to visit relatives, disappeared from the sight of Dai Li's Military Control Bureau, and came to the Aircraft Factory of the National Defense Forces in the mountains of Longyan.

As soon as Zhu Jiaren entered the aircraft factory of the National Defense Forces, he was appointed as the assistant to the factory director. This is a very important position, which involves management, production, design and other departments.

The internal structure of the early enterprise of the National Defense Forces was established completely in accordance with the standards of the modern enterprise system of later generations. The production lines, all those that have the conditions to engage in assembly line production, are all set up on the assembly line.As for the technology, it is far beyond the existing aircraft production technology in the world today, and Zhu Jiaren estimates that the time ahead is more than 10 years on average.

In July 1938, Zhu Jiaren was appointed as the vice president of the Aviation Research Institute of the National Defense Forces and the director of the Helicopter Research Institute, with the rank of major general (historically, Zhu Jiaren was awarded the rank of major general in Taiwan in 7).In other words, in July 1962, Wu Aihua began to study helicopters and armed helicopters.

However, although the Helicopter Research Institute of the National Defense Forces is newly established, there are more than 10 aviation scientists with a higher level than Zhu Jiaren, and more than 20 graduates who graduated from foreign countries majoring in aircraft manufacturing in recent years.If the personnel surprised Zhu Jiaren, then the technical reserves of this newly established research institute surprised Zhu Jiaren even more.

In fact, these materials are "copied" one by one by intelligent robots from their professional knowledge and design concepts. The robot messed up these materials, and some of them were only half. However, for Zhu Jiaren, who has mastered the most basic principles of aircraft manufacturing and even made relatively advanced aircraft, these materials are at most equivalent to those in traditional Chinese culture. The question of "guessing lantern riddles" is that the laws of lantern riddles have long been mastered, and new conclusions are only deduced from the laws.

These materials were in the hands of Zhu Jiaren, and soon turned into industrial designs one by one. In February 1939, Zhu Jiaren led his team to successfully trial-produce the first helicopter powered by a piston engine. , as the first helicopter on Chinese soil, surpassed the VS-2 helicopter manufactured by American Sikorsky in the summer of the same year.Because when the improved vs-1 of Sikos vs-300 was purchased by the U.S. Army in large quantities, its power was only 300 horsepower, its cruising speed was only 316 kilometers, its range was 185 kilometers, its ceiling was 109 meters, and its total weight was 320 kilograms; The relevant figures of the aircraft are 1524 horsepower power, 1152 kilometers speed, 250 kilometers range, 147 kilometers ceiling, and 400 kilograms total weight.

However, even though the performance of this aircraft is so superior, Wu Aihua just named it "Hummingbird Type 1". plan.

In Zhu Jiaren's view, this helicopter already has air combat capability. It is equipped with a squad machine gun or carries bombs. It still poses a strong threat to the ground troops. But why doesn't Commander-in-Chief Wu equip the troops with this weapon?Zhu Jiaren came back from the United States with a pure heart, hoping that his research could make China stronger.Therefore, Zhu Jiaren didn't quite understand Commander-in-Chief Wu's decision.