I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

In Texas, Lao Ma had just returned home. When he opened Twitter, he saw an endless stream of new messages. @He had an unusually large number of people.

Apparently, Director Lin, who was one round younger than him, had come up with something new.

After flipping through it a few times, I found the screenshot of Lin Ju's Weibo. After reading it, Lao Ma narrowed his eyes slightly.

Actually planning to fly into space on his own space shuttle?

Are all Chinese people so radical?

But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem very radical. H1 has carried out five manned space flights and more unmanned flights, all of which were successful without failure. It has proven its reliability in the aerospace industry.

In addition to being surprised, Lao Ma also felt yearning and a little jealous.

The second-generation Manned Dragon spacecraft is still under development. Although it is not difficult to obtain a manned license certificate from NACA, it may take another year to undertake the mission.

He also wants to go to heaven!

The cost of a single launch of the Dragon spacecraft is very expensive. The cost of several unmanned flights and then several manned flights is something that specaX cannot afford now. Moreover, the reliability of manned flights of its own spacecraft...

Lao Ma is usually confident, but he is still cautious about manned spaceflight. Unless the Dragon spacecraft has flown seven or eight times and stabilized, he will not dare.

He sent a short tweet: "Space belongs to the most courageous people", and then sent three pictures of the Falcon Heavy ready for launch. Let's take a look at the rocket, family.

SpecaX has become popular again recently, and seems to be regaining its position as the strongest private aerospace company, because the Falcon Heavy has a maximum LEO capacity of 69 tons, making it the world's strongest active rocket.

Xinyuan Company's Xinyuan 2 will be ranked second with 45 tons, followed by Atlas V, Ariane 5, Delta 4 and other rockets with transport capacities of around 28 tons.

The most powerful rocket of the Chinese Space Administration is still the 14-ton Long March 2F. However, when the Long March 10 is born, it will rank first in the world with a LEO transport capacity of 110 tons. The SLS Block 1 rocket used by Aramco to land on the moon has a low-Earth orbit transport capacity. 95 tons, but the cargo version Block 2 has a capacity of 140 tons.

The Long March 10 is expected to make its first flight around August this year, the Falcon Heavy is scheduled to make its first flight on May 25, and the SLS is expected to make its first flight in December.

However, two heavyweight players will appear this year: Xinyuan No. 2A and Xinyuan No. 3.

The core stage and booster of the first Xinyuan-2A have been manufactured. The core stage has been strengthened to withstand the thrust of the booster. In May, it will fly to Qiongzhou three times to assemble the first test launch. It is expected that The time is May 29th.

The Xinyuan-2A's 135-ton capacity will remain No. 1 until the launch of SLS Block 2, which will have to wait until at least 2019. Before that, the Xinyuan-3 with a 247-ton LEO capacity has already flown.

Therefore, Falcon Heavy’s world record can only be maintained for four days~

Time is running out for the Falcon Heavy.

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On March 14, the construction of Hushan Airport started, 80 kilometers away from the Xinyuan B-level base.

Hushan Airport will provide flying venues for multiple flying clubs and skydiving clubs, and will include a large valley next to it as a flying area. The area is particularly large, not too far from the city, but can minimize flight noise. .

The idea of ​​Hushan Airport originally came from Lin Ju. The airport in the B-level base is not small, but it is difficult to manage external students. The first batch of 50 students reached flight hours and the airspace became difficult to manage. The follow-up is really unimaginable. .

Don’t think that 50 aircraft is a small number. On March 10, at the beginning of the new training period of the flight school, 50 students and 11 instructors who were already able to fly formed a formation, and 61 aircraft formed a super large formation to pass through the field at high speed.

Even though they did not make any flying movements, 61 aircraft still formed a black cloud, which left everyone with a considerable psychological shock.

You must know that the wingspan of the Caiyun trainer aircraft is 12.2 meters. The maximum number of aircraft in a four-row formation is 35. The distance between the formations is maintained at 50 meters, and the maximum width is two kilometers~

So I proposed to the local government to pick a remote place to build a new airport and use it as a flight school.

This matter was reported to all levels, and then people from the province came.

The province said, let’s build it bigger, six horizontally and four vertically, and bulldoze a mountain to build a super large airport, but the specifications are very low, anyway, all the aircraft taking off and landing are small aircraft, even the Meteor high-education aircraft only weighs seven or eight tons. Heavy, there is no need to have such high requirements as civil aviation airports.

The eight proposed runways with concrete pavement are for small and medium-sized aircraft, and the two high-standard runways for jet training aircraft can be completed in five or six months.

Such an airport can accommodate three to four thousand small aircraft and is open to flying clubs across the country. With Xinyuan's freedom in the surrounding airspace, it has become the most lively flying venue in the country.

The provincial government fully invests in Hushan Airport, and each aircraft only needs to pay an annual fee according to its grade. Xinyuan Company will not receive a cent, and it will also receive 30% of the airport's revenue as dividends.

The first two simple runways for propellers can be completed in 40 days at the earliest, which also includes the time for road repairs.

Lin Ju agreed happily. There happened to be a place to put the aircraft. Shi Fei and Hong Du had already delivered 220 Caiyun primary training aircraft and were waiting on the road. This way they could save themselves money.

The Air Force turns a blind eye to this blatant power seeking. There is nothing confidential in this airspace anyway, and there are so many radars around it that they are not afraid of any surprises. They just send a few people to it on a routine basis.

Many domestic flight enthusiasts immediately saw the notice issued by the Sichuan government, which marked Hushan Airport and a large area of ​​uncontrolled airspace below 3,000 meters around it on the map, and they instantly became excited.

Immediately, a large number of flying clubs prepared to move (these clubs may only have one to three or four aircraft), and more people had the idea of ​​​​moving to Chengdu.

A small light aircraft is mostly made in China or purchased from foreign kits, because it is quite expensive even if it is not mass-produced. The cheap one is more than 100,000 yuan, and the expensive one is more than 300,000 yuan. There are quite a few people who can afford to fly it nationwide.

For them, flying into the air is the most troublesome thing, but now that there is an uncontrolled area, wouldn't it be a lot easier?

The Sichuan government is also very happy. In the future, Hushan Airport will have at least 3,000 aircraft. How many modification factories will this support, and how many people will be willing to fly? Isn’t it another tourist highlight?

It costs nothing to build Hushan Airport. The land is for nothing. The airport standards are simple. Light aircraft can take off and land on just a flat piece of open space. Just lay a layer of cement and that's it. Even high-grade ones can't go up. Where to go, and only in a small area.

On the contrary, the fifteen kilometers of road to be built at Hushan Airport in the budget will cost a lot of money, but it is not bad.

With the continuous efforts of provincial leaders, Sichuan's aerospace industry is booming at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it will become a major industrial province in the future!