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    When Yan Yuqiu led the two of them to the airport with a blushing face, Air Force Chief of Staff Yu Lei, Naval Aviation Commander Zhu Binhou, and Feng Ru, who resigned as a designer from Meteor Company and became director of the Aviation Procurement Department of the Ministry of National Defense, surrounded Yang Qiu and said something.  Two Y-3 (Albatross 1927) military transport aircraft, one after the other, have started to turn their propellers.

    After seeing the two of them, Yang Qiu said nothing. He pointed to the plane behind him and took the three of them to board the first plane.

    This is a rigid rule that prohibits more than three senior officials and military officers from riding on the same plane, so the two of them got into the second plane without any hesitation.  But after entering, I found that there were already several people on the plane, including Leng Jie.

    "Where are we going?" Yue Peng asked the pilot.

    The pilot saluted immediately when he saw Yue Peng, but did not say where he was going. He only said: "Chief of Staff, take a seat quickly, we are about to take off."

    Yue Peng was a little confused. Where did he go and even he, the chief of general staff, wanted to keep it a secret?  But he didn't ask any more questions and simply sat down and continued chatting with everyone.  The plane began to slide slowly towards the runway, and soon the first transport plane climbed into the sky. After Yue Peng's plane also took to the sky, four Falcon fighter jets caught up from the left side, protecting and accompanying the flight on both sides.  .

    Leng Jie and other young people who were flying for the first time were very curious and waved to the pilots outside from time to time. The atmosphere gradually became lively.  Yue Peng was still a little confused. Although he didn't understand flying, he could still vaguely feel that the plane was flying north. Was it going to Chengdu?

    On another transport plane, Feng Ru and three others were reporting to Yang Qiu about the aircraft bidding.  He also took out reports and photos for him to see.

    The brief conflict in Afghanistan two years ago allowed the National Defense Forces to test ground-air coordination tactics for the first time, and also made everyone understand the importance of aircraft.  After that, the Ministry of National Defense began bidding for nearly 10 types of aircraft across the country, including trainers, fighters, bombers, transport planes and seaplanes.

    China and the United States are different.  Even though low altitudes have been opened, the promotion of agricultural aircraft and aviation clubs is still very slow. Although the development of postal and air transportation is not slow, this extra staff cannot support the needs of future pilots. Therefore, Yang Qiu has formulated a detailed plan to expand sea and air transportation.  The plan prepared by the pilot.  According to the plan, at least 20,000 pilots will be retained on the domestic front line, and at least 50,000 people will receive aviation training through militia training and other methods in the next 10 years to help them obtain basic flight certificates.

    Because of this policy, the amount of this bidding and procurement is very large.  The number of biplane training aircraft with the greatest demand alone is as high as 6,318, and the total purchase scale of all aircraft will reach more than 15,000.  Of course, this is not one year's purchases, but the entire purchase amount for the next five years.  Such a large deal naturally attracted countless attention. In addition to the three major aircraft manufacturing companies, many small aircraft manufacturers such as Chengdu's Sikorsky Company also joined the competition and came up with a total of more than 40 plans and verification machines.

    "This is the list of those who have entered the second round of test flights. This is the training aircraft" Feng Ru sat next to Yang Qiu.  This historical aviation pioneer was prohibited from flying by Yang Qiu himself. After seeing the profound aviation skills of Wang Zhu and others, he resigned from his job five years ago and went to Southwest University to study aviation.  After graduation, he did not return to Meteor Company, but was hired by the Ministry of National Defense as an aviation technical consultant, responsible for bidding, procurement and technical guidance.

    The report he gave to Yang Qiu was about the companies and aircraft that had entered the second round of testing.  Judging from the report, it took two years of experiments and testing.  Integrating hundreds of data machine technologies, the three super powerful aircraft manufacturers of Meteor, Airbus and Thor are still going strong, and the company of Sikorsky, a former Russian designer who became a Chinese national, actually successfully entered the seaplane market.  It's a bit surprising.

    If the first round is an audition, then the second round of testing is actually the final test flight and improvement before the individual aircraft is finalized.  Therefore, the aircraft listed in the report are basically the models that have been chosen and will be ordered after all experiments are completed.

    Raytheon Company defeated Meteor on the training aircraft and finally won.  The scaled-down White Stork two-seat bi-wing trainer aircraft based on the Yun-5 is the least suspenseful. Its control, low-speed, hovering, rolling and other capabilities are among the best in the world.

    But the data and photos of the latter types of aircraft made Yang Qiu secretly scratch his head.

    The requirements of the Ministry of National Defense for this procurement are very detailed and demanding.  Take a bomber as an example. The no-laden range must be able to ensure a direct flight from Guangzhou to Natuna (2,200 kilometers) without refueling. The maximum bomb load is 3,000 kilograms, the range with a 1-ton bomb is 1,200 kilometers, and the magazine is required to be able to carry two 1,200 kilogram large bombs at the same time.  , it is required to be able to mount auxiliary fuel tanks, at least 4 self-defense machine guns, etc.

    If nothing else, just the requirement to fly direct from Guangzhou to Natuna made many small companies completely despair. In the end, only Meteor and Airbus were left in the second round.  The number given by the Air Force to the former is H-5. However, from the photos, the appearance of this H-5 looks very much like the famous JU88. However, the range is longer, which should be due to the sacrifice of structure and protection.  Adoption flowStar Company's own air-cooled Comet 900 engine can reach 960 horsepower per unit, with a maximum level flight speed of 430 kilometers and a maximum bomb load of 2,900 kilograms.

    After the successful development of Airbus' twin Mustangs, Meteor Company, led by Wang Zhu, also began to study a similar double-layer structure air-cooled piston engine. After several years of hard work, it finally came up with a Comet engine with comparable technology, which not only used supercharging and twin  Spark plugs and other technologies, and also developed technology that can directly inject methane into the cylinder in emergencies.  The most important thing is that the company strictly followed Yang Qiu's requirements and innovated while ensuring that the engine interface was common to the same model of Twin Mustangs, and even some parts were interchangeable.

    This is a huge improvement!  This means that although the two factories compete fiercely and each has their own know-how in engines, they have both engraved the concept of standardization into every aspect of R&D and production.

    Airbus's serial number is H-6. Compared with the Meteor Company, the oldest company in the country, this company that Yang Qiu specially used a large number of drawings and technology to catalyze has not only finally successfully developed twin Mustang engines, but also has advanced technology on large single-wing metal aircraft.  Strong, kc-1 has become a world famous brand.  Yang Qiu originally thought they would come up with a bomber similar to the American B-18, because the B-18 was improved from the DC-2.  And dc-2 is now kc-1.  But when he saw the photo, he was a little dumbfounded, because the appearance of the bomber Zhou Houkun took out was very similar to the French "Leor¨¦ and Olivier leo 451" bomber in the parallel world.  For the first time, the H-shaped lift double vertical tail design is used on a domestic aircraft.

    Because the 1,200-horsepower engine is still under test, the H-6 also uses a 960-horsepower twin Mustang 2 engine. The maximum speed is not as good as the H-5, only 400 kilometers, but the range is increased to 2,500 kilometers due to the H-type lift twin vertical tails, and the maximum bomb load is 2,800  Kilogram.  And like Meteor, it also leaves room for installing larger engines in the future from the beginning of the design.

    "From the first round of experiments, the range has basically met the requirements, except for the load capacity and speed. However, the 1,200-horsepower engines of Meteor and Airbus have begun trial runs. They will be put into production by the end of next year at the earliest, and the performance will be much improved by then.  As for the models of the 4-engine heavy bombers this time, they are not very ideal. Considering the lack of technology, we have discussed and prepared to postpone the bidding for the 4-engine heavy bombers for a few years." Yu Lei is the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, named after him  His "Yu Lei Turn" made him famous throughout history.  He was also the country's first bomber pilot, and it was he who led the troops to kick off the sniper battle during the Battle of Rennevale.  After so many years of painstaking research after the war and the test of Afghanistan, he has become a leading figure in domestic air control theory and bombing science.  Known as the father of air force bombing.

    But when the father of bombing introduced the new aircraft with great enthusiasm, he didn't notice that Yang Qiu looked strange.  German and French aerodynamic shapes, American engines, Chinese designers¡¯ internal structures it¡¯s all a mess, and I don¡¯t know what kind of path the Chinese aviation industry will take in the future.

    There are "multi-national version" bombers at the bottom. After Zhu Binhou introduced the sea and air fighters, Yang Qiu was no longer surprised, even though the appearance of the two finalists was so familiar.

    The first one is a single-engine fighter jet named by Raytheon after the "Snake" in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.  The technical performance and data are similar to the famous British Hurricane. It uses an 800-horsepower 12-cylinder Kunlun water-cooled engine produced in Hanyang. It is equipped with four 12.7 mm aviation machine guns. Its maximum level flight speed reaches 450 kilometers and its range is 800 kilometers.

    The second model comes from Meteor Company.  It is also named after the mythical "Li Feng", and its data except that the 4 machine guns are replaced by 12.7 mm.  The rest is similar to the early 960-horsepower Japanese Zero A6M1 fighter.

    ??Hurricane and Zero War¡­.

    Yang Qiu pinched the tip of his nose. The former is not bad. Although it is not the best, it is the most maintainable aircraft in World War II and the easiest aircraft for novices to master. These two points alone are enough!  But the latterforget it, there are still a few days until 1931, and the war is even longer, so these two models are already strong enough under the current circumstances, and they will naturally improve upon the problems they find in the future, even if  It will be too late to adjust our thinking in a few years.

    Thinking of this, Yang Qiu suppressed the words on his lips and looked at the following types of aircraft.

    The dive bomber entering the second round for final testing and modification is Meteor Company¡¯s ¡°Ghost Car¡± dive bomber. Considering that the Navy will also purchase it, it uses the same Comet 900 engine as the ¡°Li Feng¡± fighter.  It is different from the familiar dive bombers, and unlike the J87 Stuka, the wheels cannot be retracted. Instead, the wheels are retractable at the rear three points. It uses the Meteor 900 engine and is equipped with a dive speed brake and an automatic pull-up device.  , can carry a maximum of 500 kilograms of bombs.

    There is no tender for torpedo aircraft this time. The performance of the biplane torpedo aircraft currently used by the Navy is sufficient, and the production volume is not large, so there is no need to change equipment so quickly.  As for the last "Feilian" seaplane, it is completely the American Catalina PBY1 of later generations, because Sikorsky is the chief designer of this aircraft, but now he lives in Chengdu, so it is not surprising that it appears in China.Yang Qiu only glanced briefly at the transport plane behind him. In addition to the fact that the plane was starting to land, it was also because the engine technology was still insufficient.  But even with these problems, this report is still full of hope.  As long as the engines come up, the aircraft in the report will be able to reach or even surpass the level of the "predecessors" they imitated. After 20 years of hard work, a powerful and modern air force is finally taking shape.

    Yang Qiu returned the aviation report to Feng Rushi. Yue Peng and others had already landed and got out of the plane in advance. When a dam hundreds of meters high appeared in front of them, everyone was stunned.

    This is where
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